Ronnie Wirestam
Professor
Correlation between arterial blood volume obtained by arterial spin labelling and cerebral blood volume in intracranial tumours.
Författare
Summary, in English
OBJECTIVE: To compare measurements of the arterial blood volume (aBV), a perfusion parameter calculated from arterial spin labelling (ASL), and cerebral blood volume (CBV), calculated from dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) MRI. In the clinic, CBV is used for grading of intracranial tumours. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Estimates of aBV from the model-free ASL technique quantitative STAR labelling of arterial regions (QUASAR) experiment and of DSC-CBV were obtained at 3T in ten patients with eleven tumours (three grade III gliomas, four glioblastomas and four meningiomas, two in one patient). Parametric values of aBV and CBV were determined in the tumour as well as in normal grey matter (GM), and tumour-to-GM aBV and CBV ratios were calculated. RESULTS: In a 4-pixel ROI representing maximal tumour values, the coefficient of determination R (2) was 0.61 for the comparison of ASL-based aBV tumour-to-GM ratios and DSC-MRI-based CBV tumour-to-GM ratios and 0.29 for the comparison of parametric values of ASL-aBV and DSC-CBV, under the assumption of proportionality. Both aBV and CBV showed a non-significant tendency to increase when going from grade III gliomas to glioblastomas to meningiomas. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that measurement of aBV is a potential tool for non-invasive assessment of blood volume in intracranial tumours.
Avdelning/ar
- MultiPark: Multidisciplinary research focused on Parkinson´s disease
- eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
- Neuroradiologi
- Diagnostisk radiologi, Lund
- Medicinsk strålningsfysik, Lund
- MR Physics
Publiceringsår
2011
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
211-223
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Magma
Volym
24
Fulltext
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging
Aktiv
Published
Projekt
- MRI brain perfusion quantification at 3 tesla using arterial spin labeling
Forskningsgrupp
- Neuroradiology
- MR Physics
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1352-8661