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Supplementary Figure from Selective Cell Size MRI Differentiates Brain Tumors from Radiation Necrosis

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posted on 2023-03-31, 05:22 authored by Sean P. Devan, Xiaoyu Jiang, Guozhen Luo, Jingping Xie, James D. Quirk, John A. Engelbach, Hannah Harmsen, Eliot T. McKinley, Jing Cui, Zhongliang Zu, Albert Attia, Joel R. Garbow, John C. Gore, Colin D. McKnight, Austin N. Kirschner, Junzhong Xu
Supplementary Figure from Selective Cell Size MRI Differentiates Brain Tumors from Radiation Necrosis

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United States Department of Health and Human Services

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Brain metastasis is a common characteristic of late-stage lung cancers. High doses of targeted radiotherapy can control tumor growth in the brain but can also result in radiotherapy-induced necrosis. Current methods are limited for distinguishing whether new parenchymal lesions following radiotherapy are recurrent tumors or radiotherapy-induced necrosis, but the clinical management of these two classes of lesions differs significantly. Here, we developed, validated, and evaluated a new MRI technique termed selective size imaging using filters via diffusion times (SSIFT) to differentiate brain tumors from radiotherapy necrosis in the brain. This approach generates a signal filter that leverages diffusion time dependence to establish a cell size–weighted map. Computer simulations in silico, cultured cancer cells in vitro, and animals with brain tumors in vivo were used to comprehensively validate the specificity of SSIFT for detecting typical large cancer cells and the ability to differentiate brain tumors from radiotherapy necrosis. SSIFT was also implemented in patients with metastatic brain cancer and radiotherapy necrosis. SSIFT showed high correlation with mean cell sizes in the relevant range of less than 20 μm. The specificity of SSIFT for brain tumors and reduced contrast in other brain etiologies allowed SSIFT to differentiate brain tumors from peritumoral edema and radiotherapy necrosis. In conclusion, this new, cell size–based MRI method provides a unique contrast to differentiate brain tumors from other pathologies in the brain. This work introduces and provides preclinical validation of a new diffusion MRI method that exploits intrinsic differences in cell sizes to distinguish brain tumors and radiotherapy necrosis.

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