Weyts Kathleen, Vernooij Meike, Steketee Rebecca, Valkema Roelf, Smits Marion
Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, 's-Gravendijkwal 230, 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, 's-Gravendijkwal 230, 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Clin Imaging. 2017 Sep-Oct;45:1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2017.05.008. Epub 2017 May 19.
18FDG PET-CT is useful for early and differential diagnosis of dementia. ASL-MRI seems an attractive alternative. Visual agreement was calculated in 21 brain regions bilaterally in 9/11 patients with suspected early-stage dementia, excluding 2 patients due to ASL-MRI motion artefacts. Overall gross agreement was almost perfect and identical between and within modalities (κ=0.85-0.86, p<0.05). Intermodality regional agreement was variable, moderate (κ=0,56 in posterior cingulate) to perfect (including in precuneus), not different from intramodality agreement. Diagnostic accuracy was 5/9 (56%) for ASL-MRI and 7/9 (78%) for FDG PETCT. (p=0.31). Clinical experience and optimisation may further improve ASL-MRI's performance.
18氟脱氧葡萄糖正电子发射断层扫描-计算机断层扫描(18FDG PET-CT)对痴呆的早期诊断和鉴别诊断很有用。动脉自旋标记磁共振成像(ASL-MRI)似乎是一种有吸引力的替代方法。对9/11例疑似早期痴呆患者的双侧21个脑区计算视觉一致性,排除2例因ASL-MRI运动伪影的患者。总体总体一致性在不同模态之间和模态内部几乎完美且相同(κ=0.85-0.86,p<0.05)。模态间区域一致性各不相同,从中度(后扣带回κ=0.56)到完美(包括楔前叶),与模态内一致性无差异。ASL-MRI的诊断准确率为5/9(56%),18FDG PET-CT的诊断准确率为7/9(78%)。(p=0.31)。临床经验和优化可能会进一步提高ASL-MRI的性能。