Hepatic Fat Quantification A Prospective Comparison of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Analysis Methods for Chemical-Shift Gradient Echo Magnetic Resonance Imaging With Histologic Assessment as the Reference Standard
- Authors
- Yeom Suk Keu; YEOM, Suk keu
- Issue Date
- 6월-2012
- Publisher
- LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS WILKINS
- Keywords
- fatty liver; MR imaging; MR spectroscopy; chemical shift
- Citation
- INVESTIGATIVE RADIOLOGY, v.47, no.6, pp.368 - 375
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- INVESTIGATIVE RADIOLOGY
- Volume
- 47
- Number
- 6
- Start Page
- 368
- End Page
- 375
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/84543
- ISSN
- 0020-9996
- Abstract
- Objective: The aims of this study were to assess the confounding effects of hepatic iron deposition, inflammation, and fibrosis on hepatic steatosis (HS) evaluation by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and to assess the accuracies of MRI and MRS for HS evaluation, using histology as the reference standard.
Materials and Methods: In this institutional review board-approved prospective study, 56 patients gave informed consents and underwent chemical-shift MRI and MRS of the liver on a 1.5-T magnetic resonance scanner. To estimate MRI fat fraction (FF), 4 analysis methods were used (dual-echo, triple-echo, multiecho, and multi-interference), and MRS FF was calculated with T2 correction. Degrees of HS, iron deposition, inflammation, and fibrosis were analyzed in liver resection (n = 37) and biopsy (n = 19) specimens. The confounding effects of histology on fat quantification were assessed by multiple linear regression analysis. Using the histologic degree of HS as the reference standard, the accuracies of each method in estimating HS and diagnosing an HS of 5% or greater were determined by linear regression and receiver operating characteristic analyses.
Results: Iron deposition significantly confounded estimations of FF by the dual-echo
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