Journal
JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
Volume 50, Issue 3, Pages 910-917Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.26608
Keywords
microstructure; modeling; multiecho T2; prostate; cancer
Funding
- Cancer Research UK Funding Source: Medline
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/M020533/1EP/N021967/1EP/R006032/1] Funding Source: Medline
- National Institute for Health Research Funding Source: Medline
- UCL Graduate Research Scholarship Funding Source: Medline
- Brahm PhD Scholarship Funding Source: Medline
- Prostate Cancer UK Funding Source: Medline
- Philips Healthcare Funding Source: Medline
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Background Luminal water imaging (LWI) suffers less from imaging artifacts than the diffusion-weighted imaging used in multiparametric MRI of the prostate. LWI obtains multicompartment tissue information from a multiecho T-2 dataset. Purpose To compare a simplified LWI technique with apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) in classifying lesions based on groupings of PI-RADS v2 scores. Secondary aims were to investigate whether LWI differentiates between histologically confirmed tumor and normal tissue as effectively as ADC, and whether LWI is correlated with the multicompartment parameters of the vascular, extracellular, and restricted diffusion for cytometry in tumors (VERDICT) diffusion model. Study Type A subset of a larger prospective study. Population In all, 65 male patients aged 49-79 were scanned. Field Strength/Sequence A 32-echo T-2 and a six b-value diffusion sequence (0, 90, 500, 1500, 2000, 3000 s/mm(2)) at 3T. Assessment Regions of interest were placed by a board-certified radiologist in areas of lesion and benign tissue and given PI-RADS v2 scores. Statistical Tests Receiver operating characteristic and logistic regression analyses were performed. Results LWI classifies tissue as PI-RADS 1,2 or PI-RADS 3,4,5 with an area under curve (AUC) value of 0.779, compared with 0.764 for ADC. LWI differentiated histologically confirmed malignant from nonmalignant tissue with AUC, sensitivity, and specificity values of 0.81, 75%, and 87%, compared with 0.75, 83%, and 67% for ADC. The microstructural basis of the LWI technique is further suggested by the correspondence with the VERDICT diffusion-based microstructural imaging technique, with alpha, A(1), A(2), and LWF showing significant correlations. Data Conclusion LWI alone can predict PI-RADS v2 score groupings and detect histologically confirmed tumors with an ability similar to ADC alone without the limitations of diffusion-weighted MRI. This is important, given that ADC has an advantage in these tests as it already informs PI-RADS v2 scoring. LWI also provides multicompartment information that has an explicit biophysical interpretation, unlike ADC. Technical Efficacy: Stage 2 J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2019;50:910-917.
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