Faris Durmo1, Anna Rydhög2, Frederik Testud3, Jimmy Lätt2, Benjamin Schmitt4, Anna Rydelius5, Elisabet Englund6, Johan Bengzon7, Peter van Zijl8,9, Linda Knutsson8,10, Pia C Sundgren1,2,11. 1. Division of Radiology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. 2. Center for Medical Imaging and Physiology, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden. 3. Siemens Healthcare AB, Malmö, Sweden. 4. Siemens Healthcare Pty Ltd, Bayswater, Australia. 5. Division of Neurology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. 6. Division of Oncology and Pathology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. 7. Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. 8. Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America. 9. F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States of America. 10. Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. 11. LBIC, Lund University Bioimaging Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Radiological assessment of primary brain neoplasms, both high (HGG) and low grade tumors (LGG), based on contrast-enhancement alone can be inaccurate. We evaluated the radiological value of amide proton transfer weighted (APTw) MRI as an imaging complement for pre-surgical radiological diagnosis of brain tumors. METHODS: Twenty-six patients were evaluated prospectively; (22 males, 4 females, mean age 55 years, range 26-76 years) underwent MRI at 3T using T1-MPRAGE pre- and post-contrast administration, conventional T2w, FLAIR, and APTw imaging pre-surgically for suspected primary/secondary brain tumor. Assessment of the additional value of APTw imaging compared to conventional MRI for correct pre-surgical brain tumor diagnosis. The initial radiological pre-operative diagnosis was based on the conventional contrast-enhanced MR images. The range, minimum, maximum, and mean APTw signals were evaluated. Conventional normality testing was performed; with boxplots/outliers/skewness/kurtosis and a Shapiro-Wilk's test. Mann-Whitney U for analysis of significance for mean/max/min and range APTw signal. A logistic regression model was constructed for mean, max, range and Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves calculated for individual and combined APTw signals. RESULTS: Conventional radiological diagnosis prior to surgery/biopsy was HGG (8 patients), LGG (12 patients), and metastasis (6 patients). Using the mean and maximum: APTw signal would have changed the pre-operative evaluation the diagnosis in 8 of 22 patients (two LGGs excluded, two METs excluded). Using a cut off value of >2.0% for mean APTw signal integral, 4 of the 12 radiologically suspected LGG would have been diagnosed as high grade glioma, which was confirmed by histopathological diagnosis. APTw mean of >2.0% and max >2.48% outperformed four separate clinical radiological assessments of tumor type, P-values = .004 and = .002, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Using APTw-images as part of the daily clinical pre-operative radiological evaluation may improve diagnostic precision in differentiating LGGs from HGGs, with potential improvement of patient management and treatment.
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