TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hahn, Artur
AU  - Bode, Julia
AU  - Krwel, Thomas
AU  - Kampf, Thomas
AU  - Buschle, Lukas R
AU  - Sturm, Volker
AU  - Zhang, Kevin Sun
AU  - Tews, Bjrn
AU  - Schlemmer, Heinz-Peter
AU  - Heiland, Sabine
AU  - Bendszus, Martin
AU  - Ziener, Christian H
AU  - Breckwoldt, Michael O
AU  - Kurz, Felix Tobias
TI  - Gibbs point field model quantifies disorder in microvasculature of U87-glioblastoma.
JO  - Journal of theoretical biology
VL  - 494
SN  - 0022-5193
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Elsevier Ltd.
M1  - DKFZ-2020-00510
SP  - 110230
PY  - 2020
N1  - 2020 Jun 7;494:110230#LA:E010#
AB  - Microvascular proliferation in glioblastoma multiforme is a biological key mechanism to facilitate tumor growth and infiltration and a main target for treatment interventions. The vascular architecture can be obtained by Single Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM) to evaluate vascular heterogeneity in tumorous tissue. We make use of the Gibbs point field model to quantify the order of regularity in capillary distributions found in the U87 glioblastoma model in a murine model and to compare tumorous and healthy brain tissue. A single model parameter Γ was assigned that is linked to tissue-specific vascular topology through Monte-Carlo simulations. Distributions of the model parameter Γ differ significantly between glioblastoma tissue with mean 〈ΓG〉=2.1±0.4, as compared to healthy brain tissue with mean 〈ΓH〉=4.9±0.4, suggesting that the average Γ-value allows for tissue differentiation. These results may be used for diagnostic magnetic resonance imaging, where it has been shown recently that Γ is linked to tissue-inherent relaxation parameters.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:32142806
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.jtbi.2020.110230
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/153900
ER  -