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CAIPIRINHA-accelerated 10-min 3D TSE MRI of the ankle for the diagnosis of painful ankle conditions: Performance evaluation in 70 patients

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Abstract

Objectives

To test the hypothesis that MRI of the ankle with a 10-min 3D CAIPIRINHA SPACE TSE protocol is at least equivalent for the detection of painful conditions when compared to a 20-min 2D TSE standard of reference protocol.

Methods

Following institutional review board approval and informed consent, 70 symptomatic subjects underwent 3T MRI of the ankle. Six axial, sagittal and coronal intermediate-weighted (IW) and fat-saturated T2-weighted (T2FS) 2D TSE (total acquisition time, 20 min), and two sagittal isotropic IW and T2FS 3D CAIPIRINHA TSE (10 min) pulse sequence prototypes were obtained. Following randomization and anonymization, two musculoskeletal radiologists evaluated the 2D and 3D datasets independently. Descriptive statistics, inter-reader reliability, inter-method concordance, diagnostic definitiveness tests were applied. P-values < 0.05 were considered significant.

Results

Raters diagnosed 116 cartilage defects with 2D and 109 with 3D MRI, 35 ligament tears with 2D and 65 with 3D MRI, 18 tendon tears with 2D and 20 with 3D MRI, and 137 osseous abnormalities with 2D and 149 with 3D MRI. The inter-reader agreement was high for 2D (Kendall W, 0.925) and 3D MRI (W, 0.936) (p < 0.05), as was the inter-method concordance (W, 0.919). The diagnostic definitiveness of readers was higher for 3D MRI than 2D MRI in 10-27% of the time, while the reverse was true in 7-11% of the time (p < 0.01).

Conclusions

The performance of 10-min 3D CAIPIRINHA SPACE MRI for the detection of painful ankle conditions is similar to that of a 20-min 2D TSE MRI reference standard.

Key Points

• CAIPIRINHA Acceleration facilitates isotropic 3D MRI of the Ankle in 10 min.

• 10-min 3D CAIPIRINHA MRI and 20-min 2D TSE MRI have similar performance.

• 3D CAIPIRINHA SPACE MRI afforded higher diagnostic definitiveness of readers.

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Abbreviations

2D :

Two-dimensional

3D:

Three-dimensional

CAIPIRINHA :

Controlled aliasing in parallel imaging results in higher acceleration

IW :

Intermediate-weighted

MRI :

Magnetic resonance imaging

SPACE :

Sampling perfection with application optimized contrast using different flip angle Evolution

T2FS :

Fat-suppressed T2-weighted

TSE :

Turbo spin echo

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This study has received funding by Siemens AG.

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  1. Radiology, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

    Benjamin Fritz & Susanne Bensler

  2. Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Benjamin Fritz & Susanne Bensler

  3. Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Section of Musculoskeletal Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 601 N. Caroline Street, JHOC 3140A, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA

    Gaurav K. Thawait & Jan Fritz

  4. Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Allee am Roethelheimpark 2, 91052, Erlangen, Germany

    Esther Raithel

  5. Bond Business School, Bond University, QLD, Gold Coast, 4229, Australia

    Steven E. Stern

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Fritz, B., Bensler, S., Thawait, G.K. et al. CAIPIRINHA-accelerated 10-min 3D TSE MRI of the ankle for the diagnosis of painful ankle conditions: Performance evaluation in 70 patients. Eur Radiol 29, 609–619 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-018-5591-z

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