Abstract
Introduction: Pseudoprogression (psPD) is a transient post-treatment imaging change that is commonly seen when treating glioma with chemotherapy and radiation. The use of apparent transverse relaxation rate (R2*), which is calculated from a contrast-free multi-echo gradient echo Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) sequence, may allow for quantitative identification of patients with suspected psPD. Methods: We acquired a multi-echo gradient echo sequence using a 3T-Siemens Prisma MRI. The signal decay through the echoes was fitted to provide the (R2*) coefficient. We segmented the T1-gadolinium enhancing the image to provide a contrast enhancing lesion (CEL) and the FLAIR hyperintensity to provide a non-enhancing lesion (NEL). These regions of interest were applied to the multi-echo gradient echo to acquire a mean (R2*) within the CEL and NEL. We additionally acquired ADC data to attempt to corroborate our findings. Results: We found that patients who later exhibited PD exhibited a higher (R2*) within the CEL as well as a higher ratio of CEL to NEL. Our data correctly distinguished pseudoprogression from treatment effect in 9/9 patients, while ADC corrected identified 7/9 patients using an absolute ADC of 1200 × 10−6mm2/s. Conclusions: Our method seems promising for the accurate identification of psPD, and the technique is amenable to evaluation in larger, multi-centre patient cohorts.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 224-231 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology |
Volume | 62 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 2018 |
Keywords
- R 2 ∗
- concurrent chemoradiotherapy
- glioma
- progression
- pseudoprogression
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Oncology
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging