%0 Journal Article %A Piechotta, Paula L %A Bonekamp, David %A Sill, Martin %A Wick, Antje %A Wick, Wolfgang %A Bendszus, Martin %A Kickingereder, Philipp %T Increased Delay Between Gadolinium Chelate Administration and T1-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging Acquisition Increases Contrast-Enhancing Tumor Volumes and T1 Intensities in Brain Tumor Patients. %J Investigative radiology %V 53 %N 4 %@ 0020-9996 %C Philadelphia, Pa. %I Lippincott Williams & Wilkins %M DKFZ-2018-00381 %P 223 - 228 %D 2018 %X The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of delayed T1-weighted (T1-w) MRI acquisition after gadolinium chelate administration on brain tumor volumes and T1-w intensities.Fifty-five patients with histologically confirmed, contrast-enhancing intra-axial brain tumors were analyzed in this prospective test-retest study. Patients underwent 2 consecutive 3 T MRI scans (separated by a 1-minute break) during routine follow-up with contrast-enhanced T1 (ceT1-w), T2, and FLAIR acquisition. Macrocyclic gadolinium chelate-based contrast agent was only administered before the first ceT1-w acquisition; median latency to ceT1-w acquisition was 6.72 minutes (IQR, 6.53-6.92) in the first and 16.27 minutes (IQR, 15.49-17.26) in the second scan. Changes in tumor volumes and relative ceT1-w intensities between the 2 acquisitions were quantitatively assessed following semiautomated tumor segmentation (separately for contrast-enhancement [CE], necrosis [NEC], and nonenhancing [NE] tumor).Semiautomatically segmented CE tumor volumes were significantly larger in the second acquisition (median +32 %F PUB:(DE-HGF)16 %9 Journal Article %$ pmid:29200014 %R 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000432 %U https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/132727