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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2026

A biopsy-validated study of combined DL-upscaled MRSI and (18F)-FACBC PET for presurgical glioma diagnosis.

Erin Beate Bjørkeli, Anna Maria Karlberg, Benedikte Emilie Vindstad, Lars Kjelsberg Pedersen, Ole Skeidsvoll Solheim, Jonn Terje Geitung, Morteza Esmaeili, Live Eikenes

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Erin Beate BjørkeliDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway.
Anna Maria KarlbergDepartment of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
Benedikte Emilie VindstadDepartment of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
Lars Kjelsberg PedersenDepartment of Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology and Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
Ole Skeidsvoll SolheimDepartment of Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Jonn Terje GeitungDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway.
Morteza Esmaeili *Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway.
Live Eikenes *Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

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Medical imaging is crucial for glioma management. Combined with MRI, amino acid PET may improve glioma diagnosis, biopsy targeting, and tumor delineation compared to structural MRI alone. Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) complements both structural MRI and PET by detecting metabolites such as N-acetylaspartate (NAA), creatine (Cr), and choline (Cho), which are markers for brain health and tumor malignancy, but is challenged by low spatial resolution. This study evaluates whether upscaled MRSI enhanced by deep learning can improve diagnostic accuracy and serve as a complement or alternative to PET for glioma classification. Ten glioma patients (ages 24-80) were included. Presurgical [18F]-FACBC PET/MRI, including proton 2D MRSI, was acquired for all patients. Thirty-two image-guided biopsies were sampled during surgery from the patients and classified as glioma tissue or non-tumor tissue, and according to

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deep learningfluciclovine PET molecular imagingglioblastomametabolite MRImultimodal imaging

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