An interictal measurement of cerebral oxygen extraction fraction in MRI-negative refractory epilepsy using quantitative susceptibility mapping

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PURPOSE: Oxygen extraction fraction (OEF) can be a factor to identify brain tissue's disability in epileptic patients. This study aimed to assess the OEF's level measurement in refractory epileptic patients (REPs) using a quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) method and to determine whether the OEF parameters change.

METHODS: QSM-OEF maps of 26 REPs and 16 healthy subjects were acquired using 3T MRI with a 64-channel coil. Eighteen regions-of-interest (ROIs) were chosen around the cortex in one appropriate slice of the brain and the mean QSM-OEF for each ROI was obtained. The correlations of QSM-OEF among different clinical characteristics of the disease, as well as between the patients and normal subjects, were also investigated.

RESULTS: QSM-OEF was shown to be significantly higher in REPs (44.9 ± 5.8) than that in HS (41.9 ± 6.2) (p < 0.05). Mean QSM-OEF was statistically lower in the ipsilateral side (44.5 ± 6.6) compared to the contralateral side (46.4 ± 6.8) (P < 0.01). QSM-OEF was illustrated to have a strong positive correlation with the attack duration (r = 0.6), and a moderate negative correlation with the attack frequency (r = -0.3). Using an optimized support vector machine algorithm, we could predict the disease in subjects having abnormal OEF values in the brain-selected-ROIs with sensitivity, specificity, AUC, and the precision of 0.96, 1, 0.98, and 1, respectively.

CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study revealed that QSM-OEF of the REPs' brain is higher than that of HS, which indicates that QSM-OEF is associated with disease activity.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:85

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Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB) - 85(2021) vom: 04. Mai, Seite 87-97

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ebrahimi, Tayyebeh [VerfasserIn]
Tafakhori, Abbas [VerfasserIn]
Hashemi, Hassan [VerfasserIn]
Ali Oghabian, Mohammad [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Hypometabolism
Journal Article
MRI-negative refractory epilepsy
Oxygen
Oxygen extraction fraction
Quantitative susceptibility mapping
S88TT14065

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Date Completed 25.06.2021

Date Revised 25.06.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ejmp.2021.03.039

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM325362009