Combining Diffusion Tensor Metrics and DSC Perfusion Imaging: Can It Improve the Diagnostic Accuracy in Differentiating Tumefactive Demyelination from High-Grade Glioma?

Shivaprakash Basavanthaiah Hiremath A Muraleedharan Savith Kumar Chinmay P Nagesh Chandrasekharan Kesavadas Mathew Abraham T R Kapilamoorthy Bejoy Thomas

Published in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2017)

DTI and DSC perfusion add profoundly to conventional imaging in differentiating tumefactive demyelinating lesions and high-grade gliomas. The combination of DTI metrics and DSC perfusion markedly improved diagnostic accuracy.

Keyphrases

high grade
contrast enhanced
low grade
high resolution
white matter
mass spectrometry
fluorescence imaging