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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NEURORADIOLOGY
卷 31, 期 2, 页码 269-274出版社
AMER SOC NEURORADIOLOGY
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1799
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- National Science Council Taiwan [NSC98-2314-B-182-036-MY2]
- Chang Gung Memorial Hospital [CMRPG380301]
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Outcome evaluation in clinical oncology is conventionally based on long-term volumetric changes in the tumor size. The purpose of this study was to prospectively investigate the usefulness of fDMs in incorporating anisotropic diffusion in the evaluation of early response after radiosurgery in patients with vestibular schwannoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The MID, FA, and IVDC were calculated by using simple averaging methods and fDMs. Six patients with vestibular schwannoma treated with stereotactic radiosurgery underwent longitudinal DTI studies on a 3T MR imaging scanner (maximum follow-up, 6 months), Posttreatment DTI data were spatially coregistered with pretreatment scans. RESULTS: Tumors did not change significantly in size until 6 months after treatment. Diffusion indices changed significantly during the study period. There was a transient decrease in averaged MD followed by a significant increase. IVDC showed an opposite behavior compared with MD. FA decreased continuously throughout the study period. Functional diffusion maps showed a heterogeneous response of tumors to treatment, thereby providing complementary information to simple averaged values. CONCLUSIONS: DTI allows early detection of therapeutic-induced changes in patients with vestibular schwannoma. Functional diffusion maps incorporating anisotropic diffusion may aid in assessing the heterogeneity of the therapeutic response in this patient group.
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