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Imaging Features for the Risks for Recurrence After Stereotactic Radiosurgery in Brain Metastasis

Recruiting
Conditions
Brain Metastases
Radiosurgery
Interventions
Diagnostic Test: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Diagnostic Test: Diffusion-weighted MRI
Diagnostic Test: Arterial spin labeling (ASL)
Diagnostic Test: Dynamic susceptibility contrast-MRI (DSC-MRI)
Registration Number
NCT05868928
Lead Sponsor
Asan Medical Center
Brief Summary

This trial uses multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to develop and validate imaging risk score to predict radiation necrosis in participants with brain metastasis treated with radiation therapy. Diagnostic procedures, such as multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), may improve the ability to diagnose radiation necrosis early and help establish treatment strategies.

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

I. To develop an imaging risk score for recurrence after stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) in brain metastasis using multiparametric MRI.

II. To validate the imaging risk score in retrospective external validation and prospective internal validation test set.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE:

I. To predict radiation necrosis using imaging risk score.

OUTLINE:

Participants undergo multi-parametric MRI including 3D pre- and contrast-enhanced T1 weighted image, T2 weighted image, diffusion-weighted image, dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI, and arterial spin labeling image before receiving SRS, and every 3 months after SRS.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
132
Inclusion Criteria
  1. Patients who underwent stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS, gamma-knife radiosurgery or cyberknife radiosurgery) for brain metastases

  2. Patients with lesions eligible for SRS :

    • One to ten newly diagnosed brain metastases
    • Patients without acute neurological symptom
  3. Patients with a Karnofsky performance status score of 70 or higher

  4. Patients who underwent brain MRI within 1 month of enrollment

  5. Patients with measurable enhancing lesions on MRI.

  6. Patients who have available reference standard (second-look surgery for recurrence) or available follow up imaging for clinic-radiologic reference standard.

  7. A longest diameter > 1.5 cm for tumor habitat analysis.

Exclusion criteria:

  1. Patients who have undergone prior brain surgery, SRS, or whole-brain radiation therapy.
  2. Patients who are diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma, germ-cell tumor, small-cell lung cancer, leptomeningeal disease, or unknown primary tumor.
  3. Patients with age < 18 years.
  4. Patients without baseline MRI.
  5. Patients with nonmeasurable enhancing lesions on MRI : all other lesions, including lesions with longest dimension < 10 mm, lesions with borders that cannot be reproducibly measured, dural metastases, bony skull metastases, and leptomeningeal disease.
Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Brain metastases patients who received stereotactic radiosurgeryDiffusion-weighted MRIPatients with brain metastases who received stereotactic radiosurgery
Brain metastases patients who received stereotactic radiosurgeryArterial spin labeling (ASL)Patients with brain metastases who received stereotactic radiosurgery
Brain metastases patients who received stereotactic radiosurgeryMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI)Patients with brain metastases who received stereotactic radiosurgery
Brain metastases patients who received stereotactic radiosurgeryDynamic susceptibility contrast-MRI (DSC-MRI)Patients with brain metastases who received stereotactic radiosurgery
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Time to progressionup to 24 months

The time from the date of SRS for brain metastasis until the date of progression.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Response rateup to 24 months

The response is determined by response assessment in neuro-oncology brain metastases (RANO-BM) criteria. Clinical and radiologic assessments per lesion and person are carried out at every MRI follow-up using the MRI before SRS as the baseline.

Occurence rate of radiation necrosis12 months

The rate of occurrence of radiation necrosis per lesion is determined through a combination of imaging findings and clinical evaluation by a multidisciplinary team.

Tumor habitat analysisBaseline imaging before SRS, and follow up imaging every 3 months after SRS, up to 24 months

Automated process of tumor habitat analysis will include followings.

A. Methods: preprocessing includes registration, deep learning segmentation, and normalization of contrast-enhanced T1-weighted (CE-T1) and T2-weighted images. K-means clustering is applied to CE-T1-weighted and T2-weighted images to construct structural MRI habitats and to apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and cerebral blood volume (CBV) images to construct physiologic habitats.

B. Structural MRI habitats: enhancing tissue habitat, solid low-enhancing habitat, and nonviable tissue habitat

C. Physiologic MRI habitats: hypervascular cellular habitat, hypovascular cellular habitat, and nonviable tissue habitat..

D. Quantitative measurement of each habitat will be performed.

Imaging risk score for recurrenceBaseline imaging before SRS, and follow up imaging every 3 months after SRS, up to 24 months

To calculate the imaging risk score, three parameters are added together, namely the "solid component score," the "less enhancing component score," and the "blood flow score," using contrast-enhanced T1-weighted image(T1WI), T2-weighted image (T2WI), diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), and ASL.

The solid component risk score is assigned 0, 1, or 2 points, depending on whether the hypointense lesion on T2WI matches the enhancement in CE-T1WI.

The less-enhancing component risk score evaluates the degree of enhancement of the lesion to the dura. It assigns 0, 1, or 2 points depending on whether it is brighter, similar, or less enhanced.

The blood flow risk score assigns 0, 1, or 2 points based on the degree of blood flow of the lesion in ASL.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Asan Medical Center

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Seoul, Korea, Republic of

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