Behrendt, L., Smith, L.J. orcid.org/0000-0002-5769-423X, Voskrebenzev, A. et al. (13 more authors) (2022) A dual center and dual vendor comparison study of automated perfusion‐weighted phase‐resolved functional lung magnetic resonance imaging with dynamic contrast‐enhanced magnetic resonance imaging in patients with cystic fibrosis. Pulmonary Circulation, 12 (2). e12054. ISSN 2045-8932
Abstract
For sensitive diagnosis and monitoring of pulmonary disease, ionizing radiation-free imaging methods are of great importance. A noncontrast and free-breathing proton magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique for assessment of pulmonary perfusion is phase-resolved functional lung (PREFUL) MRI. Since there is no validation of PREFUL MRI across different centers and scanners, the purpose of this study was to compare perfusion-weighted PREFUL MRI with the well-established dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI across two centers on scanners from two different vendors. Sixteen patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) (Center 1: 10 patients; Center 2: 6 patients) underwent PREFUL and DCE MRI at 1.5T in the same imaging session. Normalized perfusion-weighted values and perfusion defect percentage (QDP) values were calculated for the whole lung and three central slices (dorsal, central, ventral of the carina). Obtained parameters were compared using Pearson correlation, Spearman correlation, Bland–Altman analysis, Wilcoxon signed-rank test, and Wilcoxon rank-sum test. Moderate-to-strong correlations between normalized perfusion-weighted PREFUL and DCE values were found (posterior slice: r = 0.69, p < 0.01). Spatial overlap of PREFUL and DCE QDP maps showed an agreement of 79.4% for the whole lung. Further, spatial overlap values of Center 1 were not significantly different to those of Center 2 for the three central slices (p > 0.07). The feasibility of PREFUL MRI across two different centers and two different vendors was shown in patients with CF and obtained results were in agreement with DCE MRI.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. Pulmonary Circulation published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Fourier decomposition; free-breathing proton MRI; pulmonary MRI |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Sheffield Teaching Hospitals |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 28 Apr 2022 11:39 |
Last Modified: | 28 Apr 2022 11:39 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/pul2.12054 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:186094 |