American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol 155, 763-770, Copyright © 1990 by American Roentgen Ray Society

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Detection of hepatic metastases: comparison of contrast-enhanced CT, unenhanced MR imaging, and iron oxide-enhanced MR imaging

CJ Fretz, DD Stark, CE Metz, G Elizondo, R Weissleder, JH Shen, J Wittenberg, J Simeone and JT Ferrucci
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

Diagnostic accuracy of contrast-enhanced CT, unenhanced MR imaging, and MR images enhanced with superparamagnetic iron oxide was evaluated in 10 patients with histologically proved hepatic metastases. First, diagnostic performance of the imaging technique with respect to the ability of radiologists to recognize the presence or absence of a metastasis was measured by using receiver-operating-characteristic (ROC) analysis of single images. Second, the total number of lesions (N = 108) detected by "complete" CT and MR examinations was counted. Finally, lesion-liver contrast-to-noise ratios (CNR) were measured in all MR sequences. The area under the ROC curve was .67 +/- .03 for contrast-enhanced CT, .81 +/- .07 for the unenhanced SE 260/14 sequence, and .92 +/- .01 for the iron oxide-enhanced SE 1500/40 sequence. The enhanced SE 1500/40 sequence yielded significantly (p less than .005) greater accuracy than did contrast-enhanced CT. The same sequence detected significantly (p less than .05) more lesions than all other imaging techniques (19% more than the best unenhanced MR sequence and 36% more than contrast-enhanced CT). The enhanced SE 1500/40 sequence also yielded the highest CNR value (19.5 +/- 10.2) of all MR sequences. These results indicate that iron oxide-enhanced MR imaging is a superior imaging technique for the detection of hepatic lesions.
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