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Abstract #2277

The complementary value of arterial spin labeling next to contrast-enhanced MRI in the diagnosis of brain tumor invasion in mouse models

Houshang Amiri 1,2 , Anna C. Navis 3 , Tom Peeters 1 , William P. Leenders 3 , and Arend Heerschap 1

1 Department of Radiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands, 2 Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands, 3 Department of Pathology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands

Arterial spin labeling (ASL) provides valuable information on cerebral blood flow (CBF) by using blood water molecules as an endogenous tracer. We aimed to first evaluate ASL to diagnose diffuse infiltrative glioma in well characterized xenografts mouse models and then to combine it with the commonly used method, i.e. contrast-enhanced (CE) MRI. We showed that ASL has potentials to detect diffuse infiltrative parts of tumors and therefore could be considered as a complementary value to the CE MRI by which compact growing parts of tumors are diagnosed.

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