Quantitative water T2 relaxometry in the early detection of neuromuscular diseases: a retrospective biopsy-controlled analysis.
Noah LocherBenedikt WagnerFabian BalsigerOlivier ScheideggerPublished in: European radiology (2022)
• Quantitative water T2 relaxometry is more sensitive than subjective assessment of fat-suppressed T2-weighted images for the early detection of neuromuscular diseases, prior to late-stage fatty infiltration signal alternations in T1-weighted images. • Normal-appearing muscles in fat-suppressed T2-weighted images do not rule out early-stage neuromuscular diseases. • Quantitative water T2 relaxometry should be considered complementary to subjectively rated fat-suppressed T2-weighted images in clinical practice.
Keyphrases
- deep learning
- convolutional neural network
- magnetic resonance
- early stage
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- adipose tissue
- optical coherence tomography
- network analysis
- clinical practice
- high resolution
- fatty acid
- magnetic resonance imaging
- computed tomography
- machine learning
- squamous cell carcinoma
- physical activity
- depressive symptoms
- lymph node
- sleep quality
- sentinel lymph node
- data analysis
- clinical evaluation