Jie Zhu1, Xiaojie Luo1, Jiayin Gao1, Saying Li1, Chunmei Li1, Min Chen2. 1. Department of Radiology, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China. 2. Department of Radiology, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China. cjr.chenmin@vip.163.com.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: To probe the feasibility and reproducibility of diffusion kurtosis tensor imaging (DKTI) in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and to apply DKTI in distinguishing the subtypes of RCC and the grades of clear cell RCC (CCRCC). METHODS: Thirty-eight patients with pathologically confirmed RCCs [CCRCC for 30 tumors, papillary RCC (PRCC) for 5 tumors and chromophobic RCC (CRCC) for 3 tumors] were involved in the study. Diffusion kurtosis tensor MR imaging were performed with 3 b-values (0, 500, 1000s/mm2) and 30 diffusion directions. The mean kurtosis (MK), axial kurtosis (Ka), radial kurtosis (Kr) values and mean diffusity (MD) for RCC and contralateral normal parenchyma were acquired. The inter-observer agreements of all DKTI metrics of contralateral renal cortex and medulla were evaluated using Bland-Altman plots. Statistical comparisons with DKTI metrics of 3 RCC subtypes and between low-grade (Furman grade I ~ II, 22 cases) and high-grade (Furman grade III ~ IV, 8 cases) CCRCC were performed with ANOVA test and Student t test separately. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses were used to compare the diagnostic efficacy of DKTI metrics for predicting nuclear grades of CCRCC. Correlations between DKTI metrics and nuclear grades were also evaluated with Spearman correlation analysis. RESULTS: Inter-observer measurements for each metric showed great reproducibility with excellent ICCs ranging from 0.81 to 0.87. There were significant differences between the DKTI metrics of RCCs and contralateral renal parenchyma, also among the subtypes of RCC. MK and Ka values of CRCC were significantly higher than those of CCRCC and PRCC. Statistical difference of the MK, Ka, Kr and MD values were also obtained between CCRCC with high- and low-grades. MK values were more effective for distinguishing between low- and high- grade CCRCC (area under the ROC curve: 0.949). A threshold value of 0.851 permitted distinction with high sensitivity (90.9%) and specificity (87.5%). CONCLUSION: Our preliminary results suggest a possible role of DKTI in differentiating CRCC from CCRCC and PRCC. MK, the principle DKTI metric might be a surrogate biomarker to predict nuclear grades of CCRCC. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ChiCTC, ChiCTR-DOD-17010833, Registered 10 March, 2017, retrospectively registered, http://www.chictr.org.cn/showproj.aspx?proj=17559 .
BACKGROUND: To probe the feasibility and reproducibility of diffusion kurtosis tensor imaging (DKTI) in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and to apply DKTI in distinguishing the subtypes of RCC and the grades of clear cell RCC (CCRCC). METHODS: Thirty-eight patients with pathologically confirmed RCCs [CCRCC for 30 tumors, papillary RCC (PRCC) for 5 tumors and chromophobic RCC (CRCC) for 3 tumors] were involved in the study. Diffusion kurtosis tensor MR imaging were performed with 3 b-values (0, 500, 1000s/mm2) and 30 diffusion directions. The mean kurtosis (MK), axial kurtosis (Ka), radial kurtosis (Kr) values and mean diffusity (MD) for RCC and contralateral normal parenchyma were acquired. The inter-observer agreements of all DKTI metrics of contralateral renal cortex and medulla were evaluated using Bland-Altman plots. Statistical comparisons with DKTI metrics of 3 RCC subtypes and between low-grade (Furman grade I ~ II, 22 cases) and high-grade (Furman grade III ~ IV, 8 cases) CCRCC were performed with ANOVA test and Student t test separately. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses were used to compare the diagnostic efficacy of DKTI metrics for predicting nuclear grades of CCRCC. Correlations between DKTI metrics and nuclear grades were also evaluated with Spearman correlation analysis. RESULTS: Inter-observer measurements for each metric showed great reproducibility with excellent ICCs ranging from 0.81 to 0.87. There were significant differences between the DKTI metrics of RCCs and contralateral renal parenchyma, also among the subtypes of RCC. MK and Ka values of CRCC were significantly higher than those of CCRCC and PRCC. Statistical difference of the MK, Ka, Kr and MD values were also obtained between CCRCC with high- and low-grades. MK values were more effective for distinguishing between low- and high- grade CCRCC (area under the ROC curve: 0.949). A threshold value of 0.851 permitted distinction with high sensitivity (90.9%) and specificity (87.5%). CONCLUSION: Our preliminary results suggest a possible role of DKTI in differentiating CRCC from CCRCC and PRCC. MK, the principle DKTI metric might be a surrogate biomarker to predict nuclear grades of CCRCC. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ChiCTC, ChiCTR-DOD-17010833, Registered 10 March, 2017, retrospectively registered, http://www.chictr.org.cn/showproj.aspx?proj=17559 .
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