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This study aims to investigate the value of spectral CT in the quantitative assessment of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) with different degrees of differentiation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      There were 191 patients with proven ESCC who underwent enhanced spectral CT from June 2018 to March 2020 retrospectively enrolled. These patients were divided into three groups based on pathological results: well differentiated ESCC, moderately differentiated ESCC, and poorly differentiated ESCC. Virtual monoenergetic 40\u00a0keV-equivalent image (VMI\n                      <jats:sub>40keV<\/jats:sub>\n                      ), iodine concentration (IC), water concentration (WC), effective atomic number (Eff-Z), and the slope of the spectral curve(\u03bb\n                      <jats:sub>HU<\/jats:sub>\n                      ) of the arterial phase (AP) and venous phase (VP) were measured or calculated. The quantitative parameters of the three groups were compared by using one-way ANOVA and pairwise comparisons were performed with LSD. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was used to evaluate the diagnostic performance of these parameters in poorly differentiated groups and non-poorly differentiated groups.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      There were significant differences in VMI\n                      <jats:sub>40keV<\/jats:sub>\n                      , IC, Eff-Z, and \u03bb\n                      <jats:sub>HU<\/jats:sub>\n                      in AP and VP among the three groups (all\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.05) except for WC (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&gt;\u20090.05). The VMI\n                      <jats:sub>40keV<\/jats:sub>\n                      , IC, Eff-Z, and \u03bb\n                      <jats:sub>HU<\/jats:sub>\n                      in the poorly differentiated group were significantly higher than those in the other groups both in AP and VP (all\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.05). In the ROC analysis, IC performed the best in the identification of the poorly differentiated group and non-poorly differentiated group in VP (AUC\u2009=\u20090.729, Sensitivity\u2009=\u20090.829, and Specificity\u2009=\u20090.569 under the threshold of 21.08\u00a0mg\/ml).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Quantitative parameters of spectral CT could offer supplemental information for the preoperative differential diagnosis of ESCC with different degrees of differentiation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12880-023-01068-5","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,23]],"date-time":"2023-08-23T12:03:20Z","timestamp":1692792200000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Spectral CT - a new supplementary method for preoperative assessment of pathological grades of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Yi","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Weizhong","family":"Tian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Shuangfeng","family":"Tian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Liang","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Jianguo","family":"Xia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7503-5222","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ji","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,23]]},"reference":[{"issue":"3","key":"1068_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"209","DOI":"10.3322\/caac.21660","volume":"71","author":"H Sung","year":"2021","unstructured":"Sung H, Ferlay J, Siegel RL, Laversanne M, Soerjomataram I, Jemal A, Bray F. 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