MR multitasking-based dynamic imaging forcerebrovascular evaluation (MT-DICE) in brain tumors

Brain tumors represent a great therapeutic challenge and tend to impact blood brain barrier (BBB) integrity, angiogenesis, and vascularity. Dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI is widely used to quantify BBB permeability and dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI (DSC) is used to quantify cerebral perfusion. We incorporated the newly developed MR multitasking-based dynamic imaging for cerebrovascular evaluation (MT-DICE) technique to achieve simultaneous DCE and DSC acquisition with a single-dose injection. MT-DICE could quantify DCE and DSC parameters with good inter-reader agreement in patients with brain tumors. The intratumoral enhanced region showed more severe BBB disruption and higher perfusion than the peritumoral T2-hyperintense regions.