Opportunistic osteoporosis screening: contrast-enhanced dual-layer spectral CT provides accurate measurements of vertebral bone mineral density
European Radiology, ISSN: 1432-1084, Vol: 31, Issue: 5, Page: 3147-3155
2021
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Article Description
Objectives: Osteoporosis remains under-diagnosed, which may be improved by opportunistic bone mineral density (BMD) measurements on CT. However, correcting for the influence of intravenous iodine-based contrast agent is challenging. The purpose of this study was to assess the diagnostic accuracy of iodine-corrected vertebral BMD measurements derived from non-dedicated contrast-enhanced phantomless dual-layer spectral CT (DLCT) examinations. Methods: Vertebral volumetric DLCT-BMD was measured in native, arterial, and portal-venous scans of 132 patients (63 ± 16 years; 32% women) using virtual monoenergetic images (50 and 200 keV). For comparison, conventional BMD was determined using an asynchronous QCT calibration. Additionally, iodine densities were measured in the abdominal aorta (AA), inferior vena cava, and vena portae (VP) on each CT phase to adjust for iodine-related measurement errors in multivariable linear regressions and a generalized estimated equation, and conversion equations were calculated. Results: BMD values derived from contrast-enhanced phases using conversion equations adjusted for individual vessel iodine concentrations of VP and/or AA showed a high agreement with those from non-enhanced scans in Bland-Altman plots. Mean absolute errors (MAE) of DLCT-BMD were 3.57 mg/ml for the arterial (R = 0.989) and 3.69 mg/ml for the portal-venous phase (R = 0.987) (conventional BMD: 4.70 [R = 0.983] and 5.15 mg/ml [R = 0.981]). In the phase-independent analysis, MAE was 4.49 mg/ml for DLCT (R = 0.989) (conventional BMD: 4.82 mg/ml [R = 0.981]). Conclusions: Converted BMD derived from contrast-enhanced DLCT examinations and adjusted for individual vessel iodine concentrations showed a high agreement with non-enhanced DLCT-BMD, suggesting that opportunistic BMD measurements are feasible even in non-dedicated contrast-enhanced DLCT examinations. Key Points: • Accurate BMD values can be converted from contrast-enhanced DLCT scans, independent from the used scan phase. • DLCT-BMD measurements from contrast-enhanced scans should be adjusted with iodine concentrations of portal vein and/or abdominal aorta, which significantly improves the goodness-of-fit of conversion models.
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http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85092489081&origin=inward; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00330-020-07319-1; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33052464; https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00330-020-07319-1; https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00330-020-07319-1; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00330-020-07319-1
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