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Published on: November 23, 2019
3D-DESS MRI with CAIPIRINHA two- and fourfold acceleration for quantitatively assessing knee cartilage morphology
Donglin Wen1, Xiaoyue Zhou2, Bowen Hou1
1Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No.1095, Jiefang Road, Wuhan City, 430030, Hubei Province, China.
Objectives:
This study aimed to assess the diagnostic image quality and compare the knee cartilage segmentation results using a controlled aliasing in parallel imaging results in higher acceleration (CAIPIRINHA)-accelerated 3D-dual echo steady-state (DESS) research package sequence in the knee.
Materials And Methods:
A total of 64 subjects underwent both two- and fourfold CAIPIRINHA-accelerated 3D-DESS and DESS without parallel acceleration technique of the knee on a 3.0 T system. Two musculoskeletal radiologists evaluated the images independently for image quality and diagnostic capability following randomization and anonymization. The consistency of automatic segmentation results between sequences was explored using an automatic knee cartilage segmentation research application. The descriptive statistics and inter-observer and inter-method concordance of various acceleration sequences were investigated. P values < .05 were considered significant.
Results:
For image quality evaluation, the image signal-to-noise ratio and contrast-to-noise ratio decreased with the decrease in scanning time. However, it is accompanied by the reduction of artifacts. Using 3D-DESS without parallel acceleration technique as the standard for cartilage grading diagnosisand the diagnostic agreement of two- and fourfold CAIPIRINHA-accelerated 3D-DESS was good, kappa value was 0.860 (P < .001) and 0.804 (p < 0.001), respectively. Regarding cartilage defects, the sensitivity and specificity of the twofold acceleration 3D-CAIPIRINHA-DESS were 95.56% and 97.70%, and the fourfold CAIPIRINHA-accelerated 3D-DESS were 91.49% and 97.65%, respectively. The intraclass correlation coefficients of various sequences in cartilage segmentation were almost all greater than 0.9.
Conclusion:
The CAIPIRINHA-accelerated 3D-DESS sequence maintained comparable diagnostic and segmentations performance of knee cartilage after a 60% scan time reduction.
