Quantitative Steady-State and Dynamic Metabolic MRI for Evaluating Patients with Glioma

项目摘要 加州大学旧金山分校和通用电气公司的团队将解决目前的MR代谢成像方法的局限性， 一套硬件和软件工具，为自动成像处方提供改进的策略 序列，以减少操作者的差异，提供更广泛的病变覆盖范围，并能够改善 系列比较我们还将简化和精简对所得数据的处理和解释 通过使用我们的开放源代码，DICOM兼容软件包，SIVIC。这将包括一些功能， 评估来自连续成像检查的数据，以及扩展可用的算法， 解决更复杂类型的代谢成像数据的分析。另一个关键的组成部分， 建议将完善成像和组织采集工作流程，并整合收集的定量 生物标志物在临床上的应用

Project Summary The UCSF and GE team will address the limitations of current MR metabolic imaging approaches by developing a package of hardware and software tools to provide improved strategies for automatic prescription of imaging sequences to reduce operator differences, provide more extensive coverage of the lesion and enable improved serial comparisons. We will also simplify and streamline the processing and interpretation of the resulting data by using our open source, DICOM compatible software package, SIVIC. This will include features to facilitate the assessment of data from serial imaging examinations, as well as expanding the algorithms available to address the analysis of more complex types of metabolic imaging data. A further critical component of the proposal will be to refine the imaging and tissue acquisition workflow and integration of collected quantitative biomarkers in the clinical setting.