期刊
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE
卷 85, 期 2, 页码 748-761出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.28454
关键词
cell size; cytometry; diffusion; distribution; MRI; oscillating gradient; volume fraction
资金
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [RO1HD094381]
- BrightFocus Foundation [A2017330S]
- American Cancer Society [58-009-56]
- NIH [F32CA216942, K25CA168936, P30CA068485, R01CA109106, R01CA173593, S10OD021771, U01CA142565, UL1TR000445, UL1TR002243]
- National Institute on Aging [RO1AG053548]
The study presents a new MRI-cytometry method for noninvasively mapping nonparametric cell size distributions in tissues. Results from simulations and experiments confirm the reliability of the method in mapping cell size distributions, with potential applications in breast cancer patients.
Purpose This report introduces and validates a new diffusion MRI-based method, termedMRI-cytometry, which can noninvasively map intravoxel, nonparametric cell size distributions in tissues. Methods MRI was used to acquire diffusion MRI signals with a range of diffusion times and gradient factors, and a model was fit to these data to derive estimates of cell size distributions. We implemented a 2-step fitting method to avoid noise-induced artificial peaks and provide reliable estimates of tumor cell size distributions. Computer simulations in silico, experimental measurements on cultured cells in vitro, and animal xenografts in vivo were used to validate the accuracy and precision of the method. Tumors in 7 patients with breast cancer were also imaged and analyzed using this MRI-cytometry approach on a clinical 3 Tesla MRI scanner. Results Simulations and experimental results confirm that MRI-cytometry can reliably map intravoxel, nonparametric cell size distributions and has the potential to discriminate smaller and larger cells. The application in breast cancer patients demonstrates the feasibility of direct translation of MRI-cytometry to clinical applications. Conclusion The proposed MRI-cytometry method can characterize nonparametric cell size distributions in human tumors, which potentially provides a practical imaging approach to derive specific histopathological information on biological tissues.
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