Diffusion-weighted MRI of bone marrow oedema, soft tissue oedema and synovitis in paediatric patients: feasibility and initial experience

Pediatric Rheumatology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Neubauer, Henning ^a   Evangelista, Laura ^a   Morbach, Henner ^a   Girschick, Hermann ^b   Prelog, Martina ^a   Köstler, Herbert ^a   Hahn, Dietbert ^a   Beer, Meinrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Klinikum am Friedrichshain   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW EDEMA; CHILD; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; EDEMA; EXPERIENCE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; JOINT EFFUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOFT TISSUE OEDEMA; SYNOVITIS;

EID: 84864360103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15460096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1546-0096-10-20     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Guermazi A, Roemer FW, Hayashi D. Imaging of osteoarthritis: update from a radiological perspective. Curr Opin Rheumatol 2011, 23:484-491. 10.1097/BOR.0b013e328349c2d2, 21760511.
2. Farrant JM, O'Connor PJ, Grainger AJ. Advanced imaging in rheumatoid arthritis. Part 1: Synovitis. Skeletal Radiol 2007, 36:269-279. 10.1007/s00256-006-0219-9, 17139505.
3. Khoo MMY, Tyler PA, Saifuddin A, Padhani AR. Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in musculoskeletal MRI: a critical review. Skeletal Radiol 2011, 40:665-681. 10.1007/s00256-011-1106-6, 21311884.
4. Darge K, Jaramillo D, Siegel MJ. Whole-body MRI in children: Current status and future applications. Eur J Radiol 2008, 68:289-298. 10.1016/j.ejrad.2008.05.018, 18799279.
5. Kim HK, Zbojniewicz AM, Merrow AC, Cheon JE, Kim IO, Emery KH. MR findings of synovial disease in children and young adults: Part 1. Pediatr Radiol 2011, 41:495-511. 10.1007/s00247-011-1971-0, 21337125.
6. Morbach H, Schneider P, Schwarz T, Hofmann C, Raab P, Neubauer H, Düren C, Beer M, Girschick HJ. Comparison of magnetic resonance imaging and 99mTechnetium-labelled methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy in the initial assessment of chronic non-bacterial osteomyelitis of childhood and adolescents. Clin Exp Rheumatol 2012, [Epub ahead of print].
7. Schaefer PW, Copen WA, Lev MH, Gonzalez RG. Diffusion-weighted imaging in acute stroke. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am 2006, 14:141-168. 10.1016/j.mric.2006.06.005, 16873008.
8. Goo HW. Regional and whole-body imaging in pediatric oncology. Pediatr Radiol 2011, 41:S186-S194. 10.1007/s00247-011-2050-2, 21523595.
9. Bley TA, Wieben O, Uhl M. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging in musculoskeletal radiology: applications in trauma, tumors, and inflammation. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am 2009, 17:263-275. 10.1016/j.mric.2009.01.005, 19406358.
10. Bammer R. Basic principles of diffusion-weighted imaging. Eur J Radiol 2003, 45:169-184. 10.1016/S0720-048X(02)00303-0, 12595101.
11. Dietrich O, Biffar A, Reiser MF, Baur-Melnyk A. Diffusion-weighted imaging of bone marrow. Semin Musculoskelet Radiol 2009, 13:134-144. 10.1055/s-0029-1220884, 19455476.
12. Spuentrup E, Buecker A, Adam G, van Vaals JJ, Guenther RW. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging for differentiation of benign fracture edema and tumor infiltration of the vertebral body. AJR 2001, 176:351-358.
13. Kwee TC, Takahara T, Vermoolen MA, Bierings MB, Mali WP, Nievelstein RAJ. Whole-body diffusion-weighted imaging for staging malignant lymphoma in children. Pediatr Radiol 2010, 40:1592-1602. 10.1007/s00247-010-1775-7, 2940028, 20676622.
14. Agarwal V, Kumar M, Singh JK, Rathore RKS, Misra R, Gupta RK. Diffusion tensor anisotropy magnetic resonance imaging: a new tool to assess synovial inflammation. Rheumatology 2009, 48:378-382. 10.1093/rheumatology/ken499, 19174567.
15. Basser PJ, Mattiello J, Le Bihan D. Estimation of the effective self-diffusion tensor from the NMR spin echo. J Magn Reson 1994, 103:247-254.
16. Koh DM, Takahara T, Imai Y, Collins DJ. Practical aspects of assessing tumors using clinical diffusion-weighted imaging in the body. Magn Reson Med Sci 2007, 6:211-224. 10.2463/mrms.6.211, 18239358.
17. Zierhut ML, Gardner JC, Spilker ME, Sharp JT, Vicini P. Kinetic modeling of contrast-enhanced MRI: an automated technique for assessing inflammation in the rheumatoid arthritis wrist. Ann Biomed Eng 2007, 35:781-795. 10.1007/s10439-006-9249-7, 17340197.
18. Gylys-Morin VM, Graham TB, Blebea JS, Dardzinski BJ, Laor T, Johnson ND, Oestreich AE, Passo MH. Knee in early juvenile rheumatoid arthritis: MR imaging findings. Radiology 2001, 220:696-706. 10.1148/radiol.2203000461, 11526269.
19. Öner AJ, Aggunlu L, Akpek S, Tali T, Celik A. Diffusion-Weighted Imaging of the Appendicular Skeleton with a Non-Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill Single-Shot Fast Spin-Echo Sequence. AJR 2007, 189:1494-1501. 10.2214/AJR.07.2512, 18029891.
20. Gaffney K, Cookson J, Blades S, Coumbe A, Blake D. Quantitative assessment of the rheumatoid synovial microvascular bed by gadolinium-DTPA enhanced magnetic resonance imaging. Ann Rheum Dis 1998, 57:152-157. 10.1136/ard.57.3.152, 1752541, 9640130.
21. Boss A, Martirosian P, Fritz J, Kötter I, Henes JC, Claussen CD, Schick F, Horger M. Magnetic resonance spin-labeling perfusion imaging of synovitis in inflammatory arthritis at 3.0T. Magn Reson Mater Phy 2009, 22:175-180.
22. Neubauer H, Platzer I, Mueller V, Meyer T, Liese J, Koestler H, Hahn D, Beer M. Diffusion-weighted MRI of abscess formations in children and young adults. World J Ped 2012, 8:229-234.
23. Nonomura Y, Yasumoto M, Yoshimura R, Haraguchi K, Ito S, Akashi T, Ohashi I. Relationship between bone marrow cellularity and apparent diffusion coefficient. J Magn Reson Imaging 2001, 13:757-760. 10.1002/jmri.1105, 11329198.