Richard Kinh Gian Do1,
David H. Gultekin2, Seth S. Katz1, Michael J. Sohn1,
Charles G. Nyman1, Emily C. Zabor3, Chaya M. Moskowitz3,
Diane L. Reidy4
1Radiology,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States; 2Medical
Physics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States;
3Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center, New York, NY, United States; 4Medicine, Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States
Limited data exist on the reproducibility of ADC of liver metastases using multiple b value DWI. 14 patients with neuroendocrine liver metastases were prospectively recruited. We calculated ADC and ADChigh using 5 b value from 0-500 s/mm2 or 3 b values > 100 s/mm2, respectively. Intra-class correlations (ICC) for ADC of all 44 metastases was 0.845 (CI 0.733,0.912) and for ADChigh was 0.380 (CI: 0.093,0.608). For right hepatic metastases, ADC ICC = 0.895 (CI 0.778,0.952), ADChigh ICC = 0.766 (CI 0.535,0.890). From Bland-Altman analyses, change > 0.56x10-3mm2/s in ADC of metastases (>0.46 x10-3mm2/s for right lobe metastases) would be significant.