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ArticleQuantitative imaging in medicine and surgery2021

Predicting cancer malignancy and proliferation in glioma patients: intra-subject inter-metabolite correlation analyses using MRI and MRSI contrast scans.

Changliang Su, Shihui Li, Xiaowei Chen, Chengxia Liu, Mehran Shaghaghi, Jingjing Jiang, Shun Zhang, Yuanyuan Qin, Kejia Cai

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Article in Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Changliang SuDepartment of Medical Imaging, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
Shihui LiDepartment of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Xiaowei ChenDepartment of Radiology, The Central Hospital of Wuhan, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Chengxia LiuDepartment of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Mehran ShaghaghiDepartment of Radiology, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Jingjing JiangDepartment of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Shun ZhangDepartment of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Yuanyuan QinDepartment of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Kejia CaiDepartment of Radiology, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Tongji Hospital · CNHuazhong University of Science and Technology · CNUniversity of Illinois Chicago · USSun Yat-sen University Cancer Center · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe non-invasive characterization of glioma metabolites would greatly assist the management of glioma patients in the clinical setting. This study investigated the applicability of intra-subject inter-metabolite correlation analyses for differentiating glioma malignancy and proliferation.

methodsA total of 17 negative controls (NCs), 39 low-grade gliomas (LGGs) patients, and 25 high-grade gliomas (HGGs) subjects were included in this retrospective study. Amide proton transfer (APT) and magnetization transfer contrast (MTC) imaging contrasts, as well as total choline/total creatine (tCho/tCr) and total N-acetylaspartate/total creatine (tNAA/tCr) ratios quantified from magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) were co-registered voxel-wise and used to produce three intra-subject inter-metabolite correlation coefficients (IMCCs), namely, R

resultsCompared with the NCs, gliomas showed stronger inter-metabolic correlations. R

conclusionsThis study demonstrated that glioma patients showed stronger inter-metabolite correlations than control subjects, and the IMCCs were significantly correlated with glioma grade and proliferation. The multi-IMCCs combined model further improved the performance of clinical diagnosis.

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brain tumorcell proliferationMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI)magnetization transfer contrast imaging (MTC imaging)tumor grading

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