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BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER
Volume 110, Issue 7, Pages 1727-1732Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2014.76
Keywords
tumour viscoelasticity; magnetic resonance elastography; vascular targeting agents; response biomarker
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- Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award (DHPA) [EP/P505828/1]
- AstraZeneca
- The Institute of Cancer Research Cancer Research UK
- EPSRC Cancer Imaging Centre, in association with the MRC and Department of Health (England) [C1060/A10334]
- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre
- The Wellcome Trust [091763Z/10/Z]
- NHS
- Cancer Research UK [16464] Funding Source: researchfish
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/H046526/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/H046526/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Background: Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is an emerging imaging technique that affords non-invasive quantitative assessment and visualization of tissue mechanical properties in vivo. Methods: In this study, MRE was used to quantify (kPa) the absolute value of the complex shear modulus |G*|, elasticity G(d) and viscosity G(l) of SW620 human colorectal cancer xenografts before and 24 h after treatment with either 200 mgkg(-1) of the vascular disrupting agent ZD6126 (N-acetylcolchinol-O-phosphate) or vehicle control, and the data were compared with changes in water diffusivity measured by diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging. Results: A heterogeneous distribution of |G*|, Gd and Gl was observed pre-treatment with an intertumoral coefficient of variation of 13% for |G*|. There were no significant changes in the vehicle-treated cohort. In contrast, ZD6126 induced a significant decrease in the tumour-averaged |G*| (Po0.01), G(d) (P<0.01) and G(l) (P<0.05), and this was associated with histologically confirmed central necrosis. This reduction in tumour viscoelasticity occurred at a time when no significant change in tumour apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) was observed. Conclusions: These data demonstrate that MRE can provide early imaging biomarkers for treatment-induced tumour necrosis.
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