1.Correlation between histogram analysis of dynamic contrast enhanced MRI and diffusion weighted imaging intravoxel incoherent motion quantitative parameters and Gleason score of prostate cancer
Ru WEN ; Wenlu ZHAO ; Chaogang WEI ; Jiangfen WU ; Peng CAO ; Yuefan GU ; Mengjuan LI ; Yueyue ZHANG ; Junkang SHEN
Chinese Journal of Radiology 2017;51(5):355-361
Objective To investigate the value and diagnostic efficiency of the quantitative dynamic contrast enhanced-magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) and intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) parameters using three dimention (3D)-histogram analysis for discriminating the Gleason score (GS) of prostate cancer. Methods A total of 53 patients pathologically confirmed as prostate cancer by systemic prostate biopsy who had routine , DCE and DWI-MRI scans were retrospectively analyzed. There were 15 cases for low-risk and 38 cases for intermediate/high-risk prostate cancer. The 3D ROI of all lesions based on T2WI was achieved by image registration to get the quantitative parameters of DCE-MRI and DWI-IVIM. The parameters of DCE-MRI contains: transfer constant (Ktrans), rate constant (Kep) and extracellular-extravascular volume fraction (Ve).The DWI-IVIM related quantitative parameters were ADC, diffusion coefficient (D), diffusion coefficient related to perfusion (D*) and perfusion fraction (f). Then the histogram analysis of these quantitative parameters was performed to get the mean, median, 25th percentile, 75th percentile, Skewness and Kurtosis. Using the Spearman rank correlation analysis to evaluate the correlation of these parameters and GS of prostate cancer. The diagnostic performance of these quantitative histogram parameters related to the GS in identifying low-risk and intermediate/high-risk of prostate cancer was carried by ROC. Results The Kep and Ktrans (mean, median, 25th, 75th) of DCE-MRI were positively correlated with GS (r value was 0.346 to 0.696, P<0.05). The ADC (mean, median, 25th, 75th), D (mean, median, 25th, 75th, Skewness, Kurtosis) and D*(25th) of DWI-IVIM were correlated with GS (r value was-0.544 to 0.428, P<0.05). The DCE-MRI quantitative parameters Kep (25th) had the highest area under curve (AUC, 0.961); The ADC (median) and D (25th) had higher AUC( 0.832, 0.888) in the quantitative parameters of DWI-IVIM, the difference between Kep(25th) and ADC (median) was statistically significant (Z value was 2.212, P value was 0.027). The difference of AUC between Kep (25th) and D (25th), D (25th) and ADC (median) was not statistically significant (Z values were 1.027 and 1.398, P values were 0.162 and 0.304, respectively).Conclusion DCE and IVIM quantitative parameters (Kep, Ktrans, ADC, D) histogram analysis results are correlated with GS, and can be used for distinguishing low-risk from intermediate/high-risk prostate cancer.
2.Clinical research progress of acupuncture and moxibustion and Tuina therapy in the treatment of hemiplegia due to cerebral apoplexy
Chaogang WU ; Zheng WEN ; Wei ZHANG ; Xuyin YANG ; Jingyang LIU
International Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2020;42(6):612-615
This paper reviews the clinical researches on acupuncture and moxibustion and Tuina therapy for hemiplegia, due to cerebral apoplexy. It is found that acupuncture and Tuina therapy mainly includes acupuncture, moxibustion, massage, electroacupuncture, as well as the combination of acupuncture and Chinese medicine, acupuncture and massage therapy or the combination of modern rehabilitation technics. The researches showed that all treatments have good clinical effect and few adverse reactions. However, most of the researches focus on self-control, and lacks comparability. There stilllacks strict RCT and unified standard of operation scheme. Besides, the researches on the mechanism should be strengthened.