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Determination of Treatment Efficacy of Lung Cancer using Diffusion-Weighted Whole Body Imaging with Background Suppression(DWIBS)Quantification Software (BD Score)

Version 1 : Received: 25 December 2022 / Approved: 5 January 2023 / Online: 5 January 2023 (01:43:25 CET)

How to cite: Yamamoto, Y.; Numa, T.; Matsuda, K.; Okazaki, Y.; Watanabe, S.; Kimoto, S.; Hiraki, T.; Takahara, T. Determination of Treatment Efficacy of Lung Cancer using Diffusion-Weighted Whole Body Imaging with Background Suppression(DWIBS)Quantification Software (BD Score). Preprints 2023, 2023010086. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202301.0086.v1 Yamamoto, Y.; Numa, T.; Matsuda, K.; Okazaki, Y.; Watanabe, S.; Kimoto, S.; Hiraki, T.; Takahara, T. Determination of Treatment Efficacy of Lung Cancer using Diffusion-Weighted Whole Body Imaging with Background Suppression(DWIBS)Quantification Software (BD Score). Preprints 2023, 2023010086. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202301.0086.v1

Abstract

Chemotherapy for lung cancer has made remarkable progress, and its selection has been subdivided by genetic analysis. Although response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (RECIST) is a simple and highly objective evaluation method, it has been pointed out that it has the disadvantage of not being able to accurately evaluate the therapeutic effect of molecularly targeted drugs and immune checkpoint inhibitors. The purpose of this study is to determine whether quantitative evaluation of DWIBS is useful in determining the effectiveness of treatment for lung cancer. There were 31 patients with lung cancer and 56 patterns were obtained. First, the determination of treatment effect (PD, SD, PR) based on RECIST was performed on CT. Second, tDV and ADC (median) were measured using BD score from DWI images taken at the same time, and the rate of change was calculated. Then, we compared and examined the correlation between RECIST and the rate of change in tDV. There were correlations between RECIST and the rate of change in tDV in PD and PR cases respectively. Compared RECIST on CT, DWIBS using BD score would be more accurate for response evaluation of treatment. There was a tendency that tDV decreased with increasing ADC values, but some of the cases had a dissociated response with increasing ADC values and increasing tDV. Thus, since the color display of ADC values allows us to infer their contents, it would be useful for the evaluation of cases such as dissociated response and pseudoprogression, which are suspected to be atypical responses that are difficult to evaluate with RECIST and other methods.

Keywords

diffusion-weighted whole body imaging with background suppression(DWIBS); magnetic res-onance imaging (MRI); lung cancer; response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (RECIST); ap-parent diffusion coefficient (ADC); BD Score

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Oncology and Oncogenics

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