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Short-term reproducibility of apparent diffusion coefficient estimated from diffusion-weighted MRI of the prostate

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Purpose

The purpose of the study is to determine short-term reproducibility of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) estimated from diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance (DW-MR) imaging of the prostate.

Methods

Fourteen patients with biopsy-proven prostate cancer were studied under an Institutional Review Board-approved protocol. Each patient underwent two, consecutive and identical DW-MR scans on a 3T system. ADC values were calculated from each scan and a deformable registration was performed to align corresponding images. The prostate and cancerous regions of interest (ROIs) were independently analyzed by two radiologists. The prostate volume was analyzed by sextant. Per-voxel absolute and relative percentage variations in ADC were compared between sextants. Per-voxel and per-ROI variations in ADC were calculated for cancerous ROIs.

Results

Per-voxel absolute difference in ADC in the prostate ranged from 0 to 1.60 × 10−3 mm2/s (per-voxel relative difference 0% to 200%, mean 10.5%). Variation in ADC was largest in the posterior apex (0% to 200%, mean 11.6%). Difference in ADC variation between sextants was not statistically significant. Cancer ROIs’ per-voxel variation in ADC ranged from 0.001 × 10−3 to 0.841 × 10−3 mm2/s (0% to 67.4%, mean 11.2%) and per-ROI variation ranged from 0 to 0.463 × 10−3 mm2/s (mean 0.122 × 10−3 mm2/s).

Conclusions

Variation in ADC within the human prostate is reasonably small, and is on the order of 10%.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported in part by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health under grant number T32 EB002103.

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  1. Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Avenue, MC 2026, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    Meredith Sadinski, Milica Medved, Ibrahim Karademir, Shiyang Wang, Yahui Peng, Yulei Jiang, Steffen Sammet, Gregory Karczmar & Aytekin Oto

  2. Department of Radiology, Eskisehir Military Hospital, 26020, Eskisehir, Turkey

    Ibrahim Karademir

  3. School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, No. 3 Shangyuancun, Haidian District, Beijing, 100044, China

    Yahui Peng

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Sadinski, M., Medved, M., Karademir, I. et al. Short-term reproducibility of apparent diffusion coefficient estimated from diffusion-weighted MRI of the prostate. Abdom Imaging 40, 2523–2528 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00261-015-0396-x

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