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Table 4 Agreement of radiological categorical variables before and after SBRT

From: Response assessment after stereotactic body radiation therapy for spine and non-spine bone metastases: results from a single institutional study

Before SBRT

After SBRT

k

CT appearance

Osteolytic

Osteoblastic

Mixed

  

Osteolytic

8 (100%)

0 (0.0%)

1 (14.3%)

 

0.84

Osteoblastic

0 (0.0%)

14 (93.3%)

1 (14.3%)

  

Mixed

0 (0.0%)

1 (6.7%)

5 (71.4%)

  

T2 appearance

Homogenous bright

Dark spots

Totally dark signal intensity

Intermediary

 

Homogenous bright

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

1 (12.5%)

1 (25.0%)

-

Dark spots

0 (0.0%)

4 (57.1%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

 

Totally dark signal intensity

0 (0.0%)

3 (42.9%)

7 (87.5%)

1 (25.0%)

 

Intermediary

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

2 (50.0%)

 

T2 TIRM appearance

Homogenous bright

Dark spots

Totally dark signal intensity

Intermediary

 

Homogenous bright

2 (100.0%)

1 (50.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0.67

Dark spots

0 (0.0%)

1 (50.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

 

Totally dark signal intensity

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

1 (50.0%)

0 (0.0%)

 

Intermediary

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

1 (50.0%)

2 (100.0%)

 

T1 signal native appearance

Homogenous bright

Dark spots

Totally dark signal intensity

Intermediary

 

Homogenous bright

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0.30

Dark spots

0 (0.0%)

1 (33.3%)

1 (7.1%)

0 (0.0%)

 

Totally dark signal intensity

0 (0.0%)

2 (66.7%)

11 (78.6%)

2 (50.0%)

 

Intermediary

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

2 (14.3%)

2 (50.0%)

 

T1 CE signal appearance

No enhancement

Slight enhancement

Bright enhancement

  

No enhancement

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

 

0.14

Slight enhancement

3 (75.0%)

9 (81.8%)

3 (60.0%)

  

Bright enhancement

1 (25.0%)

2 (18.2%)

2 (40.0%)

  

Contrast enhancement

Yes

No

   

Yes

17 (100.0%)

6 (66.7%)

  

0.40

No

0 (0.0%)

3 (33.3%)

   

Soft component

Yes

No

   

Yes

9 (75.0%)

2 (5.3%)

  

0.72

No

3 (25.0%)

36 (94.7%)

   
  1. SBRT, stereotactic body radiotherapy; CT, computed tomography; T2 TIRM, T2-weighted