Journal
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY
Volume 83, Issue 2, Pages 391-397Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2013.11.001
Keywords
Lung; CT; MRI; Connective tissue disease; Functional imaging
Funding
- Philips Electronics Japan
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Purpose: To prospectively and directly compare oxygen-enhanced (O-2-enhanced) MRI with thin-section CT for pulmonary functional loss and disease severity assessment in connective tissue disease (CTD) patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD). Materials and methods: Thin-section CT, O-2-enhanced MRI, pulmonary function test and serum KL-6 were administered to 36 CTD patients with ILD (23 men, 13 women; mean age: 63.9 years) and nine CTD patients without ILD (six men, and three women; mean age: 62.0 years). A relative-enhancement ratio (RER) map was generated from O-2-enhanced MRI and mean relative enhancement ratio (MRER) for each subject was calculated from all ROI measurements. CT-assessed disease severity was evaluated with a visual scoring system from each of the thin-section CT data. MRER and CT-assessed disease severities of CTD patients with and without ILD were then statistically compared. To assess capability for pulmonary functional loss and disease severity assessment in CTD patients, correlations of MRER and CT-assessed disease severity with pulmonary functional parameters and serum KL-6 in all subjects were statistically determined. Results: MRER and CT-assessed disease severity showed significant differences between CTD patients with (MRER: 0.15 +/- 0.08, CT-assessed disease severity: 13.0 +/- 7.4%) and without ILD (MRER: 0.25 +/- 0.06, p = 0.0011; CT-assessed disease severity: 1.6 +/- 1.6%, p < 0.0001). MRER and CT-assessed disease severity correlated significantly with pulmonary functional parameters and serum KL-6 in all subjects (0.61 <= r <= 0.79, p < 0.05). Conclusion: O-2-enhanced MRI was found to be as useful as thin-section CT for pulmonary functional loss and disease severity assessment of CTD patients with ILD. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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