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Abstract #3279

Role of R2* with BOLD MRI in the Staging of Prostate Cancer

Wenchao Cai 1 , Feiyu Li 1 , Jing Wang 2 , Jue Zhang 3,4 , Xiaoying Wang 1,3 , and Xuexiang Jiang 1

1 Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, Beijing, China, 2 MRI Research Center, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China, 3 Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China, 4 College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China

Static blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) MRI is a non-invasive method quantitatively measuring R2* which is sensitive to oxygenation status and accordance to hypoxia measured by immunohistochemical staining and pO2 microelectrode in prostate cancer. Tumor hypoxia have negative impact on response to various cancer therapies and promotion of metastasis. Therefore the purpose of the study was to investigate the ability of R2* by static BOLD MRI in staging of prostate tumor, and compared R2* with blood flow (BF) from ASL. Our results show a significant drop of R2* along with the prostate cancer upstaged detected via BOLD MRI, and inverse correlation between R2* and BF, which indicates that R2* values in patients with prostate cancer may be highly dependent on blood oxygenation.

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