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- Title
Age and gender dependence of liver diffusion parameters and the possibility that intravoxel incoherent motion modeling of the perfusion component is constrained by the diffusion component.
- Authors
Huang, Hua; Zheng, Cun‐Jing; Wang, Li‐Fei; Che‐Nordin, Nazmi; Wáng, Yì Xiáng J.
- Abstract
The aim of this study was to establish reference values for middle‐aged subjects and to investigate the age and gender dependence of liver diffusion MRI parameters. The IVIM type of liver diffusion scan was based on a single‐shot spin‐echo–type echo‐planar sequence using a 1.5 T magnet with 16 b‐values. Diffusion‐derived vessel density (DDVD)(b0b2) or DDVD(b0b10) was the signal difference between b = 0 and b = 2 (or b = 10) s/mm2 images after removing visible vessels. IVIM analysis was performed with full fitting and segmented fitting, and with a threshold b‐value of 60 or 200 s/mm2, and fitting started from b = 2 s/mm2. Thirty‐one men (age range: 25‐71 years) and 26 men (age: 22‐69 years) had DDVD and IVIM analysis, respectively, while 37 women (age: 20‐71 years) and 36 women (age: 20‐71 years) had DDVD and IVIM analysis, respectively. DDVD results showed a significant age‐related reduction for women. IVIM results for full fitting showed excellent agreement with those for segmented fitting using a threshold b of 60 s/mm2, but this was less good for results with a threshold b of 200 s/mm2. As age increased, female subjects' Dslow measure showed a significant reduction, while their PF and Dfast measures showed a significant increase. For the age group of 40‐55 years, DDVD(b0b2), DDVD(b0b10), Dslow, PF and Dfast were 12.26 ± 3.90 au/pixel, 16.95 ± 5.45 au/pixel, 1.072 ± 0.067 (10−3 mm2/s), 0.141 ± 0.025 and 61.0 ± 14.0 (10−3 mm2/s) for men, and 13.35 ± 3.6 au/pixel, 17.20 ± 3.62 au/pixel, 1.069 ± 0.074 (10−3 mm2/s), 0.119 ± 0.014 and 57.1 ± 13.2 (10−3 mm2/s) for women, respectively. DDVD measure of this study suggest that aging is associated with a reduction in liver perfusion. There is a possibility that a lower Dslow measure is associated with artificially higher PF and Dfast measures, and that IVIM modeling of the perfusion component is constrained by the diffusion component.
- Subjects
GENDER; DIFFUSION magnetic resonance imaging; DIFFUSION; PERFUSION; LIVER
- Publication
NMR in Biomedicine, 2021, Vol 34, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0952-3480
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/nbm.4449