title: A physiologic model of capillary-tissue exchange for dynamic contrast-enhanced imaging of tumor microcirculation.
abstract: We present a multiple compartment, mammillary distributed-parameter model for capillary-tissue exchange, which can be implemented with dynamic contrast-enhanced imaging to study kinetic heterogeneity in tumors. The proposed n-compartment model consists of a vascular distributed-parameter compartment in direct exchange with a number (n - 1) of interstitial compartments. It is applied to a prostate tumor case study to illustrate the possible co-existence of two kinetically distinct compartments in the tumor, and the estimation of useful physiological parameters (such as perfusion, mean transit time, fractional volumes, and transfer and rate constants) associated with tissue microcirculation. The present model exhibits the convenient property of a separable impulse residue response function in time domain, which can be used to provide further insights and understanding on the physiological basis of tissue enhancement parameters commonly used for correlation studies with tumor histological diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798. etskoh@ntu.edu.sg
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Koh
authors.forename: L H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Cheong
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.forename: Y C
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Soh
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000098:blood supply / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D002196:Capillaries / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003287:Contrast Media / Q000493:pharmacokinetics*; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods; D007700:Kinetics; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000098:blood supply / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014018:Tissue Distribution; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media