Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) ratio vs conventional ADC for detecting clinically significant prostate cancer with 3-T MRI
American Journal of Roentgenology Jun 25, 2019
Bajgiran AM, et al. - Via a retrospective cohort study that included 218 men with 240 unilateral prostate cancer (PCa) lesions assessed by both 3-T multiparametric MRI and whole-mount histopathologic analysis, the researchers assessed performance of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADCratio) ratio with that of conventional ADC to discover high-grade PCa vs low-grade PCa using whole-mount (WM) histopathologic analysis as a reference. A higher AUC value of ADCratio_mean for discriminating PCa lesions was noted. During the stratification by PCa zonal location, significantly more robust efficiency of the ADCratio_mean in the transition zone in comparison with the peripheral zone was observed. In both the endorectal coil and non–endorectal coil subcohorts, nonsignificant but better performance of the ADCratio_mean, especially in the former, was seen. Hence, the ADC ratio presented the best AUC value as an intrapatient-normalized diagnostic tool for differentiation of low-grade from high-grade PCa on 3-T MRI.
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