Abstract #4373

Preoperative T Staging of Potentially Resectable Esophageal Cancer: 3T MRI based on T2-TSE-BLADE and contrast-enhanced free-breathing radial VIBE (StarVIBE) vs endoscopic ultrasound

Jinrong Qu¹, Hongkai Zhang¹, Hui Liu², Xu Yan², Zhaoqi Wang¹, Hailiang Li¹, Kiefer Berthold³, Nickel Marcel Dominik³, and Ihab R. Kamel⁴

¹Radiology, the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China, ²MR Collaboration, Siemens Healthcare, ³MR Pre-development, Siemens Healthcare, ⁴Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

This study compared MRI based on the combination of T2-TSE-BLADE and contrast-enhanced T1 radial VIBE (StarVIBE) against endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) for T staging of potentially resectable esophageal cancer (EC). The histology confirmation of the T stage was used as reference. The results showed that the combination of T2-TSE-BLADE and StarVIBE is comparable to EUS in T staging of potentially resectable EC with lesions of T1/T2 stage, and is superior to EUS with lesions of T3/T4 stage.

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