Keywords: Tumors (Post-Treatment), Translational Studies, Treatment response, Cancer, Glioblastoma (GBM), Reproducibility, Perfusion, Quantitative Imaging
Motivation: Chemoradiation in patients with glioblastoma (GBM) causes a 10-13% perfusion decrease in normal appearing tissue, confounding reproducibility of ASL measurements and longitudinal treatment evaluations. This confounds intra-patient and inter-patient comparisons, irrespective of perfusion variations from tumor progression/response.
Goal(s): To improve ASL measurement reproducibility and longitudinal treatment assessment in GBM patients using intensity normalization methods.
Approach: Different normalization methods were applied to ASL measured perfusion in a prospective study for reproducibility analyses and response assessment.
Results: Intensity normalization of ASL measured perfusion in GBM patients improved reproducibility enabling longitudinal treatment evaluation for intra- and inter-patient comparisons.
Impact: Intensity normalization of ASL reduces variability, improves reproducibility, and enables accurate quantitative intra- and inter-patient comparison. This can play an important role in evaluating treatment response assessment and building predictive models with ASL across different studies and sites.
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