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Abstract
As current radiological approaches cannot accurately localize prostate cancer in vivo, biopsies are conducted at random within prostates for patients at risk for prostate cancer, leading to high false-negative rates. Metabolomic imaging can map cancer-specific biomolecular profile values onto anatomical structures to direct biopsy. In this preliminary study, we evaluated five whole prostates removed during prostatectomy from biopsy-proven cancer patients on a 7-tesla human whole-body magnetic resonance scanner. Localized, multi–cross-sectional, multivoxel magnetic resonance spectra were used to construct a malignancy index based on prostate cancer metabolomic profiles obtained from previous intact tissue analyses with a 14-tesla spectrometer. This calculated malignancy index is linearly correlated with lesion size and demonstrates a 93 to 97% overall accuracy for detecting the presence of prostate cancer lesions, suggesting the potential clinical utility of this approach.
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↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.
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Citation: C.-L. Wu, K. W. Jordan, E. M. Ratai, J. Sheng, C. B. Adkins, E. M. DeFeo, B. G. Jenkins, L. Ying, W. S. McDougal, L. L. Cheng, Metabolomic Imaging for Human Prostate Cancer Detection. Sci. Transl. Med. 2, 16ra8 (2010).
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