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ArticleNeuro-oncology2014

Integrating diffusion kurtosis imaging, dynamic susceptibility-weighted contrast-enhanced MRI, and short echo time chemical shift imaging for grading gliomas.

Sofie Van Cauter, Frederik De Keyzer, Diana M Sima, Anca Croitor Sava, Felice D'Arco, Jelle Veraart, Ronald R Peeters, Alexander Leemans, Stefaan Van Gool, Guido Wilms and 4 more

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Article in Neuro-oncology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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37citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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37 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 84 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Sofie Van Cauter
Frederik De Keyzer
Diana M Sima
Anca Croitor Sava
Felice D'Arco
Jelle Veraart
Ronald R Peeters
Alexander Leemans
Stefaan Van Gool
Guido Wilms
Philippe Demaerel
Sabine Van Huffel
Stefan Sunaert
Uwe Himmelreich
iMinds · BEKU Leuven · BEUniversity of Antwerp · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundWe assessed the diagnostic accuracy of diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI), dynamic susceptibility-weighted contrast-enhanced (DSC) MRI, and short echo time chemical shift imaging (CSI) for grading gliomas.

methodsIn this prospective study, 35 patients with cerebral gliomas underwent DKI, DSC, and CSI on a 3 T MR scanner. Diffusion parameters were mean diffusivity (MD), fractional anisotropy, and mean kurtosis (MK). Perfusion parameters were mean relative regional cerebral blood volume (rrCBV), mean relative regional cerebral blood flow (rrCBF), mean transit time, and relative decrease ratio (rDR). The diffusion and perfusion parameters along with 12 CSI metabolite ratios were compared among 22 high-grade gliomas and 14 low-grade gliomas (Mann-Whitney U-test, P < .05). Classification accuracy was determined with a linear discriminant analysis for each MR modality independently. Furthermore, the performance of a multimodal analysis is reported, using a decision-tree rule combining the statistically significant DKI, DSC-MRI, and CSI parameters with the lowest P-value. The proposed classifiers were validated on a set of subsequently acquired data from 19 clinical patients.

resultsStatistically significant differences among tumor grades were shown for MK, MD, mean rrCBV, mean rrCBF, rDR, lipids over total choline, lipids over creatine, sum of myo-inositol, and sum of creatine. DSC-MRI proved to be the modality with the best performance when comparing modalities individually, while the multimodal decision tree proved to be most accurate in predicting tumor grade, with a performance of 86%.

conclusionsCombining information from DKI, DSC-MRI, and CSI increases diagnostic accuracy to differentiate low- from high-grade gliomas, possibly providing diagnosis for the individual patient.

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AdultAgedBrain NeoplasmsDiffusion Magnetic Resonance ImagingFemaleGliomaHumansImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedMagnetic Resonance ImagingMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyMaleMiddle AgedMultimodal ImagingNeoplasm GradingYoung Adult

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PMID24470551
PMCPMC4057134
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