1. THE CORRELATIONS OF 3D PSEUDO-CONTINUOUS ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING AND DYNAMIC SUSCEPTIBILITY CONTRAST PERFUSION MRI IN BRAIN TUMORS
Delgerdalai Khashbat, Takashi Abe, Ganbold Mungunbagana,
Saho Irahara, Seiji Iwamoto, Naoto Uyama, Youichi Otomi, Masafumi Harada
Department of Radiology, Institute of Health Biosciences,
Tokushima University Graduate School

2. ☑ The author has no conflict of interest to disclose with respect to this presentation.

3. Background
Arterial sipin labeling (ASL) is non contrast perfusion MR method for quantitativily measuring cerebral blood flow (CBF) and its an alternative method to Dynamic susceptibility contrast enhanced perfusion (DSC) MRI to estimate brain tumor perfusion (1).
DSC MRI is frequently used perfusion method to evaluate various neurological diseases that technique relies on the first passage of contrast agent through to the brain tissue (2).
Recently DSC Time to maximum (Tmax) is introduced as a reliable parameter for evaluation of cerebral hemodynamics (3). However, the findings of Tmax in brain tumors and correlation between ASL and Tmax in brain tumors are not studied yet.
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4. Purpose
The purpose of the study was to compare 3D ASL with DSC MRI parameters including Tmax in patients with brain tumors

5. Materials and methods:
Patients
A total of 31 patients with brain tumor underwent MRI examination at the Tokushima University Hospital in 2010.
HGG-19, LGG-4, PCNSL-4, Mets-3, Hemangioblastoma-1
male 14, female 17, mean age 58.4 (19-77)
MRI imaging (3T MRI, Discovery 750, GE Healthcare, WI)
ASL performed with pseudocontinuous labeling, background suppression and a stack of spirals 3D fast spin echo imaging sequence;
ASL were following paremeter: 512 sampling points on eight spirals, field of view (FOV): 24 cm, reconstructed matrix: 64×64, TR: 4632 ms, TE: 10.5 ms, number of excitation (NEX): 2, post labeling delay: 1525ms, slice thickness: 4 mm, number of slices: 36 and acquisition time: 3:15 min.

6. Materials and methods:
rCBV, rCBF, Tmax and MTT are obtained by DSC MRI.
DSC–MRI was performed using a GE-EPI (gradient-echo, echo-planar imaging); FOV = 240 mm, TR/TE = 1990/50 msec, Matrix size = 128 x 128, FA = 90 degrees, ASSET factor = 2,Number of Averages = 1, slice thickness = 3/1 mm, number of slices = 20, acquisition time = 100 sec ( 50 phases )
In addition, T1WI, T2WI, FLAIR, DWI and post contrast T1WI
Data Analysis
Data analysis was performed on AW workstation 4.6 (GE Healthcare, WI)
ROI’s were placed within maximal signal enhancement of tumor lesion on CE T1WI and were coregistered to all perfusion maps. Tumor perfusion values were calculated by mean value of tumor ROI in ASL, DSC rCBV, rCBF, Tmax.
Absolute mean ASL-CBF value was aslo estimated from the tumor ROI.
Statistical Analysis
SPSS 20.0; Pearson’s correlation, Independent T-test;
A Value of P<0.05 was considered significant.

7. Result (1). The correlations between ASL and DSC perfusion MRI parameters in brain tumors
Ratio of ASL-CBF
Ratio of rCBF
Ratio of rCBV
Ratio of Tmax
Ratio of MTT 1
0.738**
0.652**
-0.417*
-.216
0.888**
-0.340
0.230
-0.129
-0.064
0.623**
Spearman’s rank correlations (No.of cases=31) **.P<0.01, *.P<0.05

8. The correlations of ASL and DSC perfusion MRI parameters in brain tumors
r=0.738, p<
r=0.652, p<
r=-0.417, p= 0.019
Spearman’s correlation (2-tailed). No of cases 31

9. Glioblastoma multiforme in a 52 year old man
CE-T1WI ASL CBF DSC rCBV
DSC rCBF DSC Tmax
The images of a GBM.
Glioblastoma multiforme in a 52 year old man

10. Result (2). The differences of the perfusion parameters between grade III glioma, GBM and malignant lymphoma
p=0.015
p=0.016
p=0.019
p=0.020
p=0.017
p=0.036
p=0.247
p=0.356
Independent T test
(two-tailed)

11. Result (3)
Absolute CBF was also significant to differentiate GBM from grade III glioma (p=0.003) and malignant lymphoma (p=0.016) .
p=0.003
p=0.016
There were not any signifcant differences between HGG vs LGG, GBM vs metastasis in thus of perfusion parameters.

12. Discussion
ASL is strongly correlated with rCBF and rCBV in this study. In addition, ASL is correlated with Tmax in brain tumors, but not correlated with MTT.
ASL and Tmax parameter may reflects by transit delay, dispersion that is contrary to rCBF and rCBV. The calculated Tmax value is found to reflect a combination of delay, dispersion and a lesser degree mean transit time (MTT) (3).
Absolute ASL-CBF and ratio of ASL-CBF both can differentiate GBM from grade III glioma and malignant lymphoma as well as rCBV, rCBF.
Absolute ASL-CBF is may conveniece perfusion method in clinical practice by spending less time compared with normalized relative perfusion values which derrived from DSC perfusion MRI.
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13. Conclusion
3D ASL could be used an alternative perfusion method to the DSC MRI for evaluation of brain tumors. But ASL may be influenced by vascular delay and dispersion which are not contained in rCBV and rCBF derived DSC MRI.

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