Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MR Imaging of Nonenhancing T2 High-Signal-Intensity Lesions in Baseline and Posttreatment Glioblastoma: Temporal Change and Prognostic Value

I. Hwang; S.H. Choi; C.-K. Park; T.M. Kim; S.-H. Park; J.K. Won; I.H. Kim; S.-T. Lee; R.-E. Yoo; K.M. Kang; T.J. Yun; J.-H. Kim; C.-H. Sohn

doi:10.3174/ajnr.A6323

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The prognostic value of dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging on nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions in patients with glioblastoma has not been thoroughly elucidated to date. We evaluated the temporal change and prognostic value for progression-free survival of dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging–derived pharmacokinetic parameters on nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions in patients with glioblastoma before and after standard treatment, including gross total surgical resection.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: This retrospective study included 33 patients who were newly diagnosed with glioblastoma and treated with gross total surgical resection followed by concurrent chemoradiation therapy and adjuvant chemotherapy with temozolomide in a single institution. All patients underwent dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging before surgery as a baseline and after completion of maximal surgical resection and concurrent chemoradiation therapy. On the whole nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesion, dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging–derived pharmacokinetic parameters (volume transfer constant [K^trans], volume of extravascular extracellular space [v_e]_, and blood plasma volume [v_p]) were calculated. The Cox proportional hazards regression model analysis was performed to determine the histogram features or percentage changes of pharmacokinetic parameters related to progression-free survival.

RESULTS: Baseline median K^trans, baseline first quartile K^trans, and posttreatment median K^trans were significant independent variables, as determined by univariate analysis (P < .05). By multivariate Cox regression analysis including methylation status of O⁶-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase, baseline median K^trans was determined to be the significant independent variable and was negatively related to progression-free survival (hazard ratio = 1.48, P = .003).

CONCLUSIONS: Baseline median K^trans from nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions could be a potential prognostic imaging biomarker in patients undergoing gross total surgical resection followed by standard therapy for glioblastoma.

ABBREVIATIONS:

CCRT: concurrent chemoradiation therapy
DCE: dynamic contrast-enhanced
K^trans: volume transfer constant
MGMT: O⁶-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase
PFS: progression-free survival
TMZ: temozolomide
v_e: volume of extravascular extracellular space
v_p: blood plasma volume

The standard treatment of glioblastoma is a multimodality strategy including maximal safe surgical resection and radiation therapy with concomitant and adjuvant temozolomide (TMZ).^1,2 Glioblastoma is a diffusely infiltrating and widespread malignant neoplasm. The main target for surgical resection to improve survival is a contrast-enhancing, high-grade portion of the tumor with a leaky BBB.^3,4 However, certain nonenhancing infiltrative tumor cells may remain after surgical resection and intermingle with peritumoral edema. Unfortunately, those lesions are difficult to distinguish because they are similarly presenting as high-signal-intensity lesions on T2-weighted or FLAIR images. The biologic nature of nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions could be more important for the prognosis than that of the contrast-enhancing high-grade tumor portion, which would be removed by maximal safe surgical resection.

Dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MR imaging could provide information on permeability and angiogenesis by quantitative pharmacokinetic parameters.^5,6 Previous studies with DCE-MR imaging in gliomas have already demonstrated the capability of predicting histologic grading, differentiating pseudoprogression from progression, and predicting the progression of persistent enhancing nodules after standard treatment.^7⇓-9 A recent histopathologic study suggested that nonenhancing tumor contains a comparable amount of infiltrative tumor to enhancing tumor in glioblastomas.¹⁰ We hypothesized that a variable proportion of peritumoral edema, low-grade infiltrative tumor, or even nonenhancing high-grade tumors might coexist in the nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions. As the tumor grade increases, it tends to have a large portion of immature vasculature. Therefore, DCE-MR imaging–derived pharmacokinetic parameters might have the potential to predict the biologic behavior of those lesions. Meanwhile, the permeability of the BBB may affect the delivery of the chemotherapeutic drug to brain tissue. Although brain tumors are different from other tumors due to their unique BBB structure, previous studies of malignant tumors outside the brain, such as cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, and lung cancer, have demonstrated that increased permeability or angiogenesis was related to a favorable tumor response.^11⇓-13 Therefore, there is a possibility that increased permeability at certain time points might be related to a favorable treatment response.

Some studies have focused on the perfusion characteristics of nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions in glioblastoma to predict prognosis.^14⇓-16 However, there have been few investigations of the DCE-MR imaging–derived pharmacokinetic parameters of nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions of glioblastoma at the time of baseline and post concurrent chemoradiation therapy (CCRT) and their temporal change.

Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the temporal change and prognostic value for progression-free survival (PFS) of DCE-MR imaging–derived pharmacokinetic parameters on nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions in patients with glioblastoma before and after standard treatment, including gross total surgical resection.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Study Population

The institutional review board of our institution approved this single-center, retrospective study, and informed consent was waived. By means of a data base search between January 2010 and December 2017, two hundred eighty-nine consecutive patients were confirmed to have glioblastoma by histopathologic diagnosis. Two neuropathologists performed the histopathologic diagnosis at our institution (S.-H.P. and J.K.W. with 32 and 17 years of experience in pathology, respectively). Among the patients, the eligible study population was defined by the following inclusion criteria: The patient had a histopathologic diagnosis of supratentorial glioblastoma, underwent baseline DCE-MR imaging 24–48 hours before the operation, underwent maximal surgical resection (near-total or gross-total resection) followed by CCRT with TMZ administration, and underwent posttreatment DCE-MR imaging within 1 month after completion of CCRT. Ultimately, 33 patients met the inclusion criteria and were included in our study (Fig 1). All patients except 2 had 6 cycles of adjuvant TMZ administration 1 month after the completion of CCRT. One patient stopped adjuvant TMZ after 4 cycles because of disease progression and switched to second-line chemotherapy; another patient was discontinued after 2 cycles of TMZ administration due to severe skin eruption.

Fig 1.

Flow chart for patient selection.

Calculation of PFS Time

All patients routinely visited the outpatient clinic and underwent follow-up brain MR imaging with a brain tumor evaluation protocol at our institution every 3 months for the first 2 years. Then the follow-up period was extended to 6 months if the patient had no clinical or radiologic evidence of progression. Clinicians and radiologists assessed the patient’s response to treatment using the Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology criteria.¹⁷ If the patient met at least 1 of the following criteria at each visit, the patient was diagnosed with disease progression: 1) >25% increase in the sum of the products of the perpendicular diameters of enhancing lesions, compared with the smallest tumor measurement obtained either at baseline or best response; 2) substantial increase in T2/FLAIR nonenhancing lesion; 3) any new lesion; 4) evident clinical deterioration not attributable to other causes apart from the tumor; and 5) clear progression of nonmeasurable disease. If there was imaging evidence of an increasingly enhancing lesion that did not meet the criteria of progression, short-term follow-up imaging was performed in 1–2 months. Then, the progression of disease was confirmed by subsequent imaging or by histopathologic diagnosis. In case of changing the treatment plan due to disease progression, as decided by the multidisciplinary clinic in our institution, it was also regarded as a disease progression. The PFS was calculated between the date of initial imaging diagnosis and the date assessed as disease progression or the last follow-up date if the patient had no evidence of disease at the last follow-up visit.

Image Acquisition

All patients underwent brain MR imaging using a 3T MR imaging scanner (Magnetom Verio or Skyra; Siemens, Erlangen, Germany) with a 32-channel head coil. Our institution’s routine brain MR imaging protocol for brain tumor evaluation included pre- and postcontrast 3D T1-weighted MPRAGE sequences (TR, 558 ms; TE, 1.9 ms; flip angle, 9°; matrix, 256 × 232; FOV, 220 × 250 mm; section thickness, 1 mm; and NEX, 1), a transverse T2 FLAIR sequence (TR, 9000 ms; TE, 97; ms; TI, 2500 ms; flip angle, 130°; matrix, 384 × 348; FOV, 199 × 220 mm; section thickness, 5 mm; and NEX, 1), and transverse T2WI with a TSE sequence (TR, 5160 ms; TE, 91 ms; flip angle, 124°–130°; matrix, 640 × 510–580; FOV, 175–199 × 220 mm; section thickness, 5 mm; NEX, 1).

DCE-MR images were obtained using a transverse T1-weighted spoiled gradient-echo sequence (TR, 2.8 ms; TE, 1.0 ms; flip angle, 10°; matrix, 192 × 192; FOV, 240 × 240; and section thickness, 3 mm) after intravenous administration of gadobutrol (Gadovist; Bayer Schering Pharma, Berlin, Germany) at a dose of 0.1 mmol/kg of body weight and at a rate of 4 mL/s followed by a 30-mL saline chaser using a power injector (Spectris; MedRad, Indianola, Pennsylvania). Sixty dynamic scans with a time resolution of 4.97 seconds were acquired with 40 slices of transverse plane images; the total acquisition time was 5 minutes 8 seconds.

Image Analysis

DCE-MR images were transferred to dedicated workstations, and postprocessing was performed with commercial software (nordicICE 4.0.6; NordicNeuroLab, Bergen, Norway).

We performed coregistration of FLAIR and DCE-MR imaging on postcontrast 3D T1WI as structural imaging achieved automatically by an algorithm that found an optimal rigid transformation based on the geometric information.¹⁸ If there was geometric distortion due to postsurgical changes, manual correction was performed for the best match of nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions. After the motion correction of DCE-MR imaging volume, deconvolution with the arterial input function was performed in the pharmacokinetic model. After the ROI was positioned in the superior sagittal sinus at the level of the lateral ventricles, the average arterial input function curve from 3 to 5 pixels of the best arterial input function candidate was semiautomatically determined. The baseline T1 value was fixed at 1000 ms in this study because it would give more reliable results.^19,20 Subsequently, DCE-MR imaging–derived pharmacokinetic parametric maps were generated by the extended Tofts model²¹; volume transfer constant map (K^trans, minute⁻¹), extravascular extracellular space per unit volume of tissue map (v_e, percentage), and blood plasma volume per unit volume of tissue map (v_p, percentage) were calculated on a pixel-by-pixel basis.

Two investigators (I.H. and S.H.C., with 8 and 17 years of experience in neuroradiology) carefully determined the VOI by consensus in every section of nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions on FLAIR images. Enhancing areas on the postcontrast T1-weighted images and cystic/necrotic areas or macrovessels were carefully avoided. The pharmacokinetic parameters on K^trans, v_e, and v_p maps were measured at baseline and on the posttreatment study. The On-line Figure illustrates the representative image-analysis process. For further quantitative analysis, we performed histogram analysis from the total voxel values; the mean, SD, skewness, kurtosis, median, first and third quartile values, fifth and 95th percentile values of each pharmacokinetic parameter, as well as the mask volume of VOIs were calculated. We included the voxels in which each DCE pharmacokinetic parameter value was >0. Furthermore, the percentage change between posttreatment and baseline values of each pharmacokinetic parameter was calculated in each subject as follows:

Percentage Change = (Posttreatment – Baseline)/Baseline ×100.

Other Clinical and Genetic Parameters

In addition to demographic characteristics, the Karnofsky Performance Status score before the operation and the radiation dose of CCRT were investigated to evaluate the prognostic value. Furthermore, the following genetic alterations were investigated in this study: mutation of isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) and promoter methylation of O⁶-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT).

Statistical Analysis

All statistical analyses were performed by open-source statistical language (R for Windows, Version 3.5.1) with the survival analysis package (survival).²² In all statistical tests, a P value < .05 was considered a significance level. Descriptive statistics summarized clinical and genetic characteristics. A univariate Cox proportional hazards regression model was used to investigate differentiating clinical, genetic, and pharmacokinetic parameters for PFS. A variance inflation factor was calculated for the significant pharmacokinetic parameters by univariate analysis, and variables with >10 were sequentially excluded to exclude variables having multicollinearity. Finally, multivariate Cox proportional hazard model analyses were performed to identify independent pharmacokinetic parameters for differentiating PFS. The optimal cutoff value was calculated by the published method using the R language.²³ After that step, the Kaplan-Meier survival curve was plotted, and the log-rank test was performed.

RESULTS

Clinical and Genetic Characteristics

Clinical and genetic characteristics are summarized in Table 1. The median PFS of our study population was 22.6 months (689 days). Twenty-six patients were diagnosed with tumor progression during the follow-up period. The prevalence of an IDH mutation was 6.1%, and the promoter methylation of MGMT was 66.7% (Table 1).

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Table 1:

Clinical and genetic characteristics of our study population and prognostic value by univariate Cox regression test

The patients with promoter methylation of MGMT of the tumor showed significantly better survival with a hazard ratio of 0.256 (P = .001). Otherwise, none of the clinical or genetic characteristics, the volume of VOI, or its percentage change showed statistical significance by univariate Cox regression (Table 1).

Univariate Cox Proportional Hazards Regression Model for DCE-MR Imaging–Derived Pharmacokinetic Parameters

The univariate Cox regression model of each histogram feature of DCE-MR imaging–derived pharmacokinetic parameters from baseline and posttreatment T2 high-signal-intensity lesions was performed and is described in the On-line Table. The variables with P values < .05 by the Wald test were baseline median K^trans, baseline first quartile K^trans, and posttreatment median K^trans (Table 2). Although the percentage change of kurtosis K^trans was marginally insignificant (P = .066), the percentage change of the pharmacokinetic parameter was not determined to be a significant variable.

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Table 2:

Significant variables by univariate Cox proportional hazards model analysis of pharmacokinetic parameters

Multivariate Cox Proportional Hazards Regression Model for DCE-MR Imaging–Derived Pharmacokinetic Parameters

Both the baseline median and first quartile K^trans showed significance on univariate analysis. We selected the median value, rather than the first quartile, for further analysis because of the better interpretability of this parameter. After that step, we performed a multivariate Cox regression test with baseline and posttreatment median K^trans. The Cox regression model with both baseline and posttreatment median K^trans showed that neither variable was significant (Table 3). However, after adding the methylation status of MGMT as a clinical variable in the model, the multivariate Cox regression test revealed that the baseline median K^trans and the methylation status of MGMT were significant independent variables (Table 3). Finally, we performed a multivariate Cox regression test with a stepwise variable selection method including these variables: baseline median K^trans, posttreatment median K^trans, percentage change of kurtosis K^trans, and the methylation status of MGMT. The stepwise method selected the variables of baseline median K^trans and the methylation status of MGMT as significant independent variables (P = .003 and P < .001, respectively). The percentage change of kurtosis K^trans was included in the model, but it was not a significant variable (P = .108). The posttreatment median K^trans was excluded from the model by stepwise variable selection.

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Table 3:

Multivariate Cox proportional hazard model analysis of pharmacokinetic parameters^{^a}

Comparison of Survival Curves by the Binary Representation of Differentiating Variables

Kaplan-Meier survival plots were compared by the binary representation of the baseline median K^trans (Fig 2). The calculated optimal cutoff value for baseline median K^trans was 0.00470 min⁻¹. By means of the log-rank test, baseline median K^trans from T2 high-signal-intensity lesions showed a significant difference in the survival curve (P = .030). In subgroup analysis grouped by the methylation status of MGMT, the significant difference of the survival curve by baseline median K^trans was seen only in patients with MGMT methylated (n = 22, P = .029), while it did not reach statistical significance in patients with unmethylated MGMT (n = 11, P = .256). However, the survival curves showed the consistent trend of the higher value group of baseline median K^trans being related to poor survival. Representative cases are illustrated in Fig 3.

Fig 2.

Kaplan-Meier curves of baseline median K^trans from a T2 high-signal-intensity lesion (A) and subgroup curves grouped by the methylation status of MGMT (B). mMGMT indicates methylated O⁶-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase; uMGMT, unmethylated MGMT.

Fig 3.

Representative cases. A 54-year-old man who was diagnosed with glioblastoma IDH wild-type in the left frontal lobe. Nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions around the enhancing mass (postcontrast images are not shown) are noted on baseline FLAIR images with an overlay of the K^trans map (A). Posttreatment FLAIR images with an overlay K^trans map show residual T2 high-signal-intensity lesions around the surgical margin (B). A cumulative histogram is shown in C. The red bar and line indicate the distribution of the baseline K^trans of nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions, while the blue bar and line show the distribution of the posttreatment K^trans values. The baseline median K^trans of nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions was 0.00258 min⁻¹. The patient survived 1600 days after the diagnosis without progression. A 42-year-old woman was diagnosed with glioblastoma IDH wild-type in the left temporal lobe. Baseline (D) and posttreatment (E) FLAIR images with an overlay of the K^trans map show T2 high-signal-intensity lesions around the enhancing tumor (postcontrast images are not shown), partially removed by an operation, but remnant T2 high-signal-intensity lesions are noted. A cumulative histogram is shown in F. The baseline median K^trans is 0.00670 min⁻¹. The progression-free survival was 347 days, and the recurrent enhancing tumor developed along the superior-posterior surgical margin on subsequent follow-up MR imaging.

DISCUSSION

Our results demonstrate that increased baseline median K^trans from nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions was associated with poor survival by multivariate Cox regression analysis. However, there was no statistically significant pharmacokinetic parameter from the posttreatment study or its percentage change between baseline and posttreatment.

Our study intended to evaluate nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions of glioblastoma. These lesions have been regarded as a mixture of peritumoral edema and infiltrative tumor cells, even including postsurgical changes and radiation effects after treatment. However, in cases in which a sufficient extent of tumor resection was achieved, some patients eventually had tumor recurrence from the near-resection margin.²⁴ Therefore, we postulated that the character of the remaining nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions would be more critical to predict patient survival in cases of gross total resection. A few studies have investigated DCE-MR imaging-derived pharmacokinetic parameters for the prognostic value of T2 high-signal-intensity lesions in high-grade gliomas. Jensen et al²⁵ revealed, from a small study group, that a higher v_e value of peritumoral edema was associated with favorable overall survival. A recent prospective study extensively investigated perfusion characteristics at multiple time points, including baseline, during CCRT with TMZ, and during 6 cycles of adjuvant TMZ.²⁶ Their results supported the higher K^trans of enhancing tumors at the fifth week during CCRT being associated with worse PFS, though baseline relative CBV and CBF in the edema region were marginally statistically insignificant.

In contrast to previous studies, our study evaluated the prognostic value of baseline and posttreatment, in particular post-CCRT DCE-MR imaging-derived pharmacokinetic parameters and their temporal changes with histogram analysis. In addition, our study included patients who underwent gross surgical resection and had no remaining measurable enhancing lesions on follow-up MR imaging. Therefore, the study population was more homogeneous than previous studies, and we could evaluate the true nature of T2 high-signal-intensity lesions at the posttreatment period. Our results were consistent with the findings of a previous study by Kim et al,¹⁶ agreeing that baseline K^trans of T2 high-signal-intensity lesions has potential prognostic value. K^trans is the most representative marker of permeability in the DCE-MR imaging parameter.²⁷ K^trans has been reported to be able to predict the grade of glioma because aggressive tumor cells exhibit a higher portion of immature vessels, resulting in leaky vasculature.⁷ Therefore, a higher baseline K^trans value might reflect the aggressiveness of infiltrating tumor cells in nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions and is probably related to worse PFS.

Unfortunately, our study did not obtain a statistically significant prognostic value of posttreatment DCE-MR imaging–derived pharmacokinetic parameters and their temporal change. The median K^trans from nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions in the posttreatment study showed significance by univariate analysis. However, multivariate analysis revealed that it was not statistically significant for PFS. According to a published study, the initial increase and subsequent overall decrease of K^trans of enhancing tumors were observed in nonresponders during CCRT in glioblastoma.²⁸ The study by these researchers also did not find prognostic value by multivariate Cox regression analysis, except for interval change of K^trans between the pre- and midtreatment scanning during CCRT. A possible explanation of our finding is that the subsequent change in DCE parameters after CCRT could reduce differences between better and worse PFS groups. In addition, some areas of nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions were removed by an operation, and the nature of nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions might not be the same between baseline and posttreatment examinations.

Most interesting, the prognostic value of baseline K^trans of nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions was independent of the methylation status of the MGMT promoter. Methylation of the MGMT promoter is associated with favorable survival for patients with glioblastoma who are treated with CCRT with TMZ.²⁹ The baseline DCE-MR imaging–derived pharmacokinetic parameters may reflect a different aspect of tumor biology than the methylation status of the MGMT promoter. In contrast, the posttreatment K^trans was not significant after adding the methylation status of the MGMT promoter. There is a possibility that the posttreatment K^trans has a relationship to the methylation status of the MGMT promoter. However, that would be beyond the scope of our study, and further studies are warranted.

In our study, only voxels with values greater than zero in the DCE parameter map were used for further histogram analysis. A previous study²⁸ used the DCE parameter >0 as the criterion of successfully fitted pixels. However, our study measured nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions. In the edema portion where the BBB is intact, the K^trans would be near zero. By means of DCE curve fitting, a particular part of those areas would yield zero or even negative K^trans values; therefore, it would not necessarily be a fitting failure. Although particular voxels affected by motion artifacts also yielded nonphysiologic K^trans values due to fitting failure, we believe that such a portion would not be substantial because we performed motion correction. However, we performed analysis with the positive DCE parameter voxel value for the comparability with previous studies and to maintain physiologic meaning.

The present study had a few limitations. First, the retrospective study design had potential selection bias. To minimize the selection bias, we attempted to include all consecutive patients diagnosed with glioblastoma and meeting the inclusion criteria. Second, we used 2D-FLAIR images to draw VOI masks. Therefore, there was a potential risk of spatial mismatch between FLAIR-based VOIs and DCE parametric maps due to the partial volume effect, though we coregistered image volumes. Furthermore, due to the intrinsic infiltrative nature of tumors, the margin of T2 high-signal-intensity lesions did not have a clear border, which may limit the reproducibility of determining the margin of the lesion on FLAIR images. Acquisition of the 3D-FLAIR images and use of automatic or semiautomatic segmentation techniques may improve reproducibility for the lesion. Third, a small sample size limits our ability to derive generalized conclusions from our results. However, to evaluate the nature of nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions after the gross total resection of enhancing tumors, we had to exclude a large number of patients who had remnant measurable enhancing tumors immediately after surgical resection. Therefore, there is a limitation to generalizing our results to all patients with glioblastoma. Moreover, our study excluded subjects who demonstrated measurable enhancing lesions in the posttreatment study. For that reason, we could not evaluate pseudoprogression, which shows newly developed enhancing lesions during CCRT, but it might be related to favorable survival, though this is still controversial.^30,31 In addition, our results showed no statistical survival difference by the presence of the IDH mutation. It was possibly due to a small number of patients with IDH mutation with glioblastoma in our study population, which had insufficient statistical power. Finally, we investigated only PFS, not overall survival. However, the PFS is known to be a surrogate marker of overall survival in glioblastoma.³²

CONCLUSIONS

Baseline median K^trans from nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions could be a potential prognostic imaging biomarker in patients undergoing gross total surgical resection followed by standard therapy for glioblastoma. Our results suggest that DCE pharmacokinetic parameters derived from baseline nonenhancing T2 high-signal-intensity lesions have prognostic value; in contrast, those derived during the posttreatment period or percentage change values appear to have little prognostic value.

Footnotes

This study was supported by grants from the Korea Healthcare Technology R&D Projects, Ministry for Health, Welfare & Family Affairs (HI16C1111); the Brain Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (2016M3C7A1914002); the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (2017R1A2B2006526); the Creative-Pioneering Researchers Program through Seoul National University, and Project Code (IBS-R006-D1).
Disclosures: Seung Hong Choi—RELATED: Grant: government fund.* Tae Min Kim—UNRELATED: Grants/Grants Pending: AstraZeneca–Korea Health Industry Development Institute. *Money paid to the institution.

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Accepted after revision October 2, 2019.

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