Laura Heacock1, Yiming Gao1, Samantha Heller1, Amy Melsaether1, Sungheon Kim1,2, and Linda Moy1
1Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States, 2Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI2R), New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
GRASP DCE-MRI (Golden-angle Radial Sparse Parallel) DCE-MRI
allows simultaneous high spatial and temporal resolution. The purpose of this
study was to evaluate breast lesion conspicuity between GRASP and conventional
Cartesian sampling DCE-MRI. Readers assessed conspicuity of 48 biopsy-proven lesions
on conventional DCE-MRI and subsequent GRASP biopsy. No significant difference was
found between the two techniques for all lesions (p=0.21, p=0.19, p=0.46), masses
(p=1.0, p=0.48, p=0.7) or NME (p=0.18,p=0.08, p=0.64). There was strong reader
agreement in evaluating conspicuity (ICC=0.735). GRASP DCE-MRI is comparable to
conventional DCE-MRI imaging for masses and NME with diagnostic-quality high
spatial resolution and flexibility of temporal resolution.