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Differentiation between solitary brain metastasis and high-grade glioma by diffusion tensor imaging

Department of Radiology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, 6-20-2, Shinkawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8611, Japan

We tested our hypothesis that fractional anisotropy (FA) maps of diffusion tensor imaging could be used to differentiate between a solitary brain metastasis and a high-grade glioma. In seven patients with a solitary metastasis and seven patients with a high-grade glioma, FA values of enhancing and non-enhancing parts of the tumour were compared. Additionally, we visually assessed FA maps. No significant difference in the FA values of either the enhancing or non-enhancing part was found between the two groups. In the visual assessment, displacement of subcortical white-matter fibres was found in five of the seven metastasis patients, but in only one glioma patient. Additionally, discrimination between tumour and oedema was possible in three of the seven metastasis patients, but not in any glioma patient. Although FA values are not helpful in differentiating between the two groups, visual differences in FA values can allow the differentiation. Displacement of white-matter fibres is another finding suggestive of metastasis.

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