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Yang F, Li X, Li Y, Lei H, Du Q, Yu X, Li L, Zhao Y, Xie L, Lin M. Histogram analysis of quantitative parameters from synthetic MRI: correlations with prognostic factors in nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Eur Radiol 2023; 33:5344-5354. [PMID: 37036478 DOI: 10.1007/s00330-023-09553-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2022] [Revised: 01/30/2023] [Accepted: 02/17/2023] [Indexed: 04/11/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To evaluate the correlation between histogram parameters derived from synthetic magnetic resonance imaging (SyMRI) and prognostically relevant factors in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). METHODS Fifty-nine consecutive NPC patients were prospectively enrolled. Quantitative parameters (T1, T2, and proton density (PD)) were obtained by outlining the three-dimensional volume of interest (VOI) of all lesions. Then, histogram analysis of these quantitative parameters was performed and the correlations with prognostically relevant factors were assessed. By choosing appropriate cutoff, we divided the sample into two groups. Independent-samples t test/Mann-Whitney U test was used and ROC curve analysis was further processed. RESULTS Histogram parameters of the T1, T2, and PD maps were positively correlated with the Ki-67 expression levels, and PD_mean was the most representative parameter (AUC: 0.861). The PD map exhibited good performance in differentiating epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) expression levels (AUC: 0.706~0.732) and histological type (AUC: 0.650~0.660). T2_minimum was highest correlated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA levels (r = - 0.419), and PD_75th percentile exhibited the highest performance in distinguishing positive and negative EBV DNA groups (AUC: 0.721). T1_minimum was statistically correlated with EA-IgA expression (r = - 0.313). Additionally, several histogram parameters were negatively correlated with tumor stage (T stage: r = - 0.259 ~ - 0.301; N stage: r = - 0.348 ~ - 0.456; clinical stage: r = - 0.419). CONCLUSIONS Histogram parameters of SyMRI could reflect tissue intrinsic characteristics and showed potential value in assessing the Ki-67 and EGFR expression levels, histological type, EBV DNA level, EA-IgA, and tumor stage. KEY POINTS • SyMRI combined with histogram analysis may help clinicians to assess different prognostic factor statuses in nasopharyngeal carcinoma. • The PD map exhibited good discriminating performance in the Ki-67 and EGFR expression levels. • Histogram parameters of SyMRI were negatively correlated with EBV-related blood biomarkers and TNM stage.
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- Fan Yang
- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China
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- Department of Pathology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China
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- Department of Pathology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China
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- MR Research China, GE Healthcare, Beijing, China
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China.
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Schneider TM, Ma J, Wagner P, Behl N, Nagel AM, Ladd ME, Heiland S, Bendszus M, Straub S. Multiparametric MRI for Characterization of the Basal Ganglia and the Midbrain. Front Neurosci 2021; 15:661504. [PMID: 34234639 PMCID: PMC8255625 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.661504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2021] [Accepted: 05/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Objectives To characterize subcortical nuclei by multi-parametric quantitative magnetic resonance imaging. Materials and Methods: The following quantitative multiparametric MR data of five healthy volunteers were acquired on a 7T MRI system: 3D gradient echo (GRE) data for the calculation of quantitative susceptibility maps (QSM), GRE sequences with and without off-resonant magnetic transfer pulse for magnetization transfer ratio (MTR) calculation, a magnetization−prepared 2 rapid acquisition gradient echo sequence for T1 mapping, and (after a coil change) a density-adapted 3D radial pulse sequence for 23Na imaging. First, all data were co-registered to the GRE data, volumes of interest (VOIs) for 21 subcortical structures were drawn manually for each volunteer, and a combined voxel-wise analysis of the four MR contrasts (QSM, MTR, T1, 23Na) in each structure was conducted to assess the quantitative, MR value-based differentiability of structures. Second, a machine learning algorithm based on random forests was trained to automatically classify the groups of multi-parametric voxel values from each VOI according to their association to one of the 21 subcortical structures. Results The analysis of the integrated multimodal visualization of quantitative MR values in each structure yielded a successful classification among nuclei of the ascending reticular activation system (ARAS), the limbic system and the extrapyramidal system, while classification among (epi-)thalamic nuclei was less successful. The machine learning-based approach facilitated quantitative MR value-based structure classification especially in the group of extrapyramidal nuclei and reached an overall accuracy of 85% regarding all selected nuclei. Conclusion Multimodal quantitative MR enabled excellent differentiation of a wide spectrum of subcortical nuclei with reasonable accuracy and may thus enable sensitive detection of disease and nucleus-specific MR-based contrast alterations in the future.
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- Till M Schneider
- Department of Neuroradiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Artificial Intelligence, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Artificial Intelligence, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany
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- Division of Medical Physics in Radiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Medical Physics in Radiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany.,Institute of Radiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Division of Medical Physics in Radiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany.,Faculty of Physics and Astronomy and Faculty of Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Medical Physics in Radiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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Lee VM, Burdett NG, Carpenter TA, Herrod NJ, James MF, Hall LD. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Common Marmoset Head. Altern Lab Anim 2020. [DOI: 10.1177/026119299802600309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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This study evaluated the changes in the intrinsic magnetic resonance (MR) relaxation parameter values (T1; T2, proton density, magnetisation transfer and apparent diffusion coefficient) of the marmoset head, imaged before and after death. Knowing the absolute values of the MR parameters makes it possible to choose an imaging protocol for optimal structural differentiation. The changes between the ante-mortem and post-mortem MR parameters provide an insight into the changing biophysical microenvironment of the post-mortem brain, and allow some of the changes that occur in pathological conditions to be predicted. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging (MRI) was used to map quantitative apparent diffusion coefficient values, and to investigate diffusional anisotropy along the fibre tracts in pre-mortem and post-mortem brain tissue. A three-dimensional data set of the entire marmoset brain demonstrates the ability of three-dimensional MRI to differentiate internal brain structures. MRI is a non-invasive technique which, in principle, permits the same animal to be re-imaged serially and has the potential to probe in vivo brain structural and biophysical changes over an extended period of time. Serial imaging, where each animal acts as its own control, reduces the number of animals required to detect a significant change by minimising the effects of inter-subject variance. MRI therefore provides important scientific and ethical benefits.
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- Vee-Meng Lee
- The Herchel Smith Laboratory for Medicinal Chemistry, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 2PZ, UK
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- The Herchel Smith Laboratory for Medicinal Chemistry, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 2PZ, UK
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- The Herchel Smith Laboratory for Medicinal Chemistry, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 2PZ, UK
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- The Herchel Smith Laboratory for Medicinal Chemistry, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 2PZ, UK
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- SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, New Frontiers Science Park (North), Third Avenue, Harlow, Essex CM19 5AW, UK
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- The Herchel Smith Laboratory for Medicinal Chemistry, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 2PZ, UK
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Li LZ. A pre-tracer approach for improving the accuracy of metabolic measurements by hyperpolarized nuclear magnetic resonance. Quant Imaging Med Surg 2016; 6:612-614. [PMID: 27942482 DOI: 10.21037/qims.2016.10.04] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Lin Z Li
- Molecular Imaging Laboratory, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Britton Chance Laboratory of Redox Imaging, Johnson Research Foundation, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Institute of Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Boult JKR, Borri M, Jury A, Popov S, Box G, Perryman L, Eccles SA, Jones C, Robinson SP. Investigating intracranial tumour growth patterns with multiparametric MRI incorporating Gd-DTPA and USPIO-enhanced imaging. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 2016; 29:1608-1617. [PMID: 27671990 PMCID: PMC5082561 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2015] [Revised: 07/06/2016] [Accepted: 07/07/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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High grade and metastatic brain tumours exhibit considerable spatial variations in proliferation, angiogenesis, invasion, necrosis and oedema. Vascular heterogeneity arising from vascular co-option in regions of invasive growth (in which the blood-brain barrier remains intact) and neoangiogenesis is a major challenge faced in the assessment of brain tumours by conventional MRI. A multiparametric MRI approach, incorporating native measurements and both Gd-DTPA (Magnevist) and ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide (P904)-enhanced imaging, was used in combination with histogram and unsupervised cluster analysis using a k-means algorithm to examine the spatial distribution of vascular parameters, water diffusion characteristics and invasion in intracranially propagated rat RG2 gliomas and human MDA-MB-231 LM2-4 breast adenocarcinomas in mice. Both tumour models presented with higher ΔR1 (the change in transverse relaxation rate R1 induced by Gd-DTPA), fractional blood volume (fBV) and apparent diffusion coefficient than uninvolved regions of the brain. MDA-MB-231 LM2-4 tumours were less densely cellular than RG2 tumours and exhibited substantial local invasion, associated with oedema, whereas invasion in RG2 tumours was minimal. These additional features were reflected in the more heterogeneous appearance of MDA-MB-231 LM2-4 tumours on T2 -weighted images and maps of functional MRI parameters. Unsupervised cluster analysis separated subregions with distinct functional properties; areas with a low fBV and relatively impermeable blood vessels (low ΔR1 ) were predominantly located at the tumour margins, regions of MDA-MB-231 LM2-4 tumours with relatively high levels of water diffusion and low vascular permeability and/or fBV corresponded to histologically identified regions of invasion and oedema, and areas of mismatch between vascular permeability and blood volume were identified. We demonstrate that dual contrast MRI and evaluation of tissue diffusion properties, coupled with cluster analysis, allows for the assessment of heterogeneity within invasive brain tumours and the designation of functionally diverse subregions that may provide more informative predictive biomarkers.
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- Jessica K R Boult
- Division of Radiotherapy and Imaging, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK.
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- Division of Radiotherapy and Imaging, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
- Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, Surrey, UK
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
- Division of Cancer Therapeutics, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
- Division of Cancer Therapeutics, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Cancer Therapeutics, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
- Division of Cancer Therapeutics, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Cancer Therapeutics, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
- Division of Cancer Therapeutics, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Radiotherapy and Imaging, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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Ryu JK, Rhee SJ, Song JY, Cho SH, Jahng GH. Characteristics of quantitative perfusion parameters on dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI in mammographically occult breast cancer. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2016; 17:377-390. [PMID: 27685105 PMCID: PMC5874120 DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v17i5.6091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2015] [Revised: 04/27/2016] [Accepted: 04/25/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The purpose of this study was to compare the characteristics of quantitative per-fusion parameters obtained from dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with mammographically occult (MO) breast cancers and those with mammographically visible (MV) breast cancers. Quantitative parameters (AUC, Ktrans, kep, ve, vp, and wi) from 13 MO breast cancers and 16 MV breast cancers were mapped after the DCE-MRI data were acquired. Various prog-nostic factors, including axillary nodal status, estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), Ki-67, p53, E-cadherin, and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) were obtained in each group. Fisher's exact test was used to compare any differences of the various prognostic factors between the two groups. The Mann- Whitney U test was applied to compare the quantitative parameters between these two groups. Finally, Spearman's correlation was used to investigate the relation-ships between perfusion indices and four factors - age, tumor size, Ki-67, and p53 - for each group. Although age, tumor size, and the prognostic factors were not statistically different between the two groups, the mean values of the quantitative parameters, except wi in the MV group, were higher than those in the MO group without statistical significance (p = 0.219). The kep value was significantly differ-ent between the two groups (p = 0.048), but the other parameters were not. In the MO group, vp with size, ve with p53, and Ktrans and vp with Ki-67 had significant correlations (p < 0.05). However, in the MV group, only kep showed significant correlation with age. The kep value was only the perfusion parameter of statistical significance between MO and MV breast cancers.
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- Jung Kyu Ryu
- Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gandong, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University.
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Tailoring nanoparticle designs to target cancer based on tumor pathophysiology. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016; 113:E1142-51. [PMID: 26884153 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1521265113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Nanoparticles can provide significant improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. How nanoparticle size, shape, and surface chemistry can affect their accumulation, retention, and penetration in tumors remains heavily investigated, because such findings provide guiding principles for engineering optimal nanosystems for tumor targeting. Currently, the experimental focus has been on particle design and not the biological system. Here, we varied tumor volume to determine whether cancer pathophysiology can influence tumor accumulation and penetration of different sized nanoparticles. Monte Carlo simulations were also used to model the process of nanoparticle accumulation. We discovered that changes in pathophysiology associated with tumor volume can selectively change tumor uptake of nanoparticles of varying size. We further determine that nanoparticle retention within tumors depends on the frequency of interaction of particles with the perivascular extracellular matrix for smaller nanoparticles, whereas transport of larger nanomaterials is dominated by Brownian motion. These results reveal that nanoparticles can potentially be personalized according to a patient's disease state to achieve optimal diagnostic and therapeutic outcomes.
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Ravoori MK, Nishimura M, Singh SP, Lu C, Han L, Hobbs BP, Pradeep S, Choi HJ, Bankson JA, Sood AK, Kundra V. Tumor T1 Relaxation Time for Assessing Response to Bevacizumab Anti-Angiogenic Therapy in a Mouse Ovarian Cancer Model. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0131095. [PMID: 26098849 PMCID: PMC4476738 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2014] [Accepted: 05/28/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Purpose To assess whether T1 relaxation time of tumors may be used to assess response to bevacizumab anti-angiogenic therapy. Procedures: 12 female nude mice bearing subcutaneous SKOV3ip1-LC ovarian tumors were administered bevacizumab (6.25ug/g, n=6) or PBS (control, n=6) therapy twice a week for two weeks. T1 maps of tumors were generated before, two days, and 2 weeks after initiating therapy. Tumor weight was assessed by MR and at necropsy. Histology for microvessel density, proliferation, and apoptosis was performed. Results Bevacizumab treatment resulted in tumor growth inhibition (p<0.04, n=6), confirming therapeutic efficacy. Tumor T1 relaxation times increased in bevacizumab treated mice 2 days and 2 weeks after initiating therapy (p<.05, n=6). Microvessel density decreased 59% and cell proliferation (Ki67+) decreased 50% in the bevacizumab treatment group (p<.001, n=6), but not apoptosis. Conclusions Findings suggest that increased tumor T1 relaxation time is associated with response to bevacizumab therapy in ovarian cancer model and might serve as an early indicator of response.
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- Murali K. Ravoori
- Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, U.T.- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan
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- Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, U.T.- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Gynecologic Oncology, U.T.- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, U.T.- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, U.T.- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Gynecologic Oncology, U.T.- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Gynecologic Oncology, U.T.- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Imaging Physics, U.T.- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Gynecologic Oncology, U.T.- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Cancer Biology, U.T.- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Center for RNA Interference and Non-Coding RNA, U.T.- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, U.T.- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Radiology, U.T.- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Kim E, Lee E, Plummer C, Gil S, Popel AS, Pathak AP. Vasculature-specific MRI reveals differential anti-angiogenic effects of a biomimetic peptide in an orthotopic breast cancer model. Angiogenesis 2015; 18:125-36. [PMID: 25408417 PMCID: PMC4366284 DOI: 10.1007/s10456-014-9450-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2014] [Accepted: 11/09/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Translational vasculature-specific MRI biomarkers were used to measure the effects of a novel anti-angiogenic biomimetic peptide in an orthotopic MDA-MB-231 human triple-negative breast cancer model at an early growth stage. In vivo diffusion-weighted and steady-state susceptibility contrast (SSC) MRI was performed pre-treatment and 2 weeks post-treatment in tumor volume-matched treatment and control groups (n = 5/group). Treatment response was measured by changes in tumor volume; baseline transverse relaxation time (T2); apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC); and SSC-MRI metrics of blood volume, vessel size, and vessel density. These vasculature-specific SSC-MRI biomarkers were compared to the more conventional, non-vascular biomarkers (tumor growth, ADC, and T2) in terms of their sensitivity to anti-angiogenic treatment response. After 2 weeks of peptide treatment, tumor growth inhibition was evident but not yet significant, and the changes in ADC or T2 were not significantly different between treated and control groups. In contrast, the vascular MRI biomarkers revealed a significant anti-angiogenic response to the peptide after 2 weeks—blood volume and vessel size decreased, and vessel density increased in treated tumors; the opposite was seen in control tumors. The MRI results were validated with histology—H&E staining showed no difference in tumor viability between groups, while peptide-treated tumors exhibited decreased vascularity. These results indicate that translational SSC-MRI biomarkers are able to detect the differential effects of anti-angiogenic therapy on the tumor vasculature before significant tumor growth inhibition or changes in tumor viability.
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- Eugene Kim
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
- Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 720 Rutland Ave, 217 Traylor Bldg., Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
- Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 720 Rutland Ave, 217 Traylor Bldg., Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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Weidensteiner C, Allegrini PR, Sticker-Jantscheff M, Romanet V, Ferretti S, McSheehy PMJ. Tumour T1 changes in vivo are highly predictive of response to chemotherapy and reflect the number of viable tumour cells--a preclinical MR study in mice. BMC Cancer 2014; 14:88. [PMID: 24528602 PMCID: PMC3932835 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-14-88] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2013] [Accepted: 02/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Effective chemotherapy rapidly reduces the spin–lattice relaxation of water protons (T1) in solid tumours and this change (ΔT1) often precedes and strongly correlates with the eventual change in tumour volume (TVol). To understand the biological nature of ΔT1, we have performed studies in vivo and ex vivo with the allosteric mTOR inhibitor, everolimus. Methods Mice bearing RIF-1 tumours were studied by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to determine TVol and T1, and MR spectroscopy (MRS) to determine levels of the proliferation marker choline and levels of lipid apoptosis markers, prior to and 5 days (endpoint) after daily treatment with vehicle or everolimus (10 mg/kg). At the endpoint, tumours were ablated and an entire section analysed for cellular and necrotic quantification and staining for the proliferation antigen Ki67 and cleaved-caspase-3 as a measure of apoptosis. The number of blood-vessels (BV) was evaluated by CD31 staining. Mice bearing B16/BL6 melanoma tumours were studied by MRI to determine T1 under similar everolimus treatment. At the endpoint, cell bioluminescence of the tumours was measured ex vivo. Results Everolimus blocked RIF-1 tumour growth and significantly reduced tumour T1 and total choline (Cho) levels, and increased polyunsaturated fatty-acids which are markers of apoptosis. Immunohistochemistry showed that everolimus reduced the %Ki67+ cells but did not affect caspase-3 apoptosis, necrosis, BV-number or cell density. The change in T1 (ΔT1) correlated strongly with the changes in TVol and Cho and %Ki67+. In B16/BL6 tumours, everolimus also decreased T1 and this correlated with cell bioluminescence; another marker of cell viability. Receiver-operating-characteristic curves (ROC) for everolimus on RIF-1 tumours showed that ΔT1 had very high levels of sensitivity and specificity (ROCAUC = 0.84) and this was confirmed for the cytotoxic patupilone in the same tumour model (ROCAUC = 0.97). Conclusion These studies suggest that ΔT1 is not a measure of cell density but reflects the decreased number of remaining viable and proliferating tumour cells due to perhaps cell and tissue destruction releasing proteins and/or metals that cause T1 relaxation. ΔT1 is a highly sensitive and specific predictor of response. This MRI method provides the opportunity to stratify a patient population during tumour therapy in the clinic.
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Role of convection and diffusion on DCE-MRI parameters in low leakiness KHT sarcomas. Microvasc Res 2012; 84:306-13. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2012.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2012] [Revised: 08/17/2012] [Accepted: 09/06/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Chung SH, Yu H, Su MY, Cerussi AE, Tromberg BJ. Molecular imaging of water binding state and diffusion in breast cancer using diffuse optical spectroscopy and diffusion weighted MRI. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2012; 17:071304. [PMID: 22894465 PMCID: PMC3381027 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.17.7.071304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Tissue water content and molecular microenvironment can provide important intrinsic contrast for cancer imaging. In this work, we examine the relationship between water optical spectroscopic features related to binding state and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-measured water diffusion dynamics. Broadband diffuse optical spectroscopic imaging (DOSI) and MR images were obtained from eight patients with locally-advanced infiltrating ductal carcinomas (tumor size=5.5 ± 3.2 cm). A DOSI-derived bound water index (BWI) was compared to the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of diffusion weighted (DW) MRI. BWI and ADC were positively correlated (R=0.90, p-value=0.003) and BWI and ADC both decreased as the bulk water content increased (R=-0.81 and -0.89, respectively). BWI correlated inversely with tumor size (R=-0.85, p-value=0.008). Our results suggest underlying sensitivity differences between BWI and ADC to water in different tissue compartments (e.g., extracellular vs cellular). These data highlight the potential complementary role of DOSI and DW-MRI in providing detailed information on the molecular disposition of water in breast tumors. Because DOSI is a portable technology that can be used at the bedside, BWI may provide a low-cost measure of tissue water properties related to breast cancer biology.
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- So Hyun Chung
- University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 209 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6396
- Address all correspondence to: So Hyun Chung, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 209 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6396. Tel: +215-898-6833; Fax: +215-573-6391; E-mail:
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- University of California, Irvine, Department of Radiological Sciences and Tu & Yuen Center for Functional Onco Imaging, 164 Irvine Hall, Irvine, California 92697
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- University of California, Irvine, Department of Radiological Sciences and Tu & Yuen Center for Functional Onco Imaging, 164 Irvine Hall, Irvine, California 92697
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- University of California, Irvine, Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, 1002 Health Sciences Road, Irvine, California 92612
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- University of California, Irvine, Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, 1002 Health Sciences Road, Irvine, California 92612
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Yao X, Zeng M, Wang H, Sun F, Rao S, Ji Y. Evaluation of pancreatic cancer by multiple breath-hold dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging at 3.0T. Eur J Radiol 2012; 81:e917-22. [PMID: 22695786 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2012.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2011] [Revised: 05/12/2012] [Accepted: 05/16/2012] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the microcirculation in pancreatic cancer by pharmacokinetic analysis of multiple breath-hold dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging at 3.0T. MATERIALS AND METHODS Multiple breath-hold dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging was performed in 40 healthy volunteers and 40 patients with pancreatic cancer proven by histopathology using an axial three-dimensions fat-saturated T1-weighted spoiled-gradient echo sequence at 3.0T. A two compartment model with T1 correction was used to quantify the transfer constant, the rate constant of backflux from the extravascular extracellular space to the plasma and the extravascular extracellular space fractional volume in pancreatic cancer, obstructive pancreatitis distal to the malignant tumor, adjacent pancreatic tissue proximal to the tumor and normal pancreas. All parameters were statistically analyzed. RESULTS Statistical differences were noticed in both the transfer constant (p=0.000075) and the rate constant of backflux (p=0.006) among different tissues. Both the transfer constant and the rate constant of backflux in pancreatic cancer were statistically lower than those in normal pancreas and adjacent pancreatic tissue (p<0.05). Both the transfer constant and the rate constant of backflux in obstructive pancreatitis were statistically lower than those in normal pancreas and adjacent pancreatic tissue (p<0.05). The extravascular extracellular space fractional volume in pancreatic cancer was statistically lager than that in normal pancreas (p=0.002). CONCLUSION Multiple breath-hold dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging offers a useful technique to evaluate the microenvironment in pancreatic cancer at 3.0T. Compared to normal pancreas, pancreatic cancer has lower transfer constant, rate constant of backflux and larger extravascular extracellular space fractional volume.
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- Xiuzhong Yao
- Department of Radiology, Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University and Department of Medical Image, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, No. 138, Fenglin Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200032, China.
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Gallagher FA, Kettunen MI, Brindle KM. Imaging pH with hyperpolarized 13C. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 2011; 24:1006-1015. [PMID: 21812047 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2010] [Revised: 03/23/2011] [Accepted: 04/05/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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pH is a fundamental physiological parameter that is tightly controlled by endogenous buffers. The acid-base balance is altered in many disease states, such as inflammation, ischemia and cancer. Despite the importance of pH, there are currently no routine methods for imaging the spatial distribution of pH in humans. The enormous gain in sensitivity afforded by dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) has provided a novel way in which to image tissue pH using MR, which has the potential to be translated into the clinic. This review explores the advantages and disadvantages of current pH imaging techniques and how they compare with DNP-based approaches for the measurement and imaging of pH with hyperpolarized (13)C. Intravenous injection of hyperpolarized (13)C-labeled bicarbonate results in the rapid production of hyperpolarized (13)CO(2) in the reaction catalyzed by carbonic anhydrase. As this reaction is close to equilibrium in the body and is pH dependent, the ratio of the (13)C signal intensities from H(13)CO(3)(-) and (13)CO(2), measured using MRS, can be used to calculate pH in vivo. The application of this technique to a murine tumor model demonstrated that it measured predominantly extracellular pH and could be mapped in the animal using spectroscopic imaging techniques. A second approach has been to use the production of hyperpolarized (13)CO(2) from hyperpolarized [1-(13)C]pyruvate to measure predominantly intracellular pH. In tissues with a high aerobic capacity, such as the heart, the hyperpolarized [1-(13)C]pyruvate undergoes rapid oxidative decarboxylation, catalyzed by intramitochondrial pyruvate dehydrogenase. Provided that there is sufficient carbonic anhydrase present to catalyze the rapid equilibration of the hyperpolarized (13)C label between CO(2) and bicarbonate, the ratio of their resonance intensities may again be used to estimate pH, which, in this case, is predominantly intracellular. As both pyruvate and bicarbonate are endogenous molecules they have the potential to image tissue pH in the clinic.
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- Ferdia A Gallagher
- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, and Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Boult JK, Walker-Samuel S, Jamin Y, Leiper JM, Whitley GSJ, Robinson SP. Active site mutant dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase 1 expression confers an intermediate tumour phenotype in C6 gliomas. J Pathol 2011; 225:344-52. [PMID: 21590769 DOI: 10.1002/path.2904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2011] [Revised: 02/16/2011] [Accepted: 03/17/2011] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase (DDAH) metabolizes the endogenous inhibitor of nitric oxide synthesis, asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA). Constitutive over-expression of DDAH1, the isoform primarily associated with neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) results in increased tumour growth and vascularization, and elevated VEGF secretion. To address whether DDAH1-mediated tumour growth is reliant upon the enzymatic activity of DDAH1, cell lines expressing an active site mutant of DDAH1 incapable of metabolizing ADMA were created. Xenografts derived from these cell lines grew significantly faster than those derived from control cells, yet not as fast as those over-expressing wild-type DDAH1. VEGF expression in DDAH1 mutant-expressing tumours did not differ from control tumours but was significantly lower than that of wild-type DDAH1-over-expressing tumours. Fluorescence microscopy for CD31 and pimonidazole adduct formation demonstrated that DDAH1 mutant-expressing tumours had a lower endothelial content and demonstrated less hypoxia, respectively, than wild-type DDAH1-expressing tumours. However, there was no difference in uptake of the perfusion marker Hoechst 33342. Non-invasive multiparametric quantitative MRI, including the measurement of native T(1) and T(2) relaxation times and apparent water diffusion coefficient, was indicative of higher cellularity in DDAH1-expressing xenografts, which was confirmed by histological quantification of necrosis. C6 xenografts expressing active site mutant DDAH1 displayed an intermediate phenotype between tumours over-expressing wild-type DDAH1 and control tumours. These data suggest that enhanced VEGF expression downstream of DDAH1 was dependent upon ADMA metabolism, but that the DDAH1-mediated increase in tumour growth was only partially dependent upon its enzymatic activity, and therefore must involve an as-yet unidentified mechanism. DDAH1 is an important mediator of tumour progression, but appears to have addition roles independent of its metabolism of ADMA, which need to be considered in therapeutic strategies targeted against the NO/DDAH pathway in cancer.
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- Jessica Kr Boult
- CRUK and EPSRC Cancer Imaging Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS Trust, Sutton, Surrey, UK
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Zhang H, Verkman AS. Microfiberoptic measurement of extracellular space volume in brain and tumor slices based on fluorescent dye partitioning. Biophys J 2010; 99:1284-91. [PMID: 20713014 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.06.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2010] [Revised: 05/24/2010] [Accepted: 06/03/2010] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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The fractional volume occupied by extracellular space in tissues, termed alpha, is an important parameter of tissue architecture that affects cellular functions and drug delivery. We report a technically simple fluorescent dye partitioning method to measure alpha in tissue slices based on microfiberoptic detection of dye fluorescence in tissue versus overlying solution. Microfiberoptic tip geometry and dyes were selected for alpha determination from fluorescence intensity ratios, without the need to correct for illumination profile, light scattering/absorption, or dye binding. The method was validated experimentally using cell-embedded gels of specified alpha-values and optical properties. In mouse brain slices, alpha was strongly location-dependent, ranging from 0.16 in thalamus to 0.22 in brainstem, and was sensitive to cell volume changes. Aquaporin-4 water channel gene deletion caused significant extracellular space expansion, with alpha = 0.181 +/- 0.002 in cortex in wild-type mice and 0.211 +/- 0.003 in Aquaporin-4 knockout mice. In slices of LLC1 cell tumors grown in mice to approximately 5 mm diameter, alpha decreased remarkably from approximately 0.45 in superficial tumor to <0.25 in deeper (>100 mum) tumor. Fluorescent dye partitioning with microfiberoptic detection permits rapid, accurate, and anisotropy-insensitive determination of alpha-values in tissue slices.
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- Hua Zhang
- Department of Medicine and Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
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McSheehy PMJ, Weidensteiner C, Cannet C, Ferretti S, Laurent D, Ruetz S, Stumm M, Allegrini PR. Quantified tumor t1 is a generic early-response imaging biomarker for chemotherapy reflecting cell viability. Clin Cancer Res 2009; 16:212-25. [PMID: 20008843 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-09-0686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE Identification of a generic response biomarker by comparison of chemotherapeutics with different action mechanisms on several noninvasive biomarkers in experimental tumor models. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN The spin-lattice relaxation time of water protons (T(1)) was quantified using an inversion recovery-TrueFISP magnetic resonance imaging method in eight different experimental tumor models before and after treatment at several different time points with five different chemotherapeutics. Effects on T(1) were compared with other minimally invasive biomarkers including vascular parameters, apparent diffusion coefficient, and interstitial fluid pressure, and were correlated with efficacy at the endpoint and histologic parameters. RESULTS In all cases, successful chemotherapy significantly lowered tumor T(1) compared with vehicle and the fractional change in T(1) (DeltaT(1)) correlated with the eventual change in tumor size (range: r(2) = 0.21, P < 0.05 to r(2) = 0.73, P < 0.0001), except for models specifically resistant to that drug. In RIF-1 tumors, interstitial fluid pressure was decreased, but apparent diffusion coefficient and permeability increased in response to the microtubule stabilizer patupilone and 5-fluorouracil. Although DeltaT(1) was small (maximum of -20%), the variability was very low (5%) compared with other magnetic resonance imaging methods (24-48%). Analyses ex vivo showed unchanged necrosis, increased apoptosis, and decreased %Ki67 and total choline, but only Ki67 and choline correlated with DeltaT(1). Correlation of Ki67 and DeltaT(1) were observed in other models using patupilone, paclitaxel, a VEGF-R inhibitor, and the mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor everolimus. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that a decrease in tumor T(1) reflects hypocellularity and is a generic marker of response. The speed and robustness of the method should facilitate its use in clinical trials.
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- Paul M J McSheehy
- Oncology Research and Global Imaging Group, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.
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Dortch RD, Yankeelov TE, Yue Z, Quarles CC, Gore JC, Does MD. Evidence of multiexponential T2 in rat glioblastoma. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 2009; 22:609-18. [PMID: 19267385 PMCID: PMC4178926 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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The aim of this study was to characterize multiexponential T(2) (MET(2)) relaxation in a rat C6 glioblastoma tumor model. To do this, rats (n = 11) were inoculated with the C6 cells via stereotaxic injection into the brain. Ten days later, MET(2) measurements were performed in vivo using a single-slice, multi-echo spin-echo sequence at 7.0 T. Tumor signal was biexponential in eight animals with a short-lived T(2) component (T(2) = 20.7 +/- 5.4 ms across samples) representing 6.8 +/- 6.2% of the total signal and a long-lived T(2) component (T(2) = 76.4 +/- 9.3 ms) representing the remaining signal fraction. In contrast, signal from contralateral grey matter was consistently monoexponential (T(2) = 48.8 +/- 2.3 ms). Additional ex vivo studies (n = 3) and Monte Carlo simulations showed that the in vivo results were not significantly corrupted by partial volume averaging or noise. The underlying physiological origin of the observed MET(2) components is unknown; however, MET(2) analysis may hold promise as a non-invasive tool for characterizing tumor microenvironment in vivo on a sub-voxel scale.
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- Richard D. Dortch
- Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
- Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
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- Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
- Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
- Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
- Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
- Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
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- Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
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- Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
- Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
- Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
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- Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
- Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
- Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
- Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
- Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
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- Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
- Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
- Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
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Raatschen HJ, Swain R, Shames DM, Fu Y, Boyd Z, Zierhut ML, Wendland MF, Misselwitz B, Weinmann HJ, Wolf KJ, Brasch RC. MRI tumor characterization using Gd-GlyMe-DOTA-perfluorooctyl-mannose-conjugate (Gadofluorine M), a protein-avid contrast agent. CONTRAST MEDIA & MOLECULAR IMAGING 2007; 1:113-20. [PMID: 17193687 DOI: 10.1002/cmmi.97] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The rationale and objectives were to define the MRI tumor-characterizing potential of a new protein-avid contrast agent, Gd-GlyMe-DOTA-perfluorooctyl-mannose-conjugate (Gadofluorine M; Schering AG, Berlin, Germany) in a chemically induced tumor model of varying malignancy. Because of the tendency for this agent to form large micelles in water and to bind strongly to hydrophobic sites on proteins, it was hypothesized that patterns of dynamic tumor enhancement could be used to differentiate benign from malignant lesions, to grade the severity of malignancies and to define areas of tumor necrosis. Gadofluorine M, 0.05 mmol Gd kg(-1), was administered intravenously to 28 anesthetized rats that had developed over 10 months mammary tumors of varying degrees of malignancy as a consequence of intraperitoneal administration of N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU), 45-250 mg kg(-1). These tumors ranged histologically from benign fibroadenomas to highly undifferentiated adenocarcinomas. Dynamic enhancement data were analyzed kinetically using a two-compartment tumor model to generate estimates of fractional plasma volume (fPV), apparent fractional extracellular volume (fEV*) and an endothelial transfer coefficient (K(PS)) for this contrast agent. Tumors were examined microscopically for tumor type, degree of malignancy (Scarff-Bloom-Richardson score) and location of necrosis. Eighteen tumor-bearing rats were successfully imaged. MRI data showed an immediate strong and gradually increasing tumor enhancement. K(PS) and fEV*, but not fPV obtained from tumors correlated significantly (p < 0.05) with the SBR tumor grade, r = 0.65 and 0.56, respectively. Estimates for K(PS) and fEV* but not fPV were significantly lower in a group consisting of benign and low-grade malignant tumors compared with the group of less-differentiated high-grade tumors (1.61 +/- 0.64 vs 3.37 +/- 1.49, p < 0.01; 0.45 +/- 0.17 vs 0.78 +/- 0.24, p < 0.01; and 0.076 +/- 0.048 vs 0.121 +/- 0.088, p = 0.24, respectively). It is concluded that the protein-avid MRI contrast agent Gadofluorine M enhances tumors of varying malignancy depending on the tumor grade, higher contrast agent accumulation for more malignant lesions. The results show potential utility for differentiating benign and low-grade malignant lesions from high-grade cancers.
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- Hans-Jürgen Raatschen
- Center for Pharmaceutical and Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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Vincensini D, Dedieu V, Eliat PA, Vincent C, Bailly C, de Certaines J, Joffre F. Magnetic resonance imaging measurements of vascular permeability and extracellular volume fraction of breast tumors by dynamic Gd-DTPA-enhanced relaxometry. Magn Reson Imaging 2006; 25:293-302. [PMID: 17371717 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2006.10.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2005] [Revised: 09/21/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Vascular permeability (k(ep), min(-1)) and extracellular volume fraction (v(e)) are tissue parameters of great interest to characterize malignant tumor lesions. Indeed, it is well known that tumors with high blood supply better respond to therapy than poorly vascularized tumors, and tumors with large extracellular volume tend to be more malignant than tumors showing lower extracellular volume. Furthermore, the transport of therapeutic agents depends on both extracellular volume fraction and vessel permeability. Thus, before treatment, these tissue parameters may prove useful to evaluate tumor aggressiveness and to predict responsiveness to therapy and variations during cytotoxic therapies could allow to assess treatment efficacy and early modified therapy schedules in case of poor responsiveness. As a consequence, there is a need to develop methods that could be routinely used to determine these tissue parameters. In this work, blood-tissue permeability and extracellular volume fraction information were derived from magnetic resonance imaging dynamic longitudinal relaxation rate (R(1)) mapping obtained after an intravenous bolus injection of Gd-DTPA in a group of 92 female patients with breast lesions, 68 of these being histologically proven to be with carcinoma. For the sake of comparison, 24 benign lesions were studied. The measurement protocol based on two-dimensional gradient echo sequences and a monoexponential plasma kinetic model was that validated in the occasion of previous animal experiments. As a consequence of neoangiogenesis, results showed a higher permeability in malignant than in benign lesions, whereas the extracellular volume fraction value did not allow any discrimination between benign and malignant lesions. The method, which can be easily implemented whatever the imaging system used, could advantageously be used to quantify lesion parameters (k(ep) and v(e)) in routine clinical imaging. Because of its large reproducibility, the method could be useful for intersite comparisons and follow-up studies.
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- Dominique Vincensini
- Laboratoire de Chimie Bioinorganique Médicale, Imagerie Thérapeutique et Diagnostique, CNRS, FR 2059, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 4, France.
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Yankeelov TE, Lepage M, Chakravarthy A, Broome EE, Niermann KJ, Kelley MC, Meszoely I, Mayer IA, Herman CR, McManus K, Price RR, Gore JC. Integration of quantitative DCE-MRI and ADC mapping to monitor treatment response in human breast cancer: initial results. Magn Reson Imaging 2006; 25:1-13. [PMID: 17222711 PMCID: PMC2634832 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2006.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 261] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2006] [Accepted: 09/02/2006] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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PURPOSE The objective of this study was to assess changes in the water apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and in pharmacokinetic parameters obtained from the fast-exchange regime (FXR) modeling of dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) during neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eleven patients with locally advanced breast cancer underwent MRI examination prior to and after chemotherapy but prior to surgery. A 1.5-T scanner was used to obtain T1, ADC and DCE-MRI data. DCE-MRI data were analyzed by the FXR model returning estimates of K(trans) (volume transfer constant), v(e) (extravascular extracellular volume fraction) and tau(i) (average intracellular water lifetime). Histogram and correlation analyses assessed parameter changes post-treatment. RESULTS Significant (P < .05) changes or trends towards significance (P < .10) were seen in all parameters except tau(i), although there was qualitative reduction in tau(i) values post-treatment. In particular, there was reduction (P < .035) in voxels with K(trans) values in the range 0.2-0.5 min(-1) and a decrease (P < .05) in voxels with ADC values in the range 0.99 x 10(-3) to 1.35 x 10(-3) mm2/s. ADC and v(e) were negatively correlated (r = -.60, P < .02). Parameters sensitive to water distribution and geometry (T(1), v(e), tau(i) and ADC) correlated with a multivariable linear regression model. CONCLUSION The analysis presented here is sensitive to longitudinal changes in breast tumor status; K(trans) and ADC are most sensitive to these changes. Relationships between parameters provide information on water distribution and geometry in the tumor environment.
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- Thomas E Yankeelov
- Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-2310, USA.
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Pickles MD, Lowry M, Manton DJ, Gibbs P, Turnbull LW. Role of dynamic contrast enhanced MRI in monitoring early response of locally advanced breast cancer to neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2005; 91:1-10. [PMID: 15868426 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-004-5819-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Neoadjuvant chemotherapy has become the standard treatment for patients with locally advanced breast cancer; however a technique that can accurately differentiate responders from non-responders at an early time point during treatment has still to be identified. The purpose of this work was to evaluate the ability of pharmacokinetically modelled dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI data to predict and monitor response of patients diagnosed with locally advanced breast cancer to neoadjuvant chemotherapy, at an early time point during treatment. Sixty-eight patients with histology proven breast cancer underwent MRI examination prior to treatment, early during treatment and following the final cycle of chemotherapy. A two compartment pharmacokinetic model provided the kinetic parameters transfer constant (Ktrans), rate constant (Kep) and extracellular extravascular space (Ve) for a region of interest encompassing the whole lesion (ROIwhole) and a 3x3 pixel 'hot-spot' showing the greatest mean maximum percentage enhancement from within that region (ROIhs). Following treatment 48 patients were classified as responders and 20 as non-responders based on total tumour volume reduction. Tumour volume changes between the pre-treatment and early treatment time points demonstrated differences between responders and non-responders with percentage change revealing the most significant result (p<0.001). Analysis based on ROIhs provided more statistically significant differences between responders and non-responders then ROIwhole analysis. ROIhs analysis demonstrated differences between responders and non-responders both prior to and early during treatment. A highly significant reduction in both Ktrans and Kep (p<0.001) was noted for responders between the pre-treatment and early treatment time points, while Ve significantly increased during the same time period for non-responders (p<0.001). Quantification of dynamic contrast enhancement parameters provides a potential means for differentiating responders from non-responders early during their treatment, thereby allowing a prompt change in treatment if necessary.
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- Martin D Pickles
- Post-graduate Medical School, Division of Cancer, Centre for Magnetic Resonance Investigations, University of Hull, UK.
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Eliat PA, Dedieu V, Bertino C, Bouté V, Lacroix J, Constans JM, de Korvin B, Vincent C, Bailly C, Joffre F, de Certaines J, Vincensini D. Magnetic resonance imaging contrast-enhanced relaxometry of breast tumors: an MRI multicenter investigation concerning 100 patients. Magn Reson Imaging 2004; 22:475-81. [PMID: 15120166 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2004.01.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2003] [Accepted: 01/27/2004] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) using extracellular contrast agents has proved to be useful for the characterization of breast tumors. DCE-MRI has demonstrated a high sensitivity (around 95%) but a rather poor and controversial specificity, varying, according to the different studies, from 45% to 90%. In order to increase (a) the specificity and (b) the robustness of this quantitative approach in multicenter evaluation (five MRI units), a quantitative approach called dynamic relaxometry has been developed. According to the proposed method, the time-dependent longitudinal relaxation rate measured on region of interest of the lesion was calculated during the contrast uptake, after intravenous bolus injection of contrast agent. A specifically developed method was used for fast R(1) measurements. Relaxometry time curves are fitted to the Tofts model allowing the measurement of the parameters describing the enhancement curve (maximum relation rate enhancement, initial, 30-s and 60-s slopes) and the tissue parameters [transfer constant (K(trans) min(-1)) and extracellular extravascular space fraction (v(e))]. Correspondence factorial analysis followed by hierarchical ascendant classification are then performed on the different parameters. Higher K(trans) values were observed in infiltrative ductal carcinomas than in infiltrative lobular carcinomas, in agreement with data published by other groups. Specificity of DCE-MRI has been increased up to 85%, with a sensitivity of 95% with K(trans)/v(e) and enhancement index I (ratio of initial slope by maximum relaxation rate enhancement). A multiparametric data analysis of the calculated parameters opens the way to include quantitative image-based information in new nosologic approaches to breast tumors.
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- Pierre-Antoine Eliat
- Laboratoire de Résonance Magnétique en Biologie et Médecine, IFR91 Imagerie Métabolique et Modélisation, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Rennes 1 CS 34317-35043 Rennes Cedex, France.
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Shahbazi-Gahrouei D, Williams M, Rizvi S, Allen BJ. In vivo studies of Gd-DTPA-monoclonal antibody and gd-porphyrins: potential magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents for melanoma. J Magn Reson Imaging 2001; 14:169-74. [PMID: 11477676 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.1168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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New tumor-specific contrast agents for clinical imaging and therapy for cancer are required. To this end Gd-H (Gd-hematoporphyrin), Gd-TCP (Gd-tetra-carboranylmethoxyphenyl-porphyrin), Gd-DTPA-WM53, and Gd-DTPA-9.2.27 were synthesized and administered by systemic injection to nude mice with human melanoma (MM-138) xenografts. The biodistribution T1 relaxation times and magnetic resonance (MR) image signal enhancement of the contrast agents are presented for the first time and compared for each group of five mice. A change (20%) in T1 relaxation times of water in human melanoma tumor xenografts was revealed 24 hours after injection of the labeled immunoconjugate Gd-DTPA-9.2.27. The percent of injected antibody or gadolinium that localized to the tumor was measured by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES) to be approximately 35%. A higher concentration of gadolinium was achieved compared with nonspecific compounds, indicating selective delivery of Gd-DTPA-9.2.27 to the melanoma xenografts. Porphyrin-based contrast agents (Gd-H and Gd-TCP) also showed significant uptake in melanomas. The uptake of Gd-TCP by the tumor was sufficient to deliver boron atoms into the tumor, making possible dual use for both MR imaging (MRI) and boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT). The linear relationship found between the paramagnetic contribution to the relaxation rates and contrast agent concentration allows quantitative studies of paramagnetic contrast agent uptake.
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Taylor JS, Reddick WE. Evolution from empirical dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging to pharmacokinetic MRI. Adv Drug Deliv Rev 2000; 41:91-110. [PMID: 10699307 DOI: 10.1016/s0169-409x(99)00058-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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For chemotherapy to be effective against cancers which grow as solid tumors, agents must reach all tumor cells in effective quantities. Although many clinical trials include studies of the pharmacokinetics of the agents in body fluids such as blood or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), there is presently no widely applicable way to determine access of chemotherapeutic agents to all regions of a solid tumor in an individual patient. This review discusses a relatively new methodology in MR imaging - dynamic contrast-enhanced imaging for exploring tumor microcirculation and drug access by imaging the uptake, or leakage, of contrast agent into tumor interstitial (extracellular and extravascular) space. The aims and methods of dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI evaluations to measure contrast uptake are distinguished from dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI to measure blood volume or flow, by MR imaging of the first-pass effects of a contrast bolus. Measures of contrast uptake by dynamic MRI have demonstrated a convincing ability to aid in diagnosing the presence of viable tumor and to measure response for a range of human tumors. This body of clinical results will be summarized. While questions remain to be answered about how to extract non-invasive pharmacokinetic measures of drug access from these novel dynamic imaging methods, we are optimistic that these methods can provide important new clinical measures that reflect the range of biological variation within and between naturally-occurring solid tumors.
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- J S Taylor
- Department of Diagnostic Imaging, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 332 N. Lauderdale St., Memphis, TN 38105-2794, USA.
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