Shohei Fujita, Katsuhiro Sano, Gastao Cruz, Carlos Velasco, Hideo Kawasaki, Yuki Fukumura, Masami Yoneyama, Akiyoshi Suzuki, Kotaro Yamamoto, Yuichi Morita, Takashi Arai, Issei Fukunaga, Wataru Uchida, Koji Kamagata, Osamu Abe, Ryohei Kuwatsuru, Akio Saiura, Kenichi Ikejima, René Botnar, Claudia Prieto, Shigeki Aoki
Purpose To evaluate the feasibility of liver MR fingerprinting (MRF) for quantitative characterization and diagnosis of focal liver lesions. Materials and Methods This single-site, prospective study included 89 participants (mean age, 62 years ± 15 [SD]; 45 women, 44 men) with various focal liver lesions who underwent MRI between October 2021 and August 2022. The participants underwent routine clinical MRI, non-contrast-enhanced liver MRF, and reference quantitative MRI with a 1.5-T MRI scanner. The bias and repeatability of the MRF measurements were assessed using linear regression, Bland-Altman plots, and coefficients of variation...
November 2023: Radiology. Imaging cancer