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Histogram analysis of T2 mapping for detecting early involvement of extraocular muscles in patients with thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy.

Scientific Reports 2020 November 11
Using histogram analysis of T2 values to detect early involvement of extraocular muscles (EOMs) in patients with thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO). Five EOMs of each orbit were analyzed for 45 TAO patients and 22 healthy controls (HCs). Patients' EOMs were grouped into involved or normal-appearing EOMs (NAEOMs). Histogram parameters and signal intensity ratios (SIRs) of EOMs were compared; receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was performed to differentiate NAEOMs from EOMs of HCs. 24 patients were reassessed following immunosuppressive treatment. For SIRs, involved muscles showed higher values than those of NAEOMs and HCs (p < 0.05); there were no differences between NAEOMs and HCs (p = 0.26). Parameters of involved muscles showed no different from those of NAEOMs excluding 25th, 50th percentiles, and standard deviation (SD) (p < 0.05). NAEOMs displayed higher values of 90th, 95th percentiles, SD, skewness, inhomogeneity, and entropy than HCs (p < 0.05). ROC curve analysis of entropy yielded the best area under the ROC curve (AUC; 0.816) for differentiating NAEOMs and HCs. After treatment, histogram parameters including 5th, 75th, 90th, and 95th percentiles, SD, kurtosis, inhomogeneity, and entropy were reduced in NAEOMs (p < 0.05). T2 histogram analysis could detect early involvement of EOMs in TAO prior to detection on conventional orbital MRI.

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