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Erschienen in: European Spine Journal 9/2019

15.05.2019 | Original Article

A comparative study of diffusion kurtosis imaging and T2* mapping in quantitative detection of lumbar intervertebral disk degeneration

verfasst von: Feifei Zeng, Yunfei Zha, Liang Li, Dong Xing, Wei Gong, Lei Hu, Yang Fan

Erschienen in: European Spine Journal | Ausgabe 9/2019

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Abstract

Purpose

To assess the feasibility of diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) for diagnosing lumbar intervertebral disk degeneration (IDD) and to compare the potential of DKI and T2* mapping in the diagnosis of early IDD.

Methods

Sagittal T2WI, DKI, and T2* mapping were performed in 75 subjects with 375 lumbar intervertebral disks at a 3.0-T MRI. DKI-related parameters including mean kurtosis (MK), mean diffusivity (MD), fractional anisotropy (FA), and T2* values were calculated for each disk which was segmented into three regions: nucleus pulposus (NP), anterior annulus fibrosus (AAF), and posterior annulus fibrosus (PAF).

Results

MK and FA were positively correlated with Pfirrmann grade (all P < 0.001). MD and T2* were negatively correlated with Pfirrmann grade (all P < 0.001) except for T2* value of AAF (r = 0.087, P > 0.05). MK and FA values increased, while MD and T2* values decreased with age. No statistical significance was found between men and women (P > 0.05). Cephalic lumbar disks (L1/L2 and L2/L3) got lower MK and FA values than caudal lumbar disks (L4/L5 and L5/S1) (all P < 0.05), while cephalic lumbar disks got higher MD value than caudal lumbar disks (all P < 0.05). ROC analysis demonstrated that MK, MD, and FA showed significantly higher diagnostic accuracies than T2*, especially in NP and PAF.

Conclusions

DKI can be used to assess human lumbar IDD. And DKI was more sensitive to the quantitative detection of early lumbar IDD than T2* mapping.

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Metadaten
Titel
A comparative study of diffusion kurtosis imaging and T2* mapping in quantitative detection of lumbar intervertebral disk degeneration
verfasst von
Feifei Zeng
Yunfei Zha
Liang Li
Dong Xing
Wei Gong
Lei Hu
Yang Fan
Publikationsdatum
15.05.2019
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
European Spine Journal / Ausgabe 9/2019
Print ISSN: 0940-6719
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-0932
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-019-06007-z

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