Research Article

Application of Distributed Parameter Model to Assessment of Glioma IDH Mutation Status by Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Table 1

Median value and interquartile range (i.e., range between the 25th and the 75th percentile, in parentheses) of kinetic parameters of two tracer kinetic models in IDH-mutant gliomas and IDH-wildtype gliomas and the results of the Wilcoxon test.

ModelParametersIDH-mutant (n = 24)IDH-wildtype (n = 31) value

ToftsKtrans (min−1)0.02 (0.01–0.10)0.07 (0.04–0.09)0.013
Ve (mL/100 mL)0.24 (0.00–8.65)10.01 (7.86–16.10)<0.001
Kep (min−1)0.67 (0.28–70.53)0.49 (0.35–1.00)0.525
DPF (mL/min/100 mL)9.21 (4.70–12.82)12.48 (10.04–14.56)0.018
PS (mL/min/100 mL)0.21 (0.03–1.52)3.38 (2.41–5.74)<0.001
E (%)1.36 (0.50–10.86)23.10 (16.05–36.99)<0.001
Ve (mL/100 mL)0.25 (0.12–9.91)9.30 (5.69–15.11)0.002
Vp (mL/100 mL)0.21 (0.06–0.44)1.59 (0.93–2.43)<0.001