2.5-Minute Fast Brain MRI with Multiple Contrasts in Acute Ischemic Stroke

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PURPOSE: To assess the performance of a 2.5-minute multi-contrast brain MRI sequence (NeuroMix) in diagnosing acute cerebral infarctions.

METHODS: Adult patients with a clinical suspicion of acute ischemic stroke were retrospectively included. Brain MRI at 3 T included NeuroMix and routine clinical MRI (cMRI) sequences, with DWI/ADC, T2-FLAIR, T2-weighted, T2*, SWI-EPI, and T1-weighted contrasts. Three radiologists (R1-3) independently assessed NeuroMix and cMRI for the presence of acute infarcts (DWI ↑, ADC = or ↓) and infarct-associated abnormalities on other image contrasts. Sensitivity, specificity, and the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) were calculated and compared using DeLong's test. Inter- and intra-rater agreements were studied with kappa statistics. Relative DWI (rDWI) and T2-FLAIR (rT2-FLAIR) signal intensity for infarctions were semi-automatically rendered, and the correlation between methods was evaluated.

RESULTS: According to the reference standard, acute infarction was present in 34 out of 44 (77%) patients (63 ± 17 years, 31 men). Other infarct-associated signal abnormalities were reported in similar frequencies on NeuroMix and cMRI (p > .08). Sensitivity for infarction detection was 94%, 100%, and 94% evaluated by R1, R2, R3, for NeuroMix and 94%, 100%, and 100% for cMRI. Specificity was 100%, 90%, and 100% for NeuroMix and 100%, 100%, and 100% for cMRI. AUC for NeuroMix was .97, .95, and .97 and .97, 1, and 1 for cMRI (DeLong p = 1, .32, .15), respectively. Inter- and intra-rater agreement was κ = .88-1. The correlation between NeuroMix and cMRI was R = .73 for rDWI and R = .83 for rT2-FLAIR.

CONCLUSION: Fast multi-contrast MRI NeuroMix has high diagnostic performance for detecting acute cerebral infarctions.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:66

Enthalten in:

Neuroradiology - 66(2024), 5 vom: 02. Apr., Seite 737-747

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kits, Annika [VerfasserIn]
Al-Saadi, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]
De Luca, Francesca [VerfasserIn]
Janzon, Fredrik [VerfasserIn]
Mazya, Michael V [VerfasserIn]
Lundberg, Johan [VerfasserIn]
Sprenger, Tim [VerfasserIn]
Skare, Stefan [VerfasserIn]
Delgado, Anna Falk [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

DWI/T2-FLAIR mismatch
Diagnostic performance
Fast imaging
Ischemic stroke
Journal Article
Multi-contrast MRI
NeuroMix

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Date Completed 22.04.2024

Date Revised 26.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s00234-024-03331-0

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369523113