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Abstract #0364

High Cellularity Subvolume in Glioblastoma identified by High b-value Diffusion Weighted Images

Priyanka P Pramanik 1 , Hemant A Parmar 2 , Aaron G Mammoser 3 , Larry R Junck 3 , Theodore S Lawrence 1 , Christina I Tsien 1 , and Yue Cao 1

1 Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, 2 Department of Radiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, 3 Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

The blood-brain(tumor)-barrier could impact therapeutic efficacy of glioblastoma, particularly in the non-enhanced component, which is difficult to differentiate from edema using conventional MRI. This study explores high b-value Diffusion Weighted Imaging (DWI) as a means to identifying the non-enhanced solid tumor. Our study shows that a large non-enhanced high cellular tumor volume extracted from b=3000 s/mm^2 DWI is associated with a higher likelihood of non-central recurrence. High b-value DWI shows promise for aiding in radiation therapy target volume definition.

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