Chapter title |
Quantitation of Peritumoural Oedema and the Effect of Steroids Using NMR-Relaxation Time Imaging and Blood-Brain Barrier Analysis
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Chapter number | 112 |
Book title |
Brain Edema IX
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Published in |
Acta neurochirurgica. Supplementum, January 1994
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DOI | 10.1007/978-3-7091-9334-1_112 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-3-70-919336-5, 978-3-70-919334-1
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Authors |
Andersen, C, Astrup, J, Gyldensted, C, Andersen, C., Astrup, J., Gyldensted, C. |
Abstract |
A new method of in vivo quantitation of peritumoural brain oedema using NMR relaxation time imaging (T1-maps) and Gd-DTPA-enhanced Blood-Tumour-Barrier (BTB) analysis is presented. The method is based on image pixel histogram analysis and a fast imaging method combined with arterial [Gd-DTPA]-measurement. The method was applied in 26 brain tumour patients, studied prior to--and 1, 3 and 7 days after initiation of dexamethasone. Oedema resorption rate following dexamethasone treatment was almost equal in glioblastomas and metastases, mean T1 being reduced by ca. 12% in 7 days. In meningiomas no significant changes in peritumoural oedema could be detected. Simultaneous BTB-analysis was obtained in 4 patients showing correlation between oedema resorption in vivo and reduction of BTB transport rate constant Ki after 7 days of steroid treatment. This method is a powerful tool in quantitation and monitoring of brain oedema in vivo, as both steroid influence on oedema resorption and on BTB-defect can be monitored simultaneously. |
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