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Purpose: To compare the T staging of potentially resectable esophageal cancer (EC)using free-breathing radial VIBE (r-VIBE) and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) with pathologic confirmation of the T stage.Materials and Methods: Patients with endoscopically proven EC and indeterminate T1/T2/T3/T4a stage by CT and EUS were imaged on a 3T MR scanner.The MRI protocol included r-VIBE with spatial resolution of 1.0 mm × 1.0 mm × 1.0 mm at 160 second after contrast injection.Two independent readers assessed the image quality using a 5-point scale,and quantified the T-stage on r-VIBE.One endoscopist assessed the T stage on EUS.The T stages for r-VIBE and EUS were compared with post-operative pathologic confirmation,which was considered as the gold standard.Inter-reader agreement was also calculated.