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Volumetric analysis of functional diffusion maps is a predictive imaging biomarker for cytotoxic and anti-angiogenic treatments in malignant gliomas. J Neurooncol 2011 Mar;102(1):95-103

Date

08/28/2010

Pubmed ID

20798977

Pubmed Central ID

PMC3033973

DOI

10.1007/s11060-010-0293-7

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-79952194217 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   56 Citations

Abstract

Anti-angiogenic agents targeting brain tumor neovasculature may increase progression-free survival in patients with recurrent malignant gliomas. However, when these patients do recur it is not always apparent as an increase in enhancing tumor volume on MRI, which has been the standard of practice for following patients with brain tumors. Therefore alternative methods are needed to evaluate patients treated with these novel therapies. Furthermore, a method that can also provide useful information for the evaluation of conventional therapies would provide an important advantage for general applicability. Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) has the potential to serve as a valuable biomarker for these purposes. In the current study, we explore the prognostic ability of functional diffusion maps (fDMs), which examine voxel-wise changes in the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) over time, applied to regions of fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) abnormalities in patients with malignant glioma, treated with either anti-angiogenic or cytotoxic therapies. Results indicate that the rate of change in fDMs is an early predictor of tumor progression, time to progression and overall survival for both treatments, suggesting the application of fDMs in FLAIR abnormal regions may be a significant advance in brain tumor biomarker technology.

Author List

Ellingson BM, Malkin MG, Rand SD, LaViolette PS, Connelly JM, Mueller WM, Schmainda KM

Authors

Jennifer M. Connelly MD Professor in the Neurology department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Peter LaViolette PhD Professor in the Radiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Wade M. Mueller MD Professor in the Neurosurgery department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Kathleen M. Schmainda PhD Professor in the Biophysics department at Medical College of Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Brain Neoplasms
Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Disease Progression
Glioma
Humans
Neoplasm Staging
Neovascularization, Pathologic
Prognosis
Survival Rate
Tumor Burden