Gynecologic & Prostate Cancers
Body Thursday, 20 May 2021
Digital Poster
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Oral Session - Gynecologic & Prostate Cancers
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Thursday, 20 May 2021 14:00 - 16:00
  • MOdel-free Diffusion-wEighted MRI (MODEM) with Machine Learning for Cervical Cancer Detection
    Guangyu Dan1,2, Cui Feng1,3, Zheng Zhong1,2, Kaibao Sun1, Muge Karaman1,2, Daoyu Hu3, and Xiaohong Joe Zhou1,2,4
    1Center for MR Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, 2Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, 3Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Wuhan, China, 4Departments of Radiology and Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
    A model free machine-learning based approach using diffusion signal attenuation signatures can detect cervical cancerous tissues with a high accuracy. Acquisition times can be substantially reduced by using this approach without compromising diagnostic performance. 
    Figure 1. Pipeline used in the MODEM machine learning analysis. SMOTE = synthetic minority oversampling technique.
    Figure 2. A set of first-order feature maps from one representative patient. The color-coded regions indicate the cancerous and normal ROIs on the diffusion-weighted images with a b-value of 800 s/mm2.
  • Differential diagnosis of cervical adenocarcinoma and squamous carcinoma by using multiple parameters of Enhanced T2* -Weighted Angiography
    Dahua Cui1, Ailian Liu1, Shifeng Tian1, and Qingwei Song1
    1The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
    Multiple quantitative parameters of ESWAN sequence is promising to be a valuable diagnostic method for differentiating cervical adenocarcinoma (CA) from Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). The AUC of amplitude, R2* and T2* in US group were 0.729, 0.851 and 0.843, respectively.
    Figure 2 The AUC of R2*, T2* and amplitude is 0.851, 0.843, 0.729, respectively, with P value of 0.000, 0.000, 0.001.
    Table 2 Summary of mean amplitude, phase, R2* and T2* values between CA and SCC groups
  • Prediction of prognosis after definitive radiotherapy for uterine cervical cancer using changes of ADC histogram during the clinical course
    Akiyo Takada1, Hajime Yokota2, Miho Watanabe Nemoto2, Takuro Horikoshi1, Koji Matsumoto1, Yuji Habu3, Hirokazu Usui3, Katsuhiro Nasu1, Makio Shozu3, and Takashi Uno2
    1Radiology, Department of Radiology, Chiba University Hospital, Chiba, Japan, 2Radiology, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Radiation Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, 3Obstetrics and gynecology, Department of Reproductive Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
    The change rate of kurtosis in ADC histogram during chemoradiotherapy can predict the prognosis of uterine cervical cancer. By predicting the prognosis early during clinical course, a more personalized treatment can be provided.

    Fig.1 Treatment course and MRI acquisition

    The treatment schedule and the timing of MRI acquisition are shown.MRI examinations with DWI were performed a total of 4 times during the clinical course: before the start of treatment, just before the start of IGBT, at the end of EBRT, and 2-3 months after the end of treatment. The entire tumor was set as the VOI in the axial images of the ADC map. Eighteen histogram features were extracted from each VOI.

    Fig.5 Kaplan-Meier plot and the p-values

    Kaplan-Meier plot and the p-values from the log-rank test on disease-free survival. Kurtosis change can divide between better and worth prognosis groups.

  • Preliminary study about T2 mapping technology in quantification of uterine benign and malignant tumors under 1.5T and 3.0T MRI
    Liuhong Zhu1, Pu-Yeh Wu2, Hao Liu1, and Jianjun Zhou1
    1Radiology, Xiamen Branch, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Xiamen, China, 2GE Healthcare, Beijing, China
    T2 values of be malignant lesions were significantly higher under both 1.5T and 3.0T, while specificity of T2 value under 3.0T were higher than that under 1.5T. T2 mapping can be a new quantitative tool in the distinguishing between uterine benign and malignant tumors, especially under 3.0T MR.
    The T2 values of all lesions under both 1.5T and 3.0T MRI (**, p value <0.01)
    The T2 values of normal tissue under both 1.5T and 3.0T MRI (**, p value <0.01)
  • DTI quantitative parameters were used to differentiate uterine sarcoma from cell - rich uterine fibroids
    Changjun Ma1, Ailian Liu1, Shifeng Tian1, and Jiazheng Wang2
    1Radiology Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China, Dalian,China, China, 2Philips Healthcare,Beijing,China, Beijing,China, China
    Diffusion tensor imaging(DTI) had a high value in the differential diagnosis of uterine sarcoma and cell - rich uterine fibroids.
    Table3:*P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant different.
    Figure3: Receiving operating characteristic (ROC) analysis of ADC(T),FA,VRA value in differention of cell-rich uterinefibroids And Uterine sarcoma.
  • Deep Learning for the Ovarian Lesion Localization and Discrimination Between Borderline Tumors and Cancers in MR Imaging
    Yida Wang1, YinQiao Yi1, Haijie Wang1, Changan Chen2, Yingfang Wang2, Guofu Zhang2, He Zhang2, and Guang Yang1
    1East China Normal University, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, Shanghai, China, 2Department of Radiology, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
    We proposed a deep learning (DL) approach to segment ovarian lesion and differentiate ovarian malignant from borderline tumors in MR Imaging. The trained DL network model could help to identify and categorize ovarian masses with a high accuracy.
    Table 1. Comparison of diagnostic performance of the radiologist and CNN models in ovarian mass discrimination based on MR images in the testing group.
    Figure 3. The segmentation results on MR images. The segmented ovarian tumor regions by U-net++ network (the red line) and radiologist (the green line, ground truth) are shown on sagittal T2WI (upper row) and T2WI coronal (down row) MR images.
  • Hyperpolarized 13C MR imaging of prostate cancer patient derived xenograft models and their response to therapy
    Shubhangi Agarwal1, Jinny Sun1, Emilie Decavel-Bueff1, Robert A Bok1, Romelyn Delos Santos1, Mark Van Criekinge1, Rahul Aggarwal2, Daniel B Vigneron1, Donna Peehl1, John Kurhanewicz1, and Renuka Sriram1
    1Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States, 22Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
    Hyperpolarized [1-13C] pyruvate conversion to lactate may be used to indicate early response to carboplatin in small cell neuroendocrine prostate cancer models in the bone.
    Figure 1: Representative T2-weighted images of PDXs implanted in kidney overlaid with ADC, urea AUC and kpl maps (A). The tumor is delineated with red line. Mean apparent diffusion coefficients, urea AUCs and kpl of kidney (B), bone (C) and liver tumors (D). (Note: significance shown as p values. * p<0.05, **p<0.01 and ***p<0.001)
    Figure 3: Representative T2-weighted images of LTL610 PDXs implanted in bone at baseline and post-carboplatin overlaid with ADC, urea AUC and kpl maps (A). Mean apparent diffusion coefficients (B), urea AUC (C) and kpl (D) at baseline and post-carboplatin. (Note: significance shown as p values. * p<0.05 and **p<0.01.)
  • Improving Multiparametric MR - TRUS Guided Fusion Prostate Biopsies with Hyperpolarized 13C Pyruvate Metabolic Imaging : Technical Development
    Hsin-Yu Chen1, Robert A. Bok1, Hao G. Nguyen2, Katsuto Shinohara2, Antonio C. Westphalen1, Zhen J. Wang1, Michael A. Ohliger1, Lucas Carvajal1, Jeremy W. Gordon1, Peder E.Z. Larson1, Rahul Aggarwal2, John Kurhanewicz1, and Daniel B. Vigneron1
    1Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States, 2Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
    This technical development study demonstrated the feasibility of diagnostic intervention using HP-13C pyruvate MRI. HP-MRI was integrated into the diagnostic prostate mpMRI workflow, complete with identification of C13 research targets and sampling of these targets in fusion biopsies.
    Figure 4. A summary of biopsy results from each patient following the hyperpolarized 13C study and radiologist targeting session. Low-grade cancer involvement was found in the cores corresponding to the C13 targets in 2 out of 3 patients. All the C13-mpMRI studies and the biopsies were safe and successful without adverse events.
    Figure 1. This figure illustrates the workflow of HP-13C MR research targeting of the prostate, based on pyruvate-to-lactate conversion (kPL) abnormalities. The HP-13C MR exam and research targeting was integrated into the standard-of-care mpMRI fusion and systematic biopsies at our institution.
  • A Framework for Characterizing Prostate Cancer Heterogeneity Using Voxel-Wise Co-Registered Ex Vivo MRI and Whole-Mount Histopathology
    Zhaohuan Zhang1, Jiayun Li1, Wenyuan Li1, Haoxin Zheng1, Sohrab Afshari Mirak1, Sepideh Shakeri1, Alan Priester1, Clara Magyar2, Anthony Sisk2, Robert Reiter3, Kyunghyun Sung1, Steven Raman1, Dieter R. Enzmann1, Corey Arnold1, and Holden Wu1
    1Department of Radiological Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 2Department of Pathology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 3Department of Urology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
    Voxel-wise co-registered quantitative MRI and histopathology parameters were correlated within the prostate and showed significant differences between PCa and benign tissues. Texture feature  may provide additional information for understanding the heterogeneity of PCa.
    Figure.1: Data acquisition and processing framework. Utilizing 3D patient-specific molds and ex vivo MRI, quantitative MRI maps of ADC and T2 were registered to the digital histopathology maps of epithelium, stroma and lumen area fractions (fepithelium, fstroma, flumen) at identical resolution of 1x1 mm2. Then, texture features for characterizing PCa heterogeneity were obtained from the high resolution, co-registered quantitative MRI and digital histopathology maps.
    Figure.4: Texture features were calculated for 9 prostate cancer (PCa) regions from 5 patients, based on co-registered (a) quantitative MRI ADC and T2 maps and (b) digital histopathology maps of epithelium, stroma and lumen area fraction. The Gleason Score (GS) for each PCa is also reported.
  • In-vivo Magnetic Resonance Elastography of implanted human prostate tumors in a murine model.
    Joachim Snellings1, Kader Avan1, Marcus Markowski2, Bernd Hamm1, Patrick Asbach1, Carsten Warmuth1, Mehrgan Shahryari1, Heiko Tzschätzsch1, Ingolf Sack1, and Jürgen Braun3
    1Institute of Radiology, Charité Üniversitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany, 2School of Medicine & Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich (TUM), München, Germany, 3Institut für Medizinische Informatik, Charité Üniversitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
    Clinical MR scanners with modern MRE hardware and ultrafast MRE sequences allow the determination of viscoelastic parameters of implanted tumors in murine models.
    Figure 5: Overview of measured SWS (c) in patients and in the LNCap murine model. Comparison of the k-MDEV-based group mean SWS (±Std) determined in vivo on clinical scanners, show that PCa’s in their native environment(4) are stiffer (3.1±0.6m/s, frequency-range 60-80 Hz) than the implanted LNCap tumors in the murine-model (1.5±0.3 m/s, frequency-range of 80-130Hz).Considering the frequency dispersion of c in the ex-vivo study, a good agreement can be found with in-vivo data. See the Result section for detailed SWS values measured ex-vivo.
    Figure 1: Experimental setup. To induce shear waves the anesthetized animals are positioned directly on a passive pressurized air driven actuator (size:80×40×10mm3). The acquisition coil, here sketched as a halved hollow cylinder (inner diameter 47mm), is positioned over the animal. The table height is adjusted so that the animals can be positioned in the isocenter of the magnet.
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Digital Poster Session - Female Pelvis, Placenta & Fetal
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Thursday, 20 May 2021 15:00 - 16:00
  • Grading of Cervical Cancer by Quantitative Maps from Synthetic MRI
    Xiao-Li Song1, Jialiang Ren2, Kaiyu Wang3, and Bing Wu3
    1The Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical School, Taiyuan, China, 2GE Healthcare, Beijing, China, 3GE Healthcare, MR Research China, Beijing, China
    T1 and T2 parametric maps offered by synthetic MR may be noninvasive and effective markers to identify the pathological grade of cervical cancer.
    Figure 1. A demonstration of the T2WI, Syn T2WI, PD, T1, and T2 maps in a cervical cancer patient. ROI is placed on the cervical lesion on Syn T2WI.
    Figure 2. ROC analysis for parameter maps
  • Quantitative Synthetic T1 and T2 Mapping in the Characterization of Cervical Squamous Cell Carcinoma
    Mandi Wang1, Yiang Wang1, Chia-Wei Lee2, Chien-Yuan Lin2, and Elaine Y.P. Lee1
    1The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2GE Healthcare, Taipei, Taiwan
    Mean T2 value could differentiate FIGO stages in cervical squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), and mean T2 value was higher in FIGO stage III~IV than FIGO stage I~II.
    Figure 1. A 55-year-old female with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), FIGO stage IIIC1. Largest slice ROI was delineated on synthetic T2-weighted image (A), the corresponding PD, T1 and T2 maps (B, C, D) were also shown.
  • Uterine cervical adenocarcinomas associated with lobular endocervical glandular hyperplasia: MR imaging manifestations
    Mayumi Takeuchi1, Kenji Matsuzaki2, and Masafumi Harada1
    1Department of Radiology, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan, 2Department of Radiological Technology, Tokushima Bunri University, Sanuki, Japan
    LEGH-associated adenocarcinoma (LEGH-AC) may contain solid components with diffusion restriction (DR). LEGH is undifferentiable from LEGH-AC without DR, and gradual contrast-enhancement pattern on DCE-MRI may be suggestive for its benignity.
    LEGH-AC: Multicystic mass with solid components exhibiting sponge-like slight high intensity on T2WI, high intensity on DWI with relatively low ADC (1.54 x 10-3mm2/s), maintained high signal intensity on computed DWI (b=1500s/mm2) suggesting diffusion restriction, and rapid & prolonged contrast-enhancement pattern on DCE-MRI.
    LEGH: Multicystic mass with solid components exhibiting sponge-like slight high intensity on T2WI, high intensity on DWI with relatively high ADC (2.29 x 10-3mm2/s), decreased signal intensity on computed DWI (b=1500s/mm2) suggesting T2 shine-through effect, and gradual contrast-enhancement pattern on DCE-MRI.
  • A combination analysis of IVIM-DWI biomarkers and T2WI-based texture features for tumor differentiation of cervical squamous cell carcinoma
    Bin Shi1 and Jiang-Ning Dong1
    1The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Anhui Provincial Cancer Hospital, Hefei, China
    By using IVIM-DWI and texture analysis on T2WI together, researchers can establish an imaging-based model related to the microcirculation system and tumor heterogeneity, to further acknowledge the disease and make more accurate decisions for treatment strategies.
    Fig. 1 The Steps of Image Acquisition and Statistical Analysis.

    Fig. 5 Statistical Results of ROC Curves.

    Panel A is the ROC curve of regression model 1 for the comparison of poorly vs. moderately groups. Panel B is the ROC curve of regression model 2 for the comparison of moderately vs. well groups. Panel C is the ROC curve of regression model 3 for the comparison of poorly vs. moderately&well groups. Panel D is the ROC curve of regression model 4 for the comparison of well vs. moderately&poorly groups.

  • The feasibility of reduced field-of-view DWI in evaluating bladder invasion of uterine cervical cancer
    Mayumi Takeuchi1, Kenji Matsuzaki2, and Masafumi Harada1
    1Department of Radiology, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan, 2Department of Radiological Technology, Tokushima Bunri University, Sanuki, Japan
    The bladder mucosal invasion in 14 cervical cancers was evaluated with reduced FOV DWI and cystoscopy. The diagnosis of invasion had a sensitivity of 100%, specificity of 50%, PPV of 92%, and NPV of 100%.
    Bladder mucosal invasion positive case: Bladder mucosal invasion was positive on rFOV-DWI, and confirmed by cystoscopy.
    Bladder mucosal invasion false positive case: Bladder mucosal invasion was positive on rFOV-DWI, but not confirmed by cystoscopy (false positive). Probably submucosal invasion with bullous edema may mimic mucosal invasion on rFOV-DWI.
  • Some texture features from ADC map show both significance with histological findings and good reproducibility in uterine endometrial lesions
    Masamitsu Hatakenaka1, Makoto Nozaki1, and Koichi Onodera1
    1Diagnostic Radiology, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan
    ADC Q1 showed the best in differentiating malignant from benign lesions and high reproducibility (AUC, ICC>0.9). In node metastasis, Discretized histogram entropy, GLCM homogeneity and entropy, GLRLM SRE and SRHGE, GLRLM RP, and GLZLM ZP showed good performance (AUC>0.7, ICC>0.8).
    Table 1. Correlation with histological findings, diagnostic performance and data reproducibility
    Fig 1. Representative case. 80 year’s female. Endometrioid carcinoma, Grade 3, T1a (<1/2) N0 M0. The ROIs are assigned in the uterine endometrial lesion.
  • Improved accuracy of differential diagnosis of endometrial carcinoma and endometrial polyp combined with APTw and IVIM MR imaging
    Xing Meng1, Ailian Liu1, Shifeng Tian1, Qinhe Zhang1, Qingwei Song1, and Jiazheng Wang2
    1Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China, 2Philips Healthcare, Beijing, China
    The combination of APTw and IVIM effectively enhances the differential diagnosis of EC and EP.
    Figure 1: A 55-year-old postmenopausal patient with vaginal bleeding and endometrial carcinoma. (A) Sag T2 SPAIR. (B) APTw and T2WI fusion map, APTw SI of 3.3%. (C-E) IVIM post-processed pseudo-color images, the values of D*, and the D and f values were 7.9×10-3mm2/s, 0.469×10-3mm2/s, and 17.85%, respectively. (F) HE staining results of disease pathology (pathological type: endometrial adenocarcinoma, magnification factor: ×40)
    Figure 2: A 38-year-old premenopausal patient with vaginal bleeding and endometrial polyp. (A) Sag T2 SPAIR. (B) APTw and T2WI fusion map, APTw SI of 2.35. (C-E) IVIM post-processed pseudo-color images, the values of D*, D, and f were 7.0×10-3mm2 /s, 0.988×10-3mm2/s, and 51.8%, respectively. (F) HE staining results of disease pathology (magnification factor: ×40)
  • The feasibility of the combination of APT and DCE in preoperative risk assessment of endometrial carcinoma
    Ye Li1, Shifeng Tian1, Ailian Liu1, Jiazheng Wang2, and Peng Sun2
    1The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China, 2Philips Healthcare, Beijin, China
    This study aimed to investigate the potential of a combination of APT and DCE in the preoperative risk assessment of EC.
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  • The value of GRASP DCE-MRI for the differentiation between benign and malignant endometrium lesions
    yaling wang1, Zhongshuai Zhang2, Yuancheng Wang1, and Shenghong Ju1
    1Zhongda Hospital,School of Medicine,Southeast University, NanJing, China, 2SIEMENS Healthcare, Shanghai, China
    This prospective study aimed to investigate the value of GRASP(Golden-angle RAdial Sparse Parallel)on dynamic gadolinium-enhanced T1-weighted MRI(DCE-MRI)for differentiation between benign and malignant lesions of endometrium on 88 patients. 
    Figure 3. A 71-year-old female with endometrial carcinoma. ROI was placed in endometrial carcinoma area and superficial myometrial area. Both A-C and E-G are the Ktrans, Kep and iAUC, respectively, D and H were DCE concentration curves of the mass and superficial myometrial layer. The calculated Ktrans, Kep and and Ve values of the mass were:0.085 min−1, 0.646 min−1, 0.131, respectively. The Ktrans, Kep and and Ve values of the superficial myometrial layer were:0.31 min−1, 0.981 min−1, 0.316, respectively.
    Figure 1. The Kep distribution of benign and malignant endometrium lesions. The mean Kep values of these two group of statistical measurements are: benign: 0.627 ± 0.673min−1and malignant: 1.412 ± 1.143 min−1 (T test, p<0.01). The area under the ROC curve of Kep value is 0.82 which indicates that the Kep values have very good predictive ability for differentiation between benign and malignant endometrium lesions
  • Prediction Model for Histological Grade of Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma: Based on Amide Proton Transfer-weighted Imaging and Multimodel DWI
    Nan Meng1, Zhun Huang2, Pengyang Feng2, Ting Fang1, Fangfang Fu1, Yaping Wu1, Wei Wei1, Xuejia Wang3, Kaiyu Wang4, and Meiyun Wang*1
    1Department of Radiology, Zhengzhou University People’s Hospital & Henan Provincial People’s Hospital, Zhengzhou, China, 2Department of Radiology, Henan University People’s Hospital & Henan Provincial People’s Hospital, Zhengzhou, China, 3Department of MRI, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University,, Weihui, China, 4GE Healthcare, MR Research China, BeiJing, China
    Both multimodel DWI and APTWI can be used to estimate the histological grade and Ki-67 index of EA, and the combination of a high MTRasym(3.5 ppm) and low D may be an effective imaging marker for predicting the grade of EA.
    Figure.1. Low-grade EA (grade 1, FIGO IB, Ki-67 = 10%) in a 49-year-old woman (arrowheads). (a) Map of DWI (b = 1000s/mm2). (b) Pseudo colored map of ADC, (c) Pseudo colored map of D, (d) Pseudo colored map of D*, (e) Pseudo colored map of f, (f) Pseudo colored map of DDC, (g) Pseudo colored map of α, (h) Pseudo colored map of MTRasym (3.5ppm).
    Figure.2. Plots show individual data points, averages, and standard deviations of MTRasym (3.5ppm), ADC, D, D*, f, DDC, and α in high-grade (yellow) and low-grade (green) EA. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, and ●P > 0.05.
  • Correlation between Ki67 expression and Intraventricular incoherent motion (IVIM) in ovarian cancer
    Xinliu He1, Yulin Chen1, Li Liu1, Ye Li1, Qingwei Song1, and Ailian Liu1
    1The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
    In this study, we retrospectively collected 20 patients with ovarian cancer confirmed by surgery and pathology. By measuring the IVIM value of solid components, we obtained the stand ADC, D value and D * value. The results proved that there are correlation between D value and Ki-67 gene expression in ovarian cancer, P value is 0.039 and the r value is -0.454.
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  • Evaluation of R2* and automatically quantitative ITSS in diagnosis of malignant ovarian tumor.
    Wenjun JUN Hu1, Ailian Liu1, Ye Li1, Hongkai Wang2, Mingrui Zhuang2, and Qingwei Song1
    1The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China, 2Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
    R2* and automatically quantitative ITSS had good performance in differentiating between MOTs and OOTs. The combination of the two parameters improved the differential diagnosis efficiency.
    Figure 2. A 47-year-old female with left ovarian cancer. (1a) T2WI image; (1b) R2* map; (1c) phase map; (1d) tumor was delineated around the edge of the tumor; (1e) AS software recognized quantitatively and automatically ITSS ratio by reading phase maps. ITSS recognized were covered in green.
    Table 2. Area under curve (AUC), sensitivities, specificities of R2*, ITSS and the combination of the two parameters for differentiation between MOTs and OOTs groups
  • Multi-parametric functional and structural assessment of the placenta at late gestational ages using MRI
    Daphna Link1, Netanell Avisdris1,2, Xingfeng Shao3, Liat Ben-Sira4,5, Leo Joskowicz2, Ilan Gull6, Danny J.J Wang3, and Dafna Ben-Bashat1,5
    1Sagol Brain Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, 3Laboratory of FMRI Technology (LOFT), USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 4Division of Pediatric Radiology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, 5Sackler Faculty of Medicine & Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 6Ultrasound Unit, Lis Maternity Hospital, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
    Placental functional-structural MRI assessment, with fetal brain and body volumes at late gestation are presented. Increased normal placental perfusion compared to earlier gestation, and differences in normal placental and fetal characteristics vs. fetal growth restriction, are shown.
    Figure 1: Representative Placental blood flow (PBF) and Arterial Transit Time (ATT) results, for one placenta (GA = 32 weeks) superimposed on the corresponding T2 anatomical image.
    Figure 2: Mean Placental Blood Flow (PBF) (A) and Arterial Transit Time (ATT) (B) values of three GA. The first two early GA (mean of 15 weeks –orange, and 20.5 weeks- gray, are taken from5), while the late GA (mean of 32.5 weeks, blue) demonstrates our results.
  • Use of intravoxel incoherent motion MRI to assess placental perfusion in normal and Fetal Growth Restricted pregnancies on their third trimester
    liu xilong1, Feng jie1, Huang chantao1, Mei Yingjie2, and xu yikai1
    1Department of Medical Imaging Center, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guang Zhou, China, 2Clinical science, Philips Healthcare, Guangzhou, China
    IVIM MRI is a non-invasive, in vivo techniques which can assess placental perfusion quantitatively. Our study show that perfusion fraction (f) have a significantly lower in FGR. And f value moderately incresased with increasing gestational age in normal pregnancies.
    a-c. Box plot of IVIM parameters for normal and FGR groups. a) standard diffusion coefficeint (D); b). pseudodiffusivity (D*); c) perfusion fraction (f). d) Scatter plot showing the perfusion fraction (f) in relation to gestational age in normal pregnancy (p = 0.01). The estimated regression line is shown in the scatter plot (R2 = 0.173).
    An example of IVIM result from a FGR pregnancy (38 years, 31 gestational weeks). a) diffusion weighted image at b-value = 0 mm2/s; b) perfusion fraction (f) map, with f value of 36.4%; c) standard diffusion coefficeint (D) map, with D value of 1.46×10−3mm2/s; d) pseudodiffusivity (D*) map, with D* value of 19.9×10−3mm2/s . The ROI was draw on diffusion weighted image (b = 0 mm2/s) and then transferred to the other three maps.
  • Longitudinal Study on Early Gestation T2*-based BOLD effect in Human Placenta
    Ruiming Chen1, Ante Zhu2, Jitka Starekova3, Daniel Seiter1, Kevin M. Johnson1,3, Scott B. Reeder1,3,4,5,6, Dinesh M. Shah7, Oliver Wieben1,3, and Diego Hernando1,3,4,8
    1Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States, 2GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY, United States, 3Radiology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States, 4Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States, 5Medicine, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States, 6Emergency Medicine, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States, 7Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States, 8Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States
    In contrast to prior reports, T2* values did not vary statistically significantly between 14 and 20 weeks. No significant T2* value differences between obesity groups were observed. T2* histograms showed shape differences for subjects with and without pregnancy complications.
    Figure 3. Averaged histograms of pixel-wise placental T2* values for week 14 and week 20 grouped by pregnancy complications. Here, ‘control’ means no reported pregnancy complications or outcomes and incudes obese and non-obese subjects.
    Figure 2. Box-and-whisker plots of 14-week, 20-week, and ΔT2* values, with the T2* values of abnormal gestational outcome overlaid on top. A trend of increased T2* and decreased T2* with gestation age is observed for non-obese and obese subjects, respectively. However, there are no significant differences in the T2* values for the two groups.
  • Effects of Life-Long Western Diet Consumption on Fetal and Maternal Guinea Pig Body Composition at Mid-Gestation
    Lindsay E Morris1, Flavien Delhaes2, Lanette Friesen Waldner1, Trevor Wade1, Lauren M Smith1, Mary-Ellen ET Empey1, Simran Sethi1, Timothy RH Regnault2,3,4, and Charles A McKenzie1,4
    1Medical Biophysics, Western University, London, ON, Canada, 2Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, London, ON, Canada, 3Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Western University, London, ON, Canada, 4Division of Maternal, Fetal and Newborn Health, Children's Health Research Institute, London, ON, Canada
    The guinea pig maternal liver volume and median fat fraction were significantly higher in Western diet relative to control diet sows. The fetal and placental volumes and placental efficiency were not significantly different between the two diets. 
    Proton density fat fraction IDEAL image slice of (A) a control diet (CD) guinea pig, and (B) a Western diet (WD) guinea pig, with the liver segmented in red. Note the visibly elevated PDFF in the liver of the WD guinea pig. (C) Maternal liver volumes from T1-weighted images for CD and WD sows (p=0.043), (D) Proton density fat fraction (PDFF) for liver from IDEAL images for CD and WD sows (p=0.040). One star (*) indicates (p<0.05).
    (A) Fetal and placental volumes from T1-weighted images for control diet (CD) and Western diet (WD) groups. (B) Placental efficiency, displayed as fetal volume/placental volume for CD and WD groups. Data points coded the same colour within each diet group are fetuses from the same sow.
  • Automatic Segmentation and Normal Dataset of Fetal Body from Magnetic Resonance Imaging
    Bella Fadida-Specktor1, Dafna Ben Bashat2,3, Daphna Link Sourani2, Netanell Avisdris1,2, Elka Miller4, Liat Ben Sira3,5, and Leo Joskowicz1
    1School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Haifa, Israel, 2Sagol Brain Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, 3Sackler Faculty of Medicine & Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 4Medical Imaging, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 5Division of Pediatric Radiology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
    We aimed to develop an automatic method for fetal total body segmentation from MRI data and to create a large dataset of normal fetuses. The method achieved high performance for two different sequences. Volumetric fetal body database was created and was in line with ultrasound growth chart.
    Fig. 2: Estimated fetal volume as a function of gestational age (green points) overlaid on ultrasound fetal body growth chart4 (blue curves representing percentiles). Red points correspond to IUGR fetuses.
    Fig. 1: Illustrative examples of the FIESTA (upper row) and TRUFI (lower row) fetal body segmentation results of two cases. Left: original image, middle: body segmentation result, right: manual ground truth.
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Digital Poster Session - Pelvic Cancer
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Thursday, 20 May 2021 15:00 - 16:00
  • In vitro validation of a real-time 3D MRI Urodynamics Protocol
    Colin Kim1, Cody Johnson1, James Rice2, and Alejandro Roldán-Alzate1
    1Medical Physics and Radiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, 2Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
    This study utilized 3D MRI acquisition on both an in vitro bladder model and an in vivo human subject to analyze deformation patterns during the bladder voiding process and validated results with high-speed optical imaging.
    Figure 1 a.) single frame from the phantom camera footage with measured segment b.) gif created from SLR footage of voiding bladder c.) gif created from MRI sequence of voiding d.) single frame from MRI sequence with measured segment.
    Figure 2. a) Captures of the anterior view of the in vitro 3D segmented bladder volumes at various time points showing deformation over voiding b.) posterior view of the segmented bladder c.) animated asymmetric and complete deformation of the model at various time points.
  • Preliminary Exploration of Expanding the Target Population of VI-RADS - Could Patients After Treatment Benefit from It?
    Bohong Cao1, Qing Li1, Peirong Xu2, Pu-Yeh Wu3, Shuai Jiang2, and Jianjun Zhou1
    1Radiology, Zhongshan Hospital Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 2Urology, Zhongshan Hospital Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 3MR Research, GE Healthcare, MR Research, Beijing, China

    1. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) for Vesical Imaging-Reporting and Data System (VI-RADS) of the the whole bladder cancer group was 0.945. 

    2. The AUCs of the primary group, the post-treatment group and the recurrence group were all greater than 0.90.

    Fig. 2- Sensitivity, specificity, and AUC of VI-RADS in identifying MIBC and NMIBC for each group. AUC = area under the curve; CI = confidence interval; MIBC = muscle-invasive bladder cancer; NMIBC = non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer; ROC = receiver operating characteristics; VI-RADS = Vesical Imaging Reporting and Data System.

    Fig. 1-Design of the study. BC= bladder cancer; mpMRI = multiparametric magneticresonance imaging; VI-RADS = Vesical Imaging Reporting and Data System.

  • Combining Volumetric ADC Histogram Analysis with Vesical Imaging Reporting and Data System to Predict the Muscle Invasion of Bladder Cancer
    Shichao Li1, Ping Liang1, Yanchun Wang1, Yaqi Shen1, Xuemei Hu1, Daoyu Hu1, Xiaoyan Meng1, and Zhen Li1
    1Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
    Our study demonstrated that both volumetric ADC histogram analysis and VI-RADS can contribute to the distinguishment of muscle invasion for bladder cancer, and the volumetric ADC histogram parameters can provide additional value.
    Figure 2. Muscle-invasive papillary urothelial carcinoma in the posterior bladder wall in a 71-year-old-man. a. Axial T2-weighted image; b. Axial DWI images; c. Corresponding diffusion-weighted image reconstruction of ADC values (ADC values are given in units of ×10-3 mm2/s). d. Volumetric ADC histogram shows a large portion of voxels with low ADC values and positive skewness of 2.993 and positive kurtosis of 11.225.
    Figure 5. ROC curves of VI-RADS score combined with volumetric ADC histogram parameters
  • Investigation of synthetic MRI applied in the evaluation of tumor grade of bladder cancer
    Qian Cai1, Huan jun Wang1, Yi ping Huang1, Long Qian2, Yan Guo1, Zhi hua Wen1, Long yuan Ouyang1, and Mei qin Li1
    1Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, 2MR Research, GE Healthcare, Beijing, China
    Synthetic MRI are useful in noninvasively discriminating low- and high-grade bladder cancer.

    Figure 1 (A-D) A 58-year-old woman with low-grade BCa. (A) Axial T2-weighted image, (B-D) SyMRI-derived pseudo-colored maps (T1, T2, and PD, respectively) indicate that the mean T1, T2, and PD value are 27.27 msec, 26.18 msec, and 71.67 pu, respectively.

    (E-H) A 31-year-old man with high-grade BCa. (E) Axial T2-weighted image, (F-H) SyMRI-derived pseudo-colored maps (T1, T2, and PD, respectively) indicate that the mean T1, T2, and PD value are 32.59 msec, 19.41 msec, and 71.52 pu, respectively.

    Figure 2 ROC cure analysis of the mean T2 and PD values for differentiating low- from high-grade BCa. The area under the ROC curves for the mean T2 and PD values were 0.761, and 0.880, respectively.
  • Inhibition of Urine Amide Proton Transfer Signal with Optimal Scan Parameters in Bladder Cancer
    Bo Dai1, Meiyun Wang 1, Fengshan Yan1, Zhiwei Shen2, Yan Bai1, and Nan Meng1
    1Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou, China, 2Philips healthcare, Beijing, China
    In this preliminary study, we found that APTw signal increased with elevated concentrations of urea in phantoms. With the optimal scan parameters, the higher APTw contrast in bladder lesions was acquired, which is helpful to differentiate different grading of bladder cancer with APTw imaging.
    The upper four tube showed the averaged signal intensity of APTw with urea of the concentration of 2 %, 4 %, 6 %, 8 % were 1.07%, 2.46%, 4.78%, 7.22%;the lower four tubes showed in water, egg white ,a healthy volunteer and a patient with bladder cancer were -0.38% ,8.25% 3.13% and 0.29%.
  • The change of amide proton transfer (APT) signal intensity (SI) with age in testes of adults: A preliminary study
    Wenhao Fu1, Yang Peng1, Guanglei Tang1, Weibo Chen2, Kan Deng3, Zhongping Zhang3, Yingjie Mei3, and Jian Guan1
    1Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, 2Philips Healthcare, Shanghai, China, 3Philips Healthcare, Guangzhou, China
    We found that APT SI of testes was positively correlated age, which suggested that APT could be a potential biomarker for spermatogenic function.
    Figure 1. The APT weighted images of testes.
    Pearson’s correlation showed a significant positive correlation between age and the mean APT SI of both testes.
  • Improved the performance of differential diagnosis between Prostate Cancer and Benign Prostate Hyperplasia using APT and mDIXON-Quant
    Xue Ren1, Ailian Liu1, Lihua Chen1, Shuang Li1, Yue Wang1, Jiazheng Wang2, Qingwei Song1, Sun Peng2, Renwang Pu3, and Yuanfei Li1
    1The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China, 2Philips Healthcare, Beijing, China, 3First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
    There are statistically significant differences between MTRasym and R2* between prostate cancer and prostatic hyperplasia. Higher diagnostic confidence could be achieved using APT together with mDIXON-Quant in differentiating prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia.
    Table 2. Comparison o MTRasym and R2* values between the two groups
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  • Four Quadrant mapping of Hybrid Multidimensional MRI data for the diagnosis of prostate cancer
    Aritrick Chatterjee1,2, Xiaobing Fan1, Aytekin Oto 1,2, and Gregory Karczmar1,2
    1Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, 2Sanford J. Grossman Center of Excellence in Prostate Imaging and Image Guided Therapy, Chicago, IL, United States
    Four Quadrant mapping of HM-MRI data provides effective cancer markers, with cancers associated with high PQ4, lower PQ2, and lower angle and amplitude of vectors representing cancer voxels. 
    Figure 2: Representative example of Four Quadrant mapping and associated metrics in a 60 years old patient with Gleason 4+5 cancer in the right peripheral zone (outlined). Histology image (A) and corresponding T2-weighted image (B), ADC map (C) with prostate quadrant map (D), angle (E) and distance (F) are shown. Cancer is associated with high PQ4. Vectors for cancer voxels have a lower angle (except AFMS) and small amplitude. The cancer had 2% PQ1, 45% PQ2, 6% PQ3 and 47% PQ4 signal voxels.
    Figure 1: Four Quadrant mapping scheme where each voxel in the prostate is a point in the 4 quadrant plot, where y = slope of ADC with varying TE, and x = slope of T2 with varying b-value. Each voxel is associated with a distance from origin and an angle. Benign tissue typically lies in quadrant 2 (high PQ2; green). The distinctive property of aggressive cancers is that they have a higher percentage of voxels in the 4th quadrant or high PQ4 (red). Cancer vectors tend to have small amplitude and lie along the negative y axis.
  • Assessing the combined effect of bias field correction and intensity normalization of T2w images on prostate tumor probability maps
    Stephanie Alley1, Uulke Van der Heide2, Cynthia Ménard3, and Samuel Kadoury1,3
    1Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, 2Radiation Oncology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 3Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
    We demonstrate that a systematic assessment of the combined effect of bias field correction and intensity normalization on T2w images leads to enhanced accuracy in tumor localization within the prostate.
    Figure 3. Tumor probability maps for two patients across all pre-processing combinations: a) None, b) N4, c) PABIC, d) N4 + basic normalization, e) PABIC + basic normalization, f) N4 + PZ normalization, g) PABIC + PZ normalization, h) N4 + histogram normalization, i) PABIC + histogram normalization.
    Figure 2. Normalization performance for basic, median peripheral zone (PZ), and histogram matching normalization. Percent coefficient of variation was employed as the ad hoc metric.
  • Correlation between T2 mapping and Intravoxel Incoherent Motion in Prostate cancer and Benign prostatic hyperplasia
    Nila Mu1, Ailian Liu1, Lihua Chen1, Pengyun Zhang1, Yunsong Liu1, Changjun Ma1, Jiazheng Wang2, Liangjie Lin2, Qingwei Song1, and Renwang Pu1
    1The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China, Dalian, China, 2Philips Healthcare, Beijing, China, Beijing, China
    The T2 value was observed to be associated with parameters of IVIM except fast ADC mono in both prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia.
    Figure 1 T2WI(A), DWI(B), fused T2 mapping and DWI (C, D) images , IVIM images as well as the derived Standard ADC, Fraction of fast ADC-mono, Slow ADC bi, and Fraction of fast ADC bi, et al maps (E-L) of a BPH patient. The placement of ROIs is as illustrated.
    Table4CorrelationamongAPT values andthe perfusion parameters of IVIMin all patients with PCa or BPH
  • Two-stage classifier for detection of high-grade prostate cancer using quantitative MRI and radiomic features
    Ethan Leng1, Joseph Koopmeiners2, Lin Zhang2, and Gregory John Metzger1
    1Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Minneapolis, MN, United States, 2School of Public Health, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
    We developed a two-stage classification model for simultaneous detection of prostate cancer on prostate MRI and localization of aggressive, high-grade PCa, using both quantitative MRI and radiomic features.
    Figure 2. Four examples of randomly-generated synthetic prediction maps corresponding to a given ground truth map. Candidate regions in synthetic prediction maps were labeled in the same way as demonstrated in Figure 1, and radiomic features were extracted in the same way as they were for candidate regions of prediction maps obtained from the first-stage voxel-wise classifier.
    Figure 1. (a) Sample ground truth and prediction map generated from the first-stage voxel-wise classifier (white = PCa). (b) Image dilation applied to maps, which facilitates identification of candidate regions in the prediction map (four in this example) via identification of connected voxels. (c) Labeling of candidate regions based on degree of overlap with voxels in the ground truth map. Candidate regions are labeled HG-PCa only if ≥ 50% of voxels within the region are labeled GS ≥ 4+3.
  • Improved differential diagnosis between Prostate Cancer and Benign Prostate Hyperplasia using APT and IVIM
    Lihua Chen1, Ailian Liu1, Pengyun Zhang1, Nila Mu1, Yunsong Liu1, Changjun Ma1, Jiazheng Wang2, Qingwei Song1, and Renwang Pu1
    1The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China, 2Philips Healthcare, Beijing, China
    There were statistic differences in the APT and IVIM parameters between prostate cancer and prostatic hyperplasia. Higher diagnostic confidence was achieved using APT together with IVIM to differentiate between prostate cancer and prostatic hyperplasia.
    Figure 1 A 72-year-old man with PCa: T2WI image (A), DWI image (B, the tumor was located in the right central zone), APTw image of the prostate fused with DWI image (C, D, the placement of ROIs is as illustrated). The tumor showed the APTw value of 1.95 %. IVIM images as well as the derived maps (E-L). A 70-year-old man with BPH: T2WI image (a), DWI image (b), APTw image of the prostate fused with DWI image (c, Dd, the placement of ROIs is as illustrated). The prostate showed the APTw value of 1.31 %. IVIM images as well as the derived maps (e-l).
    Figure 2 The ROC of all the parameters values in differentiation of PCa and BPH.
  • Development and validation of radiomics model for diagnosing PCar and BPH based on Diffusion weighted imaging and clinical information
    Lihua Chen1, Ailian Liu1, Yan Guo2, and Xin Li2
    1The First Affiliated Hospital of DaLian Medical University, Dalian, China, 2GE Healthcare, China, Beijing, China
    The newly established comprehensive model is efficient in clinical distinguishing PCa from BPH, in which the method sketching the whole prostate gland may have a better prospect for prostate radiomics study.
    Figure 1.Workflow of the radiomics modeling
    Figure 2. ROC curves in plan A&B, 6-1&6-2 were ROC curves for training and testing dataset.
  • The Usefulness of Variable-density Stack-of-Stars Acquisition in Dynamic Gadolinium-Enhanced MRI of Prostate Cancer: A Preliminary Study
    Shintaro Horii1, Yoshiko Ueno2, Yuichiro Somia1, Ryuji Shimada1, Keitaro Sofue2, Yasuyo Urase2, Wakiko Tani1, Yu Ueda3, Akiko Kusaka1, and Takamichi Murakami2
    1Center for Radiology and Radiation Oncology, Kobe University Hospital, kobe, Japan, 2Department of Radiology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University Hospital, kobe, Japan, 3Philips Japan MR Clinical Science, tokyo, Japan
    The k-space weighted image contrast reconstruction with variable-density golden angle stack-of-stars acquisition may improve image quality of high temporal resolution DCE-MRI compared to e-THRIVE, with keeping effective pharmacokinetic information in PCa assessment.
    Figure.3 Clinical dynamic contrast enhanced images of 4D-FB and e-THRIVE A. 77-year-old patient with a Gleason 7 prostate cancer, initial PSA of 4.7 ng/mL. Early dynamic contrast enhanced image (4D-FB) shows intense enhancement in the region of the right peripheral zone (arrow). B. 66-year-old patient with a Gleason 7 prostate cancer, initial PSA of 8.1 ng/mL. Early dynamic contrast enhanced image (e-THRIVE) shows enhancement in the region of the right peripheral zone (arrow).
    Figure.1 schematic diagram for scan date acquisition and reconstruction in 4D -FB
  • Effectiveness of split dose of gadoterate meglumine injection using 30% and 70% of standard dose to detect prostate cancer using ultrafast DCE-MRI
    Xiaobing Fan1, Aritrick Chatterjee1, Jay M Pittman1, Ambereen Yousuf1, Tatjana Antic2, Gregory S Karczmar1, and Aytekin Oto1
    1Radiology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, 2Pathology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
    A split dose protocol for Dotarem injection with ultrafast DCE-MRI sampling can improve detection of prostate cancer by improving quantitative analysis and providing sensitivity to water exchange.
    Figure 1. Plots of blood Sbr(t) (dots) obtained from iliac artery and its EMM fits (line) for (a) 30% of standard dose and (b) 70% dose of standard dose. (c) and (d) show plots of cancer and tissue Sr(t) (dots) and their fits (lines) obtained from the SI-Tofts model for (c) 30% and (d) 70% of standard dose.
    Figure 2. Box-plots of cancer (red) and normal tissue (green) physiological parameters (a ,c) Ktrans and (b, d) ve extracted from SI-Tofts model for the 30% (top row) and 70% (bottom row) of standard dose DCE-MRI. The square (□) indicates mean and the asterisks (*) indicate the upper and lower limits of the data.
  • 23Na MRI in Patients with suspected Prostate Cancer: External and Internal References for Quantification of Tissue Sodium Concentration
    Anne Adlung1, Fabian Tollens2, Nadia Karina Paschke1, Jennifer Hümsch1, Niklas Westhoff3, Daniel Hausmann2,4, Lothar Rudi Schad1, Dominik Nörenberg2, and Frank Gerrit Zöllner1,5
    1Computer Assisted Clinical Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany, 2Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany, 3Department of Urology and Urosurgery, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany, 4Department of Radiology, Kantonspital Baden, Baden, Switzerland, 5Mannheim Institute for Intelligent System in Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
    This study investigates TSC quantification in the human prostate based on internal references (iliac artery). 23Na-MRI of 19 male patients with suspected PCa was included. No statistically significant differences were found compared to external references.

    Figure 1:

    A: T2w and coregistered 23Na MRI illustrated as overlay with the TZ (white) and the PZ (red).

    B: TSC quantification based on reference vials prior to image co-registration (method 1, vials encirecled in red).

    C: Quantification based on VOIs within the iliac artery after image co-registration to the T2w image (method 2, iliac arteries encircled in red).

    For all three images a slice was chosen that best depicts the corresponding ROI. Images show high intensity lines at the bottom which are artifacts that were caused by the B1-corrections.

    Figure 3: Quantified 23Na MRI from one patient with a PI-RADs 5 lesion in the TZ, image focused on the prostate region. TSC quantification based on method1 (left) and method2 (right).
  • A comparison study of the value of Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging and Amide Proton Transfer imaging in the evaluation of prostate cancer
    Huijia Yin1, Dongdong Wang1, Ruifang Yan1, Xuekun Li1, Kaiyu Wang2, and Dongming Han1
    1MR, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China, 2MR Research China,GE Healthcare, Xinxiang, China
    In our study, the diagnostic value of DKI and APT for prostate cancer (PCa), as well as the risk assessment of PCa by using DKI and APT were analyzed. According to the results of the study, MTRasym(3.5ppm), MK and MD can be used to distinguish prostate cancer from BPH. ROC analysis showed that MK has the greatest diagnostic efficiency for PCa, which is consistent with the conclusions of other researchers. Meanwhile, these three parameters shows ability in the risk assessment of prostate cancer, which is consistent with previous research results. Our study also shows that MK and MTRasym(3.5ppm) respectively have an extremely and moderately strong positive correlation (r = 0.844, 0.640) with GS, and MD has an extremely strong negative correlation (r = -0.811) with GS. This implies that MK value has the strongest ability to predict GS of PCa, and some other researchers had the same conclusion. In summary, MK, MD and MTRasym(3.5ppm) values can be used to evaluate the potential invasion of PCa and have correlations with GS risk. In conclusion, both DKI and APT can be used to diagnose PCa and assess its risk without additional use of external contrast agent, but DKI shows better diagnostic efficiency. 
    Figure.1 A 58-year-old man with PCa in right peripheral zone, GS is 8. (a) T2-weighted image shows hypointense signal in the lesion, (b) Diffusion-weighted imaging indicates hyperintense signal, (c) APT pseudo-colored map shows yellow-green pseudocolor in the lesion, (d) Mean kurtosis pseudo-colored map indicates red-yellow-green pseudocolor in the lesion, (e) Mean diffusivity pseudo-colored map shows blue-green pseudocolor in the lesion, (f) pathological image
    Figure.3 ROC curves of MK/MD/MTRasym(3.5ppm) values between BPH and PCa groups(a), BPH and low-risk groups (b), low-risk and intermediate-risk groups (c), intermediate-risk and high-risk groups (d), respectively.
  • A pilot study of 18F-PSMA PET/CT or PET/MRI and ultrasound fusion targeted prostate biopsy for intra-prostatic PET-positive lesions
    Yachao Liu1, Hongkai Yu2, Jiajin Liu1, Xiaojun Zhang1, Mu Lin3, Holger Schmidt4, Jiangping Gao2, and Baixuan Xu1
    1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China, 2Department of Urology Surgery, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China, 3MR collaborations, Diagnostic Imaging, Siemens Healthcare, Shanghai, China, 4MR Education, Customer Services, Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany
    18F-PSMA PET/CT-US or PET/MRI-US fusion-targeted prostate biopsy are feasible for prostate cancer diagnosis due to its high detection rate of clinically significant prostate cancer. PET/MR can rule out some false PET-positive lesions, which may potentially reduce unnecessary biopsies.
    Figure 1. 18F-PSMA PET/CT-US or PET/MRI-US fusion targeted prostate biopsy for the intraprostatic PET-positive lesions were performed (A). The boundaries of the prostate were delineated on the CT image (B, white circle). The PET-positive lesion was marked as the target for biopsy (C, pink circle). The previous delineated prostate and PET-positive lesion from PET/CT was registered to the prostate volume acquired from the 3-dimensional transrectal ultrasonography; the puncture needle (D, arrow) then reached the target biopsy area.
    Figure 2. PET/CT found one PET-positive lesion in the prostate gland (A: PET, B: CT, C: fused PET/CT). PET/MRI showed short T2 signal (D: PET, E: T2WI, F: fused PET/T2WI), high DWI signal (G: PET, H: DWI, L: fused PET/DWI), and a decreased ADC value at the site of the PET-positive lesion (J: PET, K: ADC map, L: fused PET/ADC map). The subsequent pathology confirmed prostate cancer.
  • Head-to-head comparison of PSMA-PET/CT and ferumoxtran-10-enhanced MRI for the diagnosis of lymph node metastases in prostate cancer patients
    Melline Gabrielle Maria Schilham1, Patrik Zamecnik1, Bas Israel1, Bastiaan Privé1, Mark Rijpkema1, Jelle Barentsz1, James Nagarajah1, Martin Gotthardt1, and Tom Scheenen1
    1Medical Imaging, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, Netherlands
    Nano-MRI identifies significantly more small suspicious lymph nodes compared to PSMA- PET/CT in the same patient.
    Size distribution of suspicious lymph nodes as detected by nanoparticle-enhanced MRI (green) and prostate-specific membrane antigen PET/CT (blue).
    FIGURE 3. Anatomic distribution of identified suspicious lymph nodes as detected by nanoparticle-enhanced MRI and prostate-specific membrane antigen PET/CT.