Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping of Time-Dependent Susceptibility Changes in Multiple Sclerosis Lesions
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-2019
Publication Title
American Journal of Neuroradiology
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: MR imaging studies have demonstrated that magnetic susceptibility in multiple sclerosis lesions is dependent on lesion age. The objective of this study was to use quantitative susceptibility mapping to determine whether lesions with a hyperintense rim, indicative of iron-laden inflammatory cells (rim +), follow a unique time-dependent trajectory of susceptibility change compared with those without (rim -).
MATERIALS AND METHODS: We studied patients with MS with at least 1 new gadolinium-enhancing lesion and at least 3 longitudinal quantitative susceptibility mapping scans obtained between 1.1 and 6.1 years. Lesions were classified as rim + if a hyperintense rim appeared on quantitative susceptibility mapping at any time. A multilevel growth curve model compared longitudinal susceptibility among rim + and rim - lesions.
RESULTS: Thirty-two new gadolinium-enhancing lesions from 19 patients with MS were included, and 16 lesions (50%) were identified as rim +. Quantitative susceptibility mapping rim + lesions were larger than rim + lesions with gadolinium enhancement (P = .001). Among all lesions, susceptibility increased sharply after enhancement to a peak between 1 and 2 years followed by a decrease. The overall susceptibility curve height for rim - lesions was 4.27 parts per billion lower than that for rim + lesions (P = .01). Rim - lesions demonstrated a higher linear slope relative to rim + lesions (P = .023) but faster cubic decay relative to rim + lesions (P = .005). Rim lesions started decaying approximately 2 years earlier compared with rim + lesions.
CONCLUSIONS: There was a marked difference in the susceptibility temporal trajectory between rim + and rim + lesions during the first 6 years of lesion formation. Most rim + lesions retain iron for years after the initial lesion appearance.
Repository Citation
Zhang, S.; Nguyen, T.D.; Hurtado Rua, Sandra M.; Kaunzner, U.W.; Pandya, S.; Kovanlikaya, I.; Spincemaille, P.; Wang, Y.; and Gauthier, S.A., "Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping of Time-Dependent Susceptibility Changes in Multiple Sclerosis Lesions" (2019). Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications. 289.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/scimath_facpub/289
DOI
10.3174/ajnr.A6071
Volume
40
Issue
6
Comments
This work was supported, in part, by grants from the National Institutes of Health (R01NS090464, R01NS104283, R01NS105144, S10 OD021782), the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (RG-1602-07671), and grant UL1 TR000456-06 from the Weill Cornell Clinical and Translational Science Center.