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MR imaging evaluation of heavy-ion therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma
ZHAO Zhiping  GUAN Zhaoyu  WANG Jianhua  ZHANG Yanshan  WANG Huijuan 

Cite this article as: ZHAO Z P, GUAN Z Y, WANG J H, et al. MR imaging evaluation of heavy-ion therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2023, 14(6): 32-38. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2023.06.005.


[Abstract] Objective To explore the value of MRI in the efficacy evaluation of heavy-ion radiotherapy (HIT) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).Materials and Methods A retrospective analysis of 25 cases of HCC examed by MRI, compare the axial area, volume and maximum diameter, apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), T1WI signal enhancement rate ratio (SER) of the HCC before treatment with the data which after 3-6 months treatment. To evaluate the correlation between the imaging changes and the alpha-fetal protein (AFP) changes. Wilcoxon rank-sum test was used to compare changes in AFP, morphological parameters (maximum length, area and volume) and MRI parameters (ADC and SER); Spearman correlation was used to analyze the correlation between the SER of arterial phase (A phase), hepatic portal venous phase (H phase) and venous phase (V phase) and tumor morphology, ADC and tumor marker AFP.Results The results showed that after HIT, HCC morphology, AFP decreased, and ADC value was significantly increased (P＜0.05). Correlation analysis showed that SER of A phase was slightly positively correlated with tumor morphology, and the correlation coefficient with the maximum length and volume of tumor was r=0.29 and r=0.27 (P＜0.05), respectively, SER of H phase was also slightly positively correlated with tumor morphology, and the correlation coefficients with area and volume were r=0.28 and r=0.31, respectively (P＜0.05), ADC value was negatively correlated with AFP value of tumor marker, and the correlation coefficient was r=-0.40 (P＜0.05). The correlation between AFP and tumor size and SER showed that AFP was positively correlated with tumor diameter and volume, r=0.69 and 0.64, respectively (P＜0.05). At the same time, AFP was positively correlated with the enhancement rate of A phase, r=0.59 (P＜0.05), but not with the enhancement rate of H phase and phase V (P＞0.05).Conclusions HCC changes significantly before and after HIT, and has a good correlation with AFP, with the decrease of AFP, HCC tumor size and SER are decreased which compared with before treatment, while the ADC value is higher than before treatment. MRI can evaluate the efficacy of HIT in HCC effectively.
[Keywords] hepatocellular carcinoma；heavy-ion radiotherapy；efficacy evaluation；diffusion weighted imaging；magnetic resonance imaging

ZHAO Zhiping   GUAN Zhaoyu*   WANG Jianhua   ZHANG Yanshan   WANG Huijuan  

Department of Radiology, Gansu Wuwei Tumor Hospital, Wuwei 733000, China

Corresponding author: Guan ZY, E-mail: 343331295@qq.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Key R&D Program Project of Gansu Province (No. 20YF8FH155).
Received  2022-12-05
Accepted  2023-05-06
DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2023.06.005
Cite this article as: ZHAO Z P, GUAN Z Y, WANG J H, et al. MR imaging evaluation of heavy-ion therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2023, 14(6): 32-38. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2023.06.005.

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