Quantifieation research of the severity of diabetic nephropathy by IDEAL-IQ sequence
Xinmiao Bu1, Ailian Liu1, Ye Ju1, Wenjun Hu1, Changyu Du2, Haoyang Jiang2, and Lingli Qi2
1The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China, 2Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
In this paper, we discuss the R2* value
and FF value of IDEAL-IQ sequence to differentiate the severity of diabetic nephropathy. The
results show that the AUC values of R2* and FF were 0.792 and 0.823
respectively,which made it possible to identify mild and severe diabetic
nephropathy early.
Fig. 1 The ROI placed in focus area. The 38-year-old male patient with severe diabetic nephropathy. A was R2* image,the R2* value was 15.7. B was FF image,the FF value was 3.5.
Fig 2.The ROC curve of R2* and FF value to diagnose severe and mild groups of diabetic nephropathy.