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ReviewCancers2026

Clinical Applications of Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Brain Tumors: Current Evidence and Future Opportunities.

Riccardo Serra, Siddharth R Shah, Adarsha P Malla, Tina Wang, Alexander Ksendzovsky, Dirk Mayer, Eli E Bar, Graeme F Woodworth

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Review in Cancers, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Riccardo SerraDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
Siddharth R ShahDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6674-1501
Adarsha P MallaDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0287-2617
Tina WangDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
Alexander KsendzovskyDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
Dirk MayerBrain Tumor Program, Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7557-9019
Eli E BarDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4561-4631
Graeme F WoodworthDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9663-0768

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brain tumors exhibit extensive metabolic reprogramming that supports proliferation, invasion, therapeutic resistance, and adaptation to dynamic microenvironmental conditions. These alterations provide opportunities for metabolic imaging approaches that extend beyond conventional anatomical neuroimaging. Hyperpolarized magnetic resonance imaging (hpMRI) has emerged as a novel metabolic imaging platform capable of non-invasively visualizing real-time cellular metabolism through dynamic nuclear polarization of carbon-13-labeled substrates. By dramatically enhancing magnetic resonance signal intensity, hpMRI enables interrogation of enzyme-specific metabolic pathways and provides unique insight into tumor energetics, metabolic heterogeneity, and treatment response. The distinct contribution of this review is an updated, brain tumor-specific, clinically oriented framework that integrates recent human evidence with longitudinal metabolic phenotyping, emerging pathway-specific probes, acquisition standardization, multimodal validation, and the remaining barriers to clinical implementation. Particular emphasis is placed on hyperpolarized [1-

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brain tumorscarbon-13 MRIglioblastomagliomahyperpolarized MRImetabolic imagingprecision neuro-oncologytumor metabolism

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PMID42588679
PMCPMC13463868

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