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Pharmacokinetic mapping for lesion classification in dynamic breast MRI.
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PMID:  20512889     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
PURPOSE: To prospectively investigate whether a rapid dynamic MRI protocol, in conjunction with pharmacokinetic modeling, could provide diagnostically useful information for discriminating biopsy-proven benign lesions from malignancies. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients referred to breast biopsy based on suspicious screening findings were eligible. After anatomic imaging, patients were scanned using a dynamic protocol with complete bilateral breast coverage. Maps of pharmacokinetic parameters representing transfer constant (K(trans)), efflux rate constant (k(ep)), blood plasma volume fraction (v(p)), and extracellular extravascular volume fraction (v(e)) were averaged over lesions and used, with biopsy results, to generate receiver operating characteristic curves for linear classifiers using one, two, or three parameters. RESULTS: Biopsy and imaging results were obtained from 93 lesions in 74 of 78 study patients. Classification based on K(trans) and k(ep) gave the greatest accuracy, with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.915, sensitivity of 91%, and specificity of 85%, compared with values of 88% and 68%, respectively, obtained in a recent study of clinical breast MRI in a similar patient population. CONCLUSION: Pharmacokinetic classification of breast lesions is practical on modern MRI hardware and provides significant accuracy for identification of malignancies. Sensitivity of a two-parameter linear classifier is comparable to that reported in a recent multicenter study of clinical breast MRI, while specificity is significantly higher.
Authors:
Matthias C Schabel; Glen R Morrell; Karen Y Oh; Cheryl A Walczak; R Brad Barlow; Leigh A Neumayer
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI     Volume:  31     ISSN:  1522-2586     ISO Abbreviation:  J Magn Reson Imaging     Publication Date:  2010 Jun 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-05-31     Completed Date:  2010-09-28     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9105850     Medline TA:  J Magn Reson Imaging     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1371-8     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
University of Utah Department of Radiology, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132, USA. matthias.schabel@hsc.utah.edu
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Adult
Aged
Biopsy
Breast / pathology*
Breast Diseases / diagnosis*,  pathology
Breast Neoplasms / diagnosis*,  pathology
Female
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
Middle Aged
Pharmacokinetics
Prospective Studies
ROC Curve
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity
Grant Support
ID/Acronym/Agency:
K08CA112449/CA/NCI NIH HHS; K25 EB005077/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS

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