Bamidele F Kammen1, Eric M Padua2, S Pinar Karakas2, R Ward Hagar3, Dave M Hitt4, Nirav K Pandya5, Taylor Chung2. 1. Department of Diagnostic Imaging, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, 747 52nd Street, Oakland, CA, 94609, USA. bkammen@mail.cho.org. 2. Department of Diagnostic Imaging, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, 747 52nd Street, Oakland, CA, 94609, USA. 3. Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, Oakland, CA, USA. 4. Philips Healthcare, Cleveland, OH, USA. 5. Department of Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, Oakland, CA, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Two-point modified Dixon (mDixon) turbo spin-echo (TSE) sequence provides an efficient, robust method of fat suppression. In one mDixon acquisition, four image types can be generated: water-only, fat-only, in-phase and opposed-phase images. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether PD mDixon TSE water-only and, by proxy, PD in-phase images generated by one acquisition can replace two conventional PD TSE sequences with and without fat suppression in routine clinical MR examination of the knee. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a retrospective study of 50 consecutive pediatric knee MR examinations. PD mDixon TSE water-only and PD fat-saturated TSE sequences (acquired in the sagittal plane with identical spatial resolution) were reviewed independently by two pediatric radiologists for homogeneity of fat suppression and detection of intra-articular pathology. Thirteen of the 50 patients underwent arthroscopy, and we used the arthroscopic results as a reference standard for the proton-density fat-saturated and proton-density mDixon results. We used the Kruskal-Wallis rank test to assess difference in fat suppression between the proton-density mDixon and proton-density fat-saturated techniques. We used kappa statistics to compare the agreement of detection of intra-articular pathology between readers and techniques. We also calculated sensitivity, specificity and accuracy between arthroscopy and MR interpretations. RESULTS: Proton-density mDixon water-only imaging showed significant improvement with the fat suppression compared with proton-density fat-saturated sequence (P=0.02). Each observer demonstrated near-perfect agreement between both techniques for detecting meniscal and ligamentous pathology and fair to substantial agreement for bone contusions, and chondral and osteochondral lesions. CONCLUSION: Two-point mDixon water-only imaging can replace conventional proton-density fat-saturated sequence. When same-plane proton-density fat-saturated and non-fat-saturated sequences are required, proton-density water-only and proton-density in-phase image types acquired in the same acquisition shorten the overall examination time while maintaining excellent intra-articular lesion conspicuity.
BACKGROUND: Two-point modified Dixon (mDixon) turbo spin-echo (TSE) sequence provides an efficient, robust method of fat suppression. In one mDixon acquisition, four image types can be generated: water-only, fat-only, in-phase and opposed-phase images. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether PD mDixon TSE water-only and, by proxy, PD in-phase images generated by one acquisition can replace two conventional PD TSE sequences with and without fat suppression in routine clinical MR examination of the knee. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a retrospective study of 50 consecutive pediatric knee MR examinations. PD mDixon TSE water-only and PD fat-saturated TSE sequences (acquired in the sagittal plane with identical spatial resolution) were reviewed independently by two pediatric radiologists for homogeneity of fat suppression and detection of intra-articular pathology. Thirteen of the 50 patients underwent arthroscopy, and we used the arthroscopic results as a reference standard for the proton-density fat-saturated and proton-density mDixon results. We used the Kruskal-Wallis rank test to assess difference in fat suppression between the proton-density mDixon and proton-density fat-saturated techniques. We used kappa statistics to compare the agreement of detection of intra-articular pathology between readers and techniques. We also calculated sensitivity, specificity and accuracy between arthroscopy and MR interpretations. RESULTS: Proton-density mDixon water-only imaging showed significant improvement with the fat suppression compared with proton-density fat-saturated sequence (P=0.02). Each observer demonstrated near-perfect agreement between both techniques for detecting meniscal and ligamentous pathology and fair to substantial agreement for bone contusions, and chondral and osteochondral lesions. CONCLUSION: Two-point mDixon water-only imaging can replace conventional proton-density fat-saturated sequence. When same-plane proton-density fat-saturated and non-fat-saturated sequences are required, proton-density water-only and proton-density in-phase image types acquired in the same acquisition shorten the overall examination time while maintaining excellent intra-articular lesion conspicuity.
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