1. The Value of APTw CEST MRI in Routine Clinical Assessment of Human Brain Tumor Patients at 3T
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Julia P. Lingl, Arthur Wunderlich, Steffen Goerke, Daniel Paech, Mark E. Ladd, Patrick Liebig, Andrej Pala, Soung Yung Kim, Michael Braun, Bernd L. Schmitz, Meinrad Beer, and Johannes Rosskopf
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CEST ,APTw ,brain tumor ,MRI ,Medicine (General) ,R5-920 - Abstract
Background. With fast-growing evidence in literature for clinical applications of chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), this prospective study aimed at applying amide proton transfer-weighted (APTw) CEST imaging in a clinical setting to assess its diagnostic potential in differentiation of intracranial tumors at 3 tesla (T). Methods. Using the asymmetry magnetization transfer ratio (MTRasym) analysis, CEST signals were quantitatively investigated in the tumor areas and in a similar sized region of the normal-appearing white matter (NAWM) on the contralateral hemisphere of 27 patients with intracranial tumors. Area under curve (AUC) analyses were used and results were compared to perfusion-weighted imaging (PWI). Results. Using APTw CEST, contrast-enhancing tumor areas showed significantly higher APTw CEST metrics than contralateral NAWM (AUC = 0.82; p < 0.01). In subgroup analyses of each tumor entity vs. NAWM, statistically significant effects were yielded for glioblastomas (AUC = 0.96; p < 0.01) and for meningiomas (AUC = 1.0; p < 0.01) but not for lymphomas as well as metastases (p > 0.05). PWI showed results comparable to APTw CEST in glioblastoma (p < 0.01). Conclusions. This prospective study confirmed the high diagnostic potential of APTw CEST imaging in a routine clinical setting to differentiate brain tumors.
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- 2022
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