Tracy Richmond McKnight1, Kenneth James
Smith1, Susan Chang2, Mitchel Berger2
1Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University
of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States; 2Neurological
Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
We
performed 1D HRMAS and 2D TOCSY MR spectroscopy on a cohort of biopsies from
high and low grade non-contrast-enhancing astrocytoma. We quantified PC, GPC,
free Cho, and the GPC:PC concentration ratio as well as cell proliferation
and cell density. Our results show that GPC is the predominant
choline-containing compound in non-enhancing astrocytoma irrespective of
grade and that there is a positive association between Ki-67, tCho, and GPC,
but not PC. These results suggest that the presence of contrast-enhancement
influences choline metabolism in astrocytoma.