- Title
- Spiral MRSI and tissue segmentation of normal-appearing white matter and white matter lesions in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis patients
- Creator
- Al-iedani, Oun; Ribbons, Karen; Gholizadeh, Neda; Lechner-Scott, Jeanette; Quadrelli, Scott; Lea, Rodney; Andronesi, Ovidiu; Ramadan, Saadallah
- Relation
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Vol. 74, Issue December 2020, p. 21-30
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mri.2020.09.001
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Purpose: To evaluate the performance of novel spiral MRSI and tissue segmentation pipeline of the brain, to investigate neurometabolic changes in normal-appearing white matter (NAWM) and white matter lesions (WML) of stable relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) compared to healthy controls (HCs). Methods: Spiral 3D MRSI using LASER-GOIA-W [16,4] was undertaken on 16 RRMS patients and 9 HCs, to acquire MRSI data from a large volume of interest (VOI) 320 cm3 and analyzed using LCModel. MRSI data and voxel tissue segmentation were compared between the two cohorts using t-tests. Support vector machine (SVM) was used to classify tissue types and assessed by accuracy, sensitivity and specificity. Results: Compared to HCs, RRMS demonstrated a statistically significant reduction in all mean brain tissues and increase in CSF volume. Within VOI, WM decreased (−10%) and CSF increased (41%) in RRMS compared to HCs (p < 0.001). MRSI revealed that total creatine (tCr) ratios of N-acetylaspartate and glutamate+glutamine in WML were significantly lower than NAWM-MS (−9%, −8%) and HCs (−14%, −10%), respectively. Myo-inositol/tCr in WML was significantly higher than NAWM-MS (14%) and HCs (10%). SVM of MRSI yielded accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of 86%, 95%, and 70%, respectively for HCs vs WML, which were higher than HC vs NAWM and WML vs NAWM models. Conclusion: This study demonstrates the benefit of MRSI in evaluating MS neurometabolic changes in NAWM. SVM of MRSI data in the MS brain may be suited for clinical monitoring and progression of MS patients. Longitudinal MRSI studies are warranted.
- Subject
- multiple sclerosis; magnetic resonance spectroscopy; chemical shift imaging; MRSI; spiral-MRSI; CSI
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1444678
- Identifier
- uon:42377
- Identifier
- ISSN:0730-725X
- Language
- eng
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