Abstract

To test respiratory-triggered ultrashort echo-time (UTE) Spiral VIBE-MRI sequence in systemic sclerosis-interstitial lung disease assessment compared with computed tomography (CT). Fifty four SSc patients underwent chest CT and UTE (1.5 T). Two radiologists, independently and in consensus, verified ILD presence/absence and performed a semiquantitative analysis (sQA) of ILD, ground-glass opacities (GGO), reticulations and honeycombing (HC) extents on both scans. A CT software quantitative texture analysis (QA) was also performed. For ILD detection, intra-/inter-reader agreements were computed with Cohen K coefficient. UTE sensitivity and specificity were assessed. For extent assessments, intra-/inter-reader agreements and UTE performance against CT were computed by Lin's concordance coefficient (CCC). Three UTE were discarded for low quality, 51 subjects were included in the study. Of them, 42 QA segmentations were accepted. ILD was diagnosed in 39/51 CT. UTE intra-/inter-reader K in ILD diagnosis were 0.56 and 0.26. UTE showed 92.8% sensitivity and 75.0% specificity. ILD, GGO, and reticulation extents were 14.8%, 7.7%, and 7.1% on CT sQA and 13.0%, 11.2%, and 1.6% on CT QA. HC was <1% and not further considered. UTE intra-/inter-reader CCC were 0.92 and 0.89 for ILD extent and 0.84 and 0.79 for GGO extent. UTE RET extent intra-/inter-reader CCC were 0.22 and 0.18. UTE ILD and GGO extents CCC against CT sQA and QA were ≥0.93 and ≥0.88, respectively. RET extent CCC were 0.35 and 0.22 against sQA and QA, respectively. UTE Spiral VIBE-MRI sequence is reliable in assessing ILD and GGO extents in systemic sclerosis-interstitial lung disease patients.

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