Pharmacokinetic modeling of multislice dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI in normal-healing radial fractures: A pilot study

Lewis, Mark, Ebreo, Darren, Malcolm, Paul N., Greenwood, Richard, Patel, Amratlal D., Kasmai, Bahman, Johnson, Glyn and Toms, Andoni P. (2016) Pharmacokinetic modeling of multislice dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI in normal-healing radial fractures: A pilot study. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 43 (3). pp. 611-619. ISSN 1053-1807

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Abstract

PURPOSE: To define the range of quantitative pharmacokinetic parameters in normal-healing bone with dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI). DCE-MRI is an established technique for characterizing abnormal tissue microvasculature within solid tumors, but has also shown promise for assessing bone and bone marrow.   MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this study ethical approval for eight patients was obtained. Inclusion criteria were an extra-articular distal radial fracture in patients aged 20-50 years which had united by 6 weeks in plaster cast. This was assessed by an experienced orthopedic surgeon. DCE-MRI was performed at 1.5T 6 weeks after initial injury. The transfer constant (K(trans) ), transfer rate (Kep ), and initial area under the curve (IAUC) values for the fracture site and adjacent marrow were obtained for each patient.   RESULTS: The mean T1 , K(trans) , Kep , and IAUC at the fracture site were 1713 (standard deviation [SD] 645), 0.09 (SD 0.07), 0.17 (SD 0.17) and 4.9 (SD 4.4). The relative standard deviation (RSD) for the fracture site ranged from 0.38 to 0.97 and for the adjacent marrow ranged from 0.95-3.88. Within each patient the range of RSDs was 0.04-0.42 for T1 , 0.26-0.91 for K(trans) , 0.14-1.06 for Kep , and 0.35-0.96 for the IAUC.   CONCLUSION: Pharmacokinetic measures of perfusion can be obtained from healing fractures using DCE-MRI with "excellent" intraclass correlation coefficients for inter- and intrarater reliability. The use of these perfusion parameters is limited by wide patient-to-patient variation and slice-to-slice variation within patients. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2015.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	dce_mri,fracture,radius,reliability
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Norwich Clinical Trials Unit Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Cancer Studies
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	18 Feb 2016 15:00
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2022 08:23
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/57183
DOI:	10.1002/jmri.25039

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