Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Diagnostic Performance of Diffusion-Weighted Steady-State Free Precession in Differential Diagnosis of Neoplastic and Benign Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures: Comparison to Diffusion-Weighted Echo-Planar Imaging

  • Shin, Jae Ho (Department of Radiology, Yeouido St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Medical College) ;
  • Jeong, Soh Yong (Department of Radiology, Yeouido St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Medical College) ;
  • Lim, Jung Hyun (Department of Radiology, Yeouido St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Medical College) ;
  • Park, Jeongmi (Department of Radiology, Yeouido St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Medical College)
  • Received : 2017.04.26
  • Accepted : 2017.07.20
  • Published : 2017.09.30
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Abstract

Purpose: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of diffusion-weighted steady-state free precession (DW-SSFP) in comparison to diffusion-weighted echo-planar imaging (DW-EPI) for differentiating the neoplastic and benign osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures. Materials and Methods: The subjects were 40 patients with recent vertebral compression fractures but no history of vertebroplasty, spine operation, or chemotherapy. They had received 3-Tesla (T) spine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), including both DW-SSFP and DW-EPI sequences. The 40 patients included 20 with neoplastic vertebral fracture and 20 with benign osteoporotic vertebral fracture. In each fracture lesion, we obtained the signal intensity normalized by the signal intensity of normal bone marrow (SI norm) on DW-SSFP and the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) on DW-EPI. The correlation between the SI norm and the ADC in each lesion was analyzed using linear regression. The optimal cut-off values for the diagnosis of neoplastic fracture were determined in each sequence using Youden's J statistics and receiver operating characteristic curve analyses. Results: In the neoplastic fracture, the median SI norm on DW-SSFP was higher and the median ADC on DW-EPI was lower than the benign osteoporotic fracture (5.24 vs. 1.30, P = 0.032, and 0.86 vs. 1.48, P = 0.041, respectively). Inverse linear correlations were evident between SI norm and ADC in both neoplastic and benign osteoporotic fractures (r = -0.45 and -0.61, respectively). The optimal cut-off values for diagnosis of neoplastic fracture were SI norm of 3.0 in DW-SSFP with the sensitivity and specificity of 90.4% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 81.0-99.0) and 95.3% (95% CI: 90.0-100.0), respectively, and ADC of 1.3 in DW-EPI with the sensitivity and specificity of 90.5% (95% CI: 80.0-100.0) and 70.4% (95% CI: 60.0-80.0), respectively. Conclusion: In 3-T MRI, DW-SSFP has comparable sensitivity and specificity to DW-EPI in differentiating the neoplastic vertebral fracture from the benign osteoporotic vertebral fracture.

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