Abstract #0588

Accelerated T2 Mapping for Evaluating Cervical Cancer Features: A Preliminary Study

Shujian Li¹, Jie Liu¹, Jinxia Zhu², Tobias Kober³, Tom Hilbert³, and Jingliang Cheng¹

¹Department of Magnetic Resonance, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China, ²MR Collaboration, Siemens Healthcare Ltd, Beijing, China, ³Advanced Clinical Imaging Technology, Siemens Healthcare AG, Lausanne, Switzerland

This study investigated the feasibility of an accelerated T2-mapping sequence to evaluate cervical cancer (CC) pathological type, grade, stage and lymphovascular space invasion (LVSI) status. The results showed that quantitative T2 values can effectively grade and predict the CC LVSI status, and the ADC values can stratify CC grading. The synthetic T2-weighted (T2W) images showed comparable staging accuracy to the morphological T2W images acquired by a conventional sequence. This suggests that this accelerated T2-mapping sequence may facilitate CC staging and grading. Quantitative T2 values may be superior to ADC values in predicting the LVSI status of CC.

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