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Abstract #0767

Nuclear Overhauser Enhancement (NOE) Mediated Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) Imaging At 7 Tesla In Glioblastoma Patients

Daniel Paech 1,2 , Jan Eric Meissner 3 , Johannes Windschuh 3 , Benedikt Wiestler 4 , Jan Oliver Neumann 5 , Heinz Peter Schlemmer 6 , Wolfgang Wick 4 , Armin Nagel 3 , Marc Ladd 3 , Martin Bendszus 1 , Peter Bachert 3 , Moritz Zaiss 3 , and Alexander Radbruch 1,2

1 Department of Neuroradiology, University of Heidelberg Medical Center, Heidelberg, BW, Germany, 2 Neurooncologic Imaging, Department of Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ), Heidelberg, BW, Germany, 3 Department of Medical Physics in Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ), Heidelberg, BW, Germany, 4 Department of Neurooncology, University of Heidelberg Medical Center, Heidelberg, BW, Germany, 5 Department of Neurosurgery, University of Heidelberg Medical Center, Heidelberg, BW, Germany, 6 Department of Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ), Heidelberg, BW, Germany

Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) offers a contrast sensitive to endogenous mobile proteins and changes in pH. In our clinical prospective study we investigated Nuclear Overhauser Enhancement (NOE) mediated CEST on a 7T whole body MRI scanner in 11 newly diagnosed and histologically proven glioblastoma patients. Three-dimensional CEST data was co-registrated and compared with contrast enhanced T1-weighted (ce-T1) and T2-weighted sequences. CEST enabled imaging of hot spots within the tumor that were not visible on ce-T1 or T2-weighted images and displayed a surrounding tumor edema significantly smaller than on T2-weighted images.

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