Sensitivity schemes for dynamic glucose‐enhanced magnetic resonance imaging to detect glucose uptake and clearance in mouse brain at 3 T

• Published in: NMR in biomedicine 2022-03, Vol.35 (3), p.e4640-n/a
• Main Authors: Huang, Jianpan, Lai, Joseph H. C., Han, Xiongqi, Chen, Zilin, Xiao, Peng, Liu, Yang, Chen, Lin, Xu, Jiadi, Chan, Kannie W. Y.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Animals; Biological products; Brain; Brain - metabolism; Carr–Purcell–Meiboom–Gill; Cerebrospinal fluid; dynamic glucose‐enhanced; Female; Field strength; Glucose; Glucose - metabolism; Image Enhancement - methods; Injection; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Medical imaging; Mice; Mice, Inbred C57BL; multilinear singular value decomposition; Neuroimaging; Noise reduction; on‐resonance spin‐lock; on‐resonance variable delay multipulse; Parenchyma; Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; Resonance; Sensitivity; Sensitivity and Specificity; Singular value decomposition
• ISSN: 0952-3480; 1099-1492
• DOI: 10.1002/nbm.4640

We investigated three dynamic glucose‐enhanced (DGE) MRI methods for sensitively monitoring glucose uptake and clearance in both brain parenchyma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) at clinical field strength (3 T). By comparing three sequences, namely, Carr–Purcell–Meiboom–Gill (CPMG), on‐resonance variable delay multipulse (onVDMP), and on‐resonance spin‐lock (onSL), a high‐sensitivity DGE MRI scheme with truncated multilinear singular value decomposition (MLSVD) denoising was proposed. The CPMG method showed the highest sensitivity in detecting the parenchymal DGE signal among the three methods, while both onVDMP and onSL were more robust for CSF DGE imaging. Here, onVDMP was applied for CSF imaging, as it displayed the best stability of the DGE results in this study. The truncated MLSVD denoising method was incorporated to further improve the sensitivity. The proposed DGE MRI scheme was examined in mouse brain with 50%/25%/12.5% w/w D‐glucose injections. The results showed that this combination could detect DGE signal changes from the brain parenchyma and CSF with as low as a 12.5% w/w D‐glucose injection. The proposed DGE MRI schemes could sensitively detect the glucose signal change from brain parenchyma and CSF after D‐glucose injection at a clinically relevant concentration, demonstrating high potential for clinical translation. Sensitive dynamic glucose‐enhanced (DGE) MRI schemes composed of the Carr–Purcell–Meiboom–Gill (CPMG) method for imaging parenchyma and the on‐resonance variable delay multipulse (onVDMP) method for imaging CSF were proposed to detect the cerebral glucose signal at 3‐T MRI, by comparing three sequences including CPMG, onVDMP, and on‐resonance spin‐lock (onSL). Truncated multilinear singular value decomposition was applied for denoising to further improve the sensitivity.