Manning, C;
Stringer, M;
Dickie, B;
Clancy, U;
Valdés Hernandez, MC;
Wiseman, SJ;
Garcia, DJ;
... Thrippleton, MJ; + view all
(2021)
Sources of systematic error in DCE-MRI estimation of low-level blood-brain barrier leakage.
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
, 86
(4)
pp. 1888-1903.
10.1002/mrm.28833.
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Abstract
PURPOSE: Dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) -MRI with Patlak model analysis is increasingly used to quantify low-level blood-brain barrier (BBB) leakage in studies of pathophysiology. We aimed to investigate systematic errors due to physiological, experimental, and modeling factors influencing quantification of the permeability-surface area product PS and blood plasma volume vp , and to propose modifications to reduce the errors so that subtle differences in BBB permeability can be accurately measured. METHODS: Simulations were performed to predict the effects of potential sources of systematic error on conventional PS and vp quantification: restricted BBB water exchange, reduced cerebral blood flow, arterial input function (AIF) delay and B 1 + error. The impact of targeted modifications to the acquisition and processing were evaluated, including: assumption of fast versus no BBB water exchange, bolus versus slow injection of contrast agent, exclusion of early data from model fitting and B 1 + correction. The optimal protocol was applied in a cohort of recent mild ischaemic stroke patients. RESULTS: Simulation results demonstrated substantial systematic errors due to the factors investigated (absolute PS error ≤ 4.48 × 10-4 min-1 ). However, these were reduced (≤0.56 × 10-4 min-1 ) by applying modifications to the acquisition and processing pipeline. Processing modifications also had substantial effects on in-vivo normal-appearing white matter PS estimation (absolute change ≤ 0.45 × 10-4 min-1 ). CONCLUSION: Measuring subtle BBB leakage with DCE-MRI presents unique challenges and is affected by several confounds that should be considered when acquiring or interpreting such data. The evaluated modifications should improve accuracy in studies of neurodegenerative diseases involving subtle BBB breakdown.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Sources of systematic error in DCE-MRI estimation of low-level blood-brain barrier leakage |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/mrm.28833 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28833 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | DCE-MRI, blood-brain barrier, dementia, gadolinium, small vessel disease |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10132448 |
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