Abstract #0412

Amide proton transfer (APT) imaging of benign ovarian cystic lesions

Keisuke Ishimatsu¹, Akihiro Nishie¹, Yukihisa Takayama¹, Yoshiki Asayama¹, Kousei Ishigami¹, Yasuhiro Ushijima¹, Daisuke Kakihara¹, Nobuhiro Fujita¹, Koichiro Morita¹, Seiichiro Takao¹, Osamu Togao¹, Kenzo Sonoda², Jochen Keupp³, and Hiroshi Honda¹

¹Department of Clinical Radiology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, ²Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, ³Philips Research, Hamburg, Germany

It is important to diagnose benign ovarian cystic lesions as early and correctly as possible because some types of lesions have malignant potential. The objective of our study is to investigate whether amide proton transfer (APT) imaging is useful for evaluation of benign ovarian cystic lesions. We compared the APT signal in three different benign ovarian cystic lesions using three different durations of presaturation pulse.

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