Characterizing Restricted Diffusion in Pre-/Post- treatment Gliomas Using Time-dependent Diffusion MRI at Ultra-high-gradient Human 3.0T

Ante Zhu, Robert Shih, James DeMarco, Herman Morris, Radhika Madhavan, Gail Kohls, Tim Sprenger, Maureen Hood, Luca Marinelli, Jason Gregory, Brett Theeler, Vincent Ho, Thomas Foo

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Abstract

Time-dependent diffusion MRI has shown high specificity to non-Gaussian restricted diffusion, which improves assessing cytoarchitectural alternations in pre-/post- treatment glioma. However, the characterization of time-dependent diffusivity ADC( f ) and kurtosis MK( f ) at short diffusion time using oscillating gradient spin echo (OGSE) diffusion encoding is limited. In our preliminary studies at ultra-high-gradient 3.0T, larger changes of ADC( f ) and MK( f ) were shown in glioblastoma compared to a low-grade astrocytoma, indicating highly restricted microenvironment as confirmed on histopathology. OGSE-based time-dependent diffusion showed promise for evaluating cytoarchitectural alternations in gliomas. ADC( f ) and MK( f ) of contrast-enhancing lesions in three post-glioblastoma-treatment patients showed strong time-dependence.
Original languageAmerican English
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StatePublished - 2022

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