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- Title
STIR turbo SE MR imaging vs. coregistered FDG-PET/CT: Quantitative and qualitative assessment of N-stage in non-small-cell lung cancer patients.
- Authors
Ohno, Yoshiharu; Koyama, Hisanobu; Nogami, Munenobu; Takenaka, Daisuke; Yoshikawa, Takeshi; Yoshimura, Masahiro; Ohbayashi, Chiho; Sugimura, Kazuro
- Abstract
Purpose To conduct a prospective comparison of the accuracy of short inversion time (TI) inversion-recovery (STIR) turbo spin-echo (SE) imaging and coregistered 2-[fluorine-18] fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET) with computed tomography (CT) (coregistered FDG-PET/CT) to assess the N-stage in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. Materials and Methods A total of 115 consecutive NSCLC patients prospectively underwent CT, STIR turbo SE imaging, and FDG-PET, as well as surgical and pathological examinations. All STIR turbo SE images were obtained with a 0.9% saline phantom, which was placed alongside the chest wall of each patient, and coregistered FDG-PET/CTs were reconstructed using commercially available software. For quantitative assessments, the ratio of signal intensity (SI) of each lymph node to that of 0.9% saline phantom (lymph node-saline ratio [LSR]) and maximal standardized uptake value (SUVmax) of each lymph node were calculated. Feasible threshold values were determined by using the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve-based positive test, and diagnostic capabilities of N-stage were compared by McNemar's test on a per patient basis. Results When feasible, threshold values were adopted, quantitative sensitivity (90.1%) and accuracy (92.2%) of STIR turbo SE imaging were significantly higher than those of quantitative and qualitative sensitivities (76.7% and 74.4%) and accuracies (83.5% and 82.6%) of coregistered FDG-PET/CT on a per patient basis ( P < 0.05). Conclusion STIR turbo SE imaging is at least as valid as coregistered FDG-PET/CT for quantitative and qualitative assessment of the N-stage for NSCLC patients. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2007;26:1071-1080. © 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
- Publication
Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2007, Vol 26, Issue 4, p1071
- ISSN
1053-1807
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jmri.21106