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Comparison of spin-echo echo-planar imaging magnetic resonance elastography with gradient-recalled echo magnetic resonance elastography and their correlation with transient elastography
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Abdominal Imaging - Original Article
VOLUME: 28 ISSUE: 4
P: 294-300
July 2022

Comparison of spin-echo echo-planar imaging magnetic resonance elastography with gradient-recalled echo magnetic resonance elastography and their correlation with transient elastography

Diagn Interv Radiol 2022;28(4):294-300
DOI: 10.5152/dir.2022.201014
Jin Woo Yoon 1
Eun Sun Lee 1
Hyun Jeong Park 1
Sung Bin Park 1
Young Youn Cho 2
Stephan Kannengiesser 3
Joonho Hur 1
1. Department of Radiology, Chung-Ang University Hospital, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, 102, Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Republic of Korea
2. Department of Internal Medicine, Chung-Ang University Hospital, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, 102, Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Republic of Korea
3. Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, Germany
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Received Date: 25.12.2020
Accepted Date: 20.06.2021
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ABSTRACT

PURPOSE

This study aimed to assess the agreement between liver stiffness (LS) values obtained by the gradient-recalled echo (GRE) magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) and spin-echo echo-planar imaging (SE-EPI) MRE with those of transient elastography (TE), respectively.

METHODS

We retrospectively included 48 participants who underwent liver MRE with both GRE and SE-EPI sequences in the same session and also TE within 1 year. We obtained LS values for MRE by drawing free-hand region of interest, and TE was performed using a FibroScan device. We assessed the relationship between the mean LS values obtained by each MRE sequence and TE using the correlation coefficients and Bland–Altman plots, respectively. We also compared LS values and technical failure rates of measured values from MRE between SE-EPI and GRE sequences using the paired t-test and McNemar’s test. The MRE failure was defined as the absence of pixel value with a confidence index above 95%.

RESULTS

The LS values from SE-EPI and GRE sequences strongly correlated with those from TE (GRE; r = 0.73, P < .001 vs. SE-EPI; r = 0.79, P < .001). In addition, the LS values from the 2 MRE sequences showed excellent relationship (intraclass correlation coefficient, 0.94 [0.89-0.97], P < .001). The LS values from SE-EPI and GRE MRE were not significantly different (4.14 kPa vs. 3.88 kPa, P = .19). Furthermore, the technical success rate of SE-EPI MRE was superior to that of GRE (100% vs. 83.8%, P = .031).

CONCLUSION

The measured LS values obtained using TE correlated strongly with those obtained using GRE and SE-EPI MRE techniques, even though SE-EPI-MRE resulted a higher technical success rate than GRE-MRE. Therefore, we believe that TE, GRE, and SE-EPI MR elastography techniques may complement each other according to the appropriate individual situation.