Keywords: Kidney, Kidney, Microstructure Imaging
Motivation: Diffusion-weighted (DW)-MRI may characterise renal cell carcinoma (RCC) by reflecting cellularity, but results using the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) model are inconclusive.
Goal(s): Use advanced modelling with VERDICT-MRI to characterise renal tissue in two different grades and subtypes of RCC, and compare performance to ADC.
Approach: Fit VERDICT and ADC models to DW-MRI data from two patients and compare performance in terms of accuracy of fitted signal and parameter estimates.
Results: The VERDICT model captures the DW-MRI signal more accurately than ADC. It discriminates between tissue types, and shows high cellularity and low vasculature in the grade 3 tumour, agreeing with independent CT.
Impact: We show that VERDICT-MRI can be used to accurately characterise tumour and benign tissue microstructure in two patients with RCC of different grade and subtype, improving performance over ADC and reflecting histological tissue properties such as cellularity and vasculature.
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