Journal
MOLECULAR IMAGING AND BIOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages 787-795Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11307-021-01604-1
Keywords
Glioblastoma; Brain metastasis; Physiological MRI; Hypoxia; Angiogenesis
Funding
- German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft -DFG) [STA 1331/3-1, DO 721/9-]
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The study evaluated a physiological MRI approach that showed significant differences in the pathophysiology of GB and BM, and has potential to noninvasively distinguish these two brain tumors using this method.
Purpose Glioblastomas (GB) and solitary brain metastases (BM) are the most common brain tumors in adults. GB and BM may appear similar in conventional magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI). Their management strategies, however, are quite different with significant consequences on clinical outcome. The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of a previously presented physiological MRI approach scoping to obtain quantitative information about microvascular architecture and perfusion, neovascularization activity, and oxygen metabolism to differentiate GB from BM. Procedures Thirty-three consecutive patients with newly diagnosed, untreated, and histopathologically confirmed GB or BM were preoperatively examined with our physiological MRI approach as part of the cMRI protocol. Results Physiological MRI biomarker maps revealed several significant differences in the pathophysiology of GB and BM: Central necrosis was more hypoxic in GB than in BM (30 %; P = 0.036), which was associated with higher neovascularization activity (65 %; P = 0.043) and metabolic rate of oxygen (48 %; P = 0.004) in the adjacent contrast-enhancing viable tumor parts of GB. In peritumoral edema, GB infiltration caused neovascularization activity (93 %; P = 0.018) and higher microvascular perfusion (30 %; P = 0.022) associated with higher tissue oxygen tension (33 %; P = 0.020) and lower oxygen extraction from vasculature (32 %; P = 0.040). Conclusion Our physiological MRI approach, which requires only 7 min of extra data acquisition time, might be helpful to noninvasively distinguish GB and BM based on pathophysiological differences. However, further studies including more patients are required.
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