Free-Breathing Low-Field MRI of the Lungs Detects Functional Alterations Associated With Persistent Symptoms After COVID-19 Infection
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OBJECTIVES: With the COVID-19 pandemic, repetitive lung examinations have become necessary to follow-up symptoms and associated alterations. Low-field MRI, benefiting from reduced susceptibility effects, is a promising alternative for lung imaging to limit radiations absorbed by patients during CT examinations, which also have limited capability to assess functional alterations. The aim of this investigative study was to explore the functional abnormalities that free-breathing 0.55 T MRI in combination with the phase-resolved functional lung (PREFUL) analysis could identify in patients with persistent symptoms after COVID-19 infection.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Seventy-four COVID-19 patients and 8 healthy volunteers were prospectively scanned in free-breathing with a balanced steady-state free-precession sequence optimized at 0.55 T, 5 months postinfection on average. Normalized perfusion (Q), fractional ventilation (FV), and flow-volume loop correlation (FVLc) maps were extracted with the PREFUL technique. Q, FV, and FVLc defects as well as defect overlaps between these metrics were quantified. Morphological turbo-spin-echo images were also acquired, and the extent of abnormalities was scored by a board-certified radiologist. To investigate the functional correlates of persistent symptoms, a recursive feature elimination algorithm was applied to find the most informative variables to detect the presence of persistent symptoms with a logistic regression model and a cross-validation strategy. All MRI metrics, sex, age, body mass index, and the presence of preexisting lung conditions were included.
RESULTS: The most informative variables to detect persistent symptoms were the percentage of concurrent Q and FVLc defects and of areas free of those defects. A detection accuracy of 71.4% was obtained with these 2 variables when fitting the model on the entire dataset. Although none of the single variables differed between patients with and without persistent symptoms ( P > 0.05), the combined score of these 2 variables did ( P < 0.02). This score also showed a consistent increase from healthy volunteers (7.7) to patients without persistent symptoms (8.2) and with persistent symptoms (8.6). The morphological abnormality score showed poor correlation with the functional parameters.
CONCLUSIONS: Functional pulmonary examinations using free-breathing 0.55 T MRI with PREFUL analysis revealed potential quantitative markers of impaired lung function in patients with persistent symptoms after COVID-19 infection, potentially complementing morphologic imaging. Future work is needed to explore the translational relevance and clinical implication of these findings.
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| 520 | |a OBJECTIVES: With the COVID-19 pandemic, repetitive lung examinations have become necessary to follow-up symptoms and associated alterations. Low-field MRI, benefiting from reduced susceptibility effects, is a promising alternative for lung imaging to limit radiations absorbed by patients during CT examinations, which also have limited capability to assess functional alterations. The aim of this investigative study was to explore the functional abnormalities that free-breathing 0.55 T MRI in combination with the phase-resolved functional lung (PREFUL) analysis could identify in patients with persistent symptoms after COVID-19 infection | ||
| 520 | |a MATERIALS AND METHODS: Seventy-four COVID-19 patients and 8 healthy volunteers were prospectively scanned in free-breathing with a balanced steady-state free-precession sequence optimized at 0.55 T, 5 months postinfection on average. Normalized perfusion (Q), fractional ventilation (FV), and flow-volume loop correlation (FVLc) maps were extracted with the PREFUL technique. Q, FV, and FVLc defects as well as defect overlaps between these metrics were quantified. Morphological turbo-spin-echo images were also acquired, and the extent of abnormalities was scored by a board-certified radiologist. To investigate the functional correlates of persistent symptoms, a recursive feature elimination algorithm was applied to find the most informative variables to detect the presence of persistent symptoms with a logistic regression model and a cross-validation strategy. All MRI metrics, sex, age, body mass index, and the presence of preexisting lung conditions were included | ||
| 520 | |a RESULTS: The most informative variables to detect persistent symptoms were the percentage of concurrent Q and FVLc defects and of areas free of those defects. A detection accuracy of 71.4% was obtained with these 2 variables when fitting the model on the entire dataset. Although none of the single variables differed between patients with and without persistent symptoms ( P > 0.05), the combined score of these 2 variables did ( P < 0.02). This score also showed a consistent increase from healthy volunteers (7.7) to patients without persistent symptoms (8.2) and with persistent symptoms (8.6). The morphological abnormality score showed poor correlation with the functional parameters | ||
| 520 | |a CONCLUSIONS: Functional pulmonary examinations using free-breathing 0.55 T MRI with PREFUL analysis revealed potential quantitative markers of impaired lung function in patients with persistent symptoms after COVID-19 infection, potentially complementing morphologic imaging. Future work is needed to explore the translational relevance and clinical implication of these findings | ||
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