Objective:To evaluate the potential of two quantitative parameters derived from two non-Gaussian diffusion models and conventional apparent diffusion coefficient(ADC)in preoperative magnetic resonance imaging(MRI)for predicting tumor encapsulated blood vessels(VETC)and mi-crovascular infiltration(MVI)in hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC).Methods:This study prospectively collected 105 HCC patients.All patients underwent routine sequence and diffusion-weighted imaging(DWI)MRI with multiple b-values(0~3000s/mm2)within two weeks before surgery.The voxel-wise non-Gaussian incoherent motion(IVIM)model,diffusion kurtosis imaging(DKI)model-derived quantitative parameters,and conventional ADC were obtained using diffusion post-processing tech-niques.The average values of all diffusion parameters of the entire lesion were measured by two radiol-ogists.The VETC and MVI results of HCC tissues were confirmed and divided into three different VETC/MVI(VM)groups by two pathologists.The quantitative parameters were compared between VM groups.The diagnostic performance of quantitative parameters with statistically significant differ-ences was then evaluated by receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curves.Finally,the differences in AUC values between groups were compared using the DeLong test.Results:There were significant differences in IVIM-Dstar and DKI-K values among the VM groups(P<0.001).The IVIM-Dstar and DKI-K values in the VM-group were significantly lower than those in the VM±and VM+groups.In pairwise comparisons,the DKI-K values showed significant differences between each VM subgroup(P all<0.05).The AUC values for differentiating various VM subgroups were 0.756,0.863,0.630 for IVIM-Dstar,and 0.653,0.802,0.673 for DKI-K.The combined model,utilizing IVIM-Dstar and DKI-K values,demonstrated AUC values of 0.769,0.896,and 0.702(P<0.05).The Delong test demonstrated that there were no significant differences in diagnostic performance among the VM groups for IVIM-Dstar,DKI-K,and the combined model(P>0.05).Conclusion:Quantitative parameters derived from non-Gaussian diffusion models have significant practical value in the preoperative prediction of VETC and MVI in HCC.
关键词
肝细胞癌/肿瘤包绕型血管/微血管侵犯/磁共振成像/非高斯弥散模型
Key words
Hepatocellular carcinoma/Tumor encapsulated blood vessels/Microvascular infil-tration/Magnetic resonance imaging/Non-Gaussian diffusion model