Novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrasts for Monitoring Response to Gene Therapy in Rat Glioma

Olli H.J. Gröhn, Piia K. Valonen, Kimmo K. Lehtimäki, Tuula H. Väisänen, Mikko I. Kettunen, Seppo Ylä-Herttuala, Risto A. Kauppinen, Michael Garwood

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Abstract

Magnetic resonance imaging relaxation times, T and Carr-Purcell T2 (CP-T2), were measured in a glioma herpes simplex virus-thymidine kinase gene therapy model. In treated tumors with >50% cell death by histology, T and CP-T2 measured with short spacing (τCP) between centers of adiabatic refocusing pulses showed similar enhanced sensitivity to cytotoxic cell damage over CP-T2 measured with long τCP (long-τ CP T2: 54.3 ± 0.7 and 55.4 ± 1.2 ms, P = 0.30; short-τCP T2: 61.3 ± 1.0 and 64.2 ± 1.1 ms, P < 0.05 before and day 2 of treatment, respectively). Without treatment, long-τCP T2 provided the most pronounced contrast between tumor and normal cerebral tissue. These data demonstrate that endogenous T2 contrast can be modulated and extended in a manner likely to be clinically important.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)7571-7574
Number of pages4
JournalCancer Research
Volume63
Issue number22
StatePublished - Nov 15 2003

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