Samantha
Jane Mills1,2, Gerard Thompson1, Giovanni Buonacorrsi1,
Geoff James Parker1, Alan Jackson1,2
1Imaging Science and Biomedical
Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; 2Department
of Neuroradiology, Salford Royal Foundation Trust Hospital, Salford, Greater
Manchester, United Kingdom
The
established technique for measuring Enhancing Fraction utilises the initial
area under the concentration curve derived from a DCE-MRI acquisition. This
can be time consuming and requires complex post processing analysis. This
study examines the feasibility of obtaining an measure of Enhancing Fraction
from conventional, pre and post contrast T1weighted imaging and compares this
to the established DCE-MRI derived technique. The two methods show good
correlation but are not directly interchangeable methods of measuring
Enhancing Fraction.