Correlation between Amide Proton Transfer Imaging and Pathological Staging of Rectal Cancer
Honglei Hu1, Xixi Zhao1, Qiming Wei2, Chuyao Chen1, Yuewei Huang1, Yingjie Mei3, and Yikai Xu1
1Medical Imaging Center, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, 2Intervention, Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, China, 3Philips Healthcare, Guangzhou, China
The
mean ATP SI(%) values at the tumor site of the largest cross-section of rectal
cancer are closely related to its pathological stage, and they are
statistically significant in pathological T stage and N stage(pT stage: p=0.008;
pN Stage: p=0.000).
Figure2. Magnetic resonance images showing a 57-year-old
male patient with rectal cancer. The tumor is isointense on T1-weighted MR
image, mildly hyperintense on T2-weighted MR image, hyperintense on DWI (b = 1000 s/mm2)
, and isointense on ATP image (d).
Table1. Correlations Between Mean ATP SI(%) with
Clinicopathologic Characteristics.