Andreas Fehlner1, Janina Ruth Behrens2,3, Kaspar-Josche Streitberger1,2, Sebastian Papazoglou3, Jürgen Braun4, Judith Bellmann-Strobl3,5,6, Klemens Ruprecht2,5, Friedemann Paul3,5,6, Jens Würfel3,7, Ingolf Sack1. 1. Department of Radiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany. 2. Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany. 3. NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany. 4. Institute of Medical Informatics, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany. 5. Clinical and Experimental Multiple Sclerosis Research Center, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany. 6. Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany. 7. Medical Image Analysis Center Basel, Switzerland.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To assess if higher-resolution magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a technique that can measure the in vivo mechanical properties of brain tissue and is sensitive to early signatures of brain tissue degradation in patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Seventeen patients with CIS and 33 controls were investigated by MRE with a 3T MRI scanner. Full-wave field data were acquired at seven drive frequencies from 30 to 60 Hz. The spatially resolved higher-resolution maps of magnitude |G*| and phase angle φ of the complex-valued shear modulus were obtained in addition to springpot model parameters. These parameters were spatially averaged in white matter (WM) and whole-brain regions and correlated with clinical and radiological parameters. RESULTS: Spatially resolved MRE revealed that CIS reduced WM viscoelasticity, independent of imaging markers of multiple sclerosis and clinical scores. |G*| was reduced by 14% in CIS (1.4 ± 0.2 kPa vs. 1.7 ± 0.2 kPa, P < 0.001, 95% confidence interval [CI] [-0.4, -0.1] kPa), while φ (0.66 ± 0.04 vs. 0.67 ± 0.04, P = 0.65, 95% CI [-0.04, 0.02]) remained unaltered. Springpot-based shear elasticity showed only a trend of CIS-related reduction (3.4 ± 0.5 kPa vs. 3.7 ± 0.5 kPa, P = 0.06, 95% CI [-0.6, 0.02] kPa) in the whole brain. CONCLUSION: We demonstrate that CIS leads to significantly reduced elasticity of brain parenchyma, raising the prospect of using MRE as an imaging marker for subtle and diffuse tissue damage in neuroinflammatory diseases. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2016;44:51-58.
PURPOSE: To assess if higher-resolution magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a technique that can measure the in vivo mechanical properties of brain tissue and is sensitive to early signatures of brain tissue degradation in patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Seventeen patients with CIS and 33 controls were investigated by MRE with a 3T MRI scanner. Full-wave field data were acquired at seven drive frequencies from 30 to 60 Hz. The spatially resolved higher-resolution maps of magnitude |G*| and phase angle φ of the complex-valued shear modulus were obtained in addition to springpot model parameters. These parameters were spatially averaged in white matter (WM) and whole-brain regions and correlated with clinical and radiological parameters. RESULTS: Spatially resolved MRE revealed that CIS reduced WM viscoelasticity, independent of imaging markers of multiple sclerosis and clinical scores. |G*| was reduced by 14% in CIS (1.4 ± 0.2 kPa vs. 1.7 ± 0.2 kPa, P < 0.001, 95% confidence interval [CI] [-0.4, -0.1] kPa), while φ (0.66 ± 0.04 vs. 0.67 ± 0.04, P = 0.65, 95% CI [-0.04, 0.02]) remained unaltered. Springpot-based shear elasticity showed only a trend of CIS-related reduction (3.4 ± 0.5 kPa vs. 3.7 ± 0.5 kPa, P = 0.06, 95% CI [-0.6, 0.02] kPa) in the whole brain. CONCLUSION: We demonstrate that CIS leads to significantly reduced elasticity of brain parenchyma, raising the prospect of using MRE as an imaging marker for subtle and diffuse tissue damage in neuroinflammatory diseases. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2016;44:51-58.
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