Comparison of relative cerebral blood volume and proton spectroscopy in patients with treated gliomas

RG Henry, DB Vigneron, NJ Fischbein… - American journal …, 2000 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Elevated relative regional cerebral blood volume (rCBV)
reflects the increased microvascularity that is associated with brain tumors. The purpose of …

Cerebral blood volume measurements by perfusion-weighted MR imaging in gliomas: ready for prime time in predicting short-term outcome and recurrent disease?

S Bisdas, M Kirkpatrick, P Giglio… - American Journal …, 2009 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Current classification and grading of primary brain tumors
has significant limitations. Our aim was to determine whether the relative cerebral volume …

High-grade gliomas and solitary metastases: differentiation by using perfusion and proton spectroscopic MR imaging

M Law, S Cha, EA Knopp, G Johnson, J Arnett, AW Litt - Radiology, 2002 - pubs.rsna.org
PURPOSE: To determine whether perfusion-weighted and proton spectroscopic MR
imaging can be used to differentiate high-grade primary gliomas and solitary metastases on …

Echo-planar MR determination of relative cerebral blood volume in human brain tumors: T1 versus T2 weighting.

R Bruening, KK Kwong, MJ Vevea… - American journal …, 1996 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
PURPOSE Maps related to relative cerebral blood volume (rCBV) were generated with the
use of the T1 effects produced by a low-dose bolus passage of gadopentetate dimeglumine …

Glioma grading: sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values of perfusion MR imaging and proton MR spectroscopic imaging compared with conventional MR imaging

M Law, S Yang, H Wang, JS Babb… - American journal …, 2003 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Sensitivity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative
predictive value (NPV) of conventional MR imaging in predicting glioma grade are not high …

Correlation of MR relative cerebral blood volume measurements with cellular density and proliferation in high-grade gliomas: an image-guided biopsy study

SJ Price, HAL Green, AF Dean… - American journal …, 2011 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: As newer MR imaging techniques are used to assist with
tumor grading, biopsy planning, and therapeutic response assessment, there is a need to …

Contrast/Noise ratio on conventional MRI and choline/creatine ratio on proton MRI spectroscopy accurately discriminate low-grade from high-grade cerebral gliomas

N Fayed, H Morales, PJ Modrego, MA Pina - Academic radiology, 2006 - Elsevier
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Histopathology is the gold standard to establish the grade
of brain tumors but biopsy and/or surgery are not always possible. The aim of this study is to …

Correlations between perfusion MR imaging cerebral blood volume, microvessel quantification, and clinical outcome using stereotactic analysis in recurrent high …

LS Hu, JM Eschbacher, AC Dueck… - American Journal …, 2012 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Quantifying MVA rather than MVD provides better
correlation with survival in HGG. This is attributed to a specific “glomeruloid” vascular …

Advanced MR imaging techniques in the evaluation of nonenhancing gliomas: perfusion-weighted imaging compared with proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy …

N Sahin, ER Melhem, S Wang… - The Neuroradiology …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
A significant number of nonenhancing (NE) gliomas are reported to be malignant. The
purpose of this study was to compare the value of advanced MR imaging techniques …

High-grade and low-grade gliomas: differentiation by using perfusion MR imaging

B Hakyemez, C Erdogan, I Ercan, N Ergin, S Uysal… - Clinical radiology, 2005 - Elsevier
AIM: Relative cerebral blood volume (rCBV) is a commonly used perfusion magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) technique for the evaluation of tumour grade. Relative cerebral …