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Fat fractions from high-resolution 3D radial Dixon MRI for predicting metastatic axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer patients. / Buus, Thomas Winther; Sivesgaard, Kim; Fris, Tanja Linde; Christiansen, Peer Michael; Jensen, Anders Bonde; Pedersen, Erik Morre.
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T1 - Fat fractions from high-resolution 3D radial Dixon MRI for predicting metastatic axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer patients
AU - Buus, Thomas Winther
AU - Sivesgaard, Kim
AU - Fris, Tanja Linde
AU - Christiansen, Peer Michael
AU - Jensen, Anders Bonde
AU - Pedersen, Erik Morre
N1 - © 2020 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Purpose: To assess diagnostic performance of fat fractions (FF) from high-resolution 3D radial Dixon MRI for differentiating metastatic and non-metastatic axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer patients.Method: High-resolution 3D radial Dixon MRI was prospectively performed on 1.5 T in 70 biopsy-verified breast cancer patients. 35 patients were available for analysis with histopathologic and imaging data. FF images were calculated as fat / in-phase. Two radiologists measured lymph node FF and assessed morphological features in one ipsilateral and one contralateral lymph node in consensus. Diagnostic performance of lymph node FF and morphological criteria were compared using histopathology as reference.Results: 22 patients had metastatic axillary lymph nodes. Mean lymph node FF were 0.20 ± 0.073, 0.31 ± 0.079, and 0.34 ± 0.15 (metastatic, non-metastatic ipsi- and non-metastatic contralateral lymph nodes, respectively). Metastatic lymph node FF were significantly lower than non-metastatic ipsi- (p < 0.001) and contralateral lymph nodes (p < 0.001). Area under the receiver operating characteristics curve for lymph node FF was 0.80 compared to 0.76 for morphological criteria (p = 0.29). Lymph node FF yielded sensitivity 0.91, specificity 0.69, positive predictive value (PPV) 0.83, and negative predictive value (NPV) 0.82, while morphological criteria yielded sensitivity 0.91, specificity 0.62, PPV 0.80, and NPV 0.80 (p = 0.71). Combining lymph node FF and morphological criteria increased diagnostic performance with sensitivity 1.00, specificity 0.67, PPV 0.86, NPV 1.00, and AUC 0.83.Conclusions: Lymph node FF from high-resolution 3D Dixon images are a promising quantitative indicator of metastases in axillary lymph nodes.
AB - Purpose: To assess diagnostic performance of fat fractions (FF) from high-resolution 3D radial Dixon MRI for differentiating metastatic and non-metastatic axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer patients.Method: High-resolution 3D radial Dixon MRI was prospectively performed on 1.5 T in 70 biopsy-verified breast cancer patients. 35 patients were available for analysis with histopathologic and imaging data. FF images were calculated as fat / in-phase. Two radiologists measured lymph node FF and assessed morphological features in one ipsilateral and one contralateral lymph node in consensus. Diagnostic performance of lymph node FF and morphological criteria were compared using histopathology as reference.Results: 22 patients had metastatic axillary lymph nodes. Mean lymph node FF were 0.20 ± 0.073, 0.31 ± 0.079, and 0.34 ± 0.15 (metastatic, non-metastatic ipsi- and non-metastatic contralateral lymph nodes, respectively). Metastatic lymph node FF were significantly lower than non-metastatic ipsi- (p < 0.001) and contralateral lymph nodes (p < 0.001). Area under the receiver operating characteristics curve for lymph node FF was 0.80 compared to 0.76 for morphological criteria (p = 0.29). Lymph node FF yielded sensitivity 0.91, specificity 0.69, positive predictive value (PPV) 0.83, and negative predictive value (NPV) 0.82, while morphological criteria yielded sensitivity 0.91, specificity 0.62, PPV 0.80, and NPV 0.80 (p = 0.71). Combining lymph node FF and morphological criteria increased diagnostic performance with sensitivity 1.00, specificity 0.67, PPV 0.86, NPV 1.00, and AUC 0.83.Conclusions: Lymph node FF from high-resolution 3D Dixon images are a promising quantitative indicator of metastases in axillary lymph nodes.
U2 - 10.1016/j.ejro.2020.100284
DO - 10.1016/j.ejro.2020.100284
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 33204769
VL - 7
JO - European journal of radiology open
JF - European journal of radiology open
SN - 2352-0477
M1 - 100284
ER -