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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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