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Abstract #4591

Comparison of Manually Selected Arterial Input Function and Standard Radiological Arterial Input Function in MR Estimation of Permeability Parameters Using Model Selection Approach

Siamak P. Nejad-Davarani 1,2 , Hassan Bagher-Ebadian 3,4 , Wilson B. Chwang 3 , James R. Ewing 1,4 , Ashley VanSlooten 5 , Lonni Schultz 5 , Ali S. Arbab 3 , and Rajan Jain 6

1 Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, United States, 2 Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, 3 Department of Radiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, United States, 4 Department of Physics, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, United States, 5 Department of Biostatistics, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, United States, 6 Department of Radiology, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, United States

We have compared the results of using a Standard Radiological Arterial Input Function (SRAIF) vs. the Manually Selected Arterial Input Function (MSAIF) for estimation of permeability parameters in Dynamic Contrast Enhanced (DCE)-MR images of rats using a nested model selection approach. DCE experiments were performed using Gd-DTPA and Gadofosveset contrast agents which have different molecular sizes. The results show that when estimation in done using the two AIFs, there is less variation in the estimated value of the forward vascular transfer constant (Ktrans) compared to the estimated values of the extracellular-extravascular space volume (ve) and plasma volume (vp).

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