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The present retrospective study aimed to investigate the diagnostic capacity of and design a diagnostic algorithm for dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced MRI (DSCE-MRI) and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (H-MRS) in grading low-grade glioma (LGG) and high-grade glioma (HGG). This retrospective study enrolled 57 patients, of which 14 had LGG and 43 had HGG, five had World Health Organization grade 1, nine had grade 2, 20 had grade 3 and 23 had grade 4 glioma. All subjects underwent a standard 3T MRI brain tumor protocol with conventional MRI (cMRI) and advanced techniques, including DSCE-MRI and H-MRS. The associations of grade categorization with parameters in tumor and peritumor regions in the DSCE-MRI were examined, including tumor relative cerebral blood volume (TrCBV) and peripheral relative (Pr)CBV, as well as Tr and Pr cerebral blood flow (CBF) and H-MRS, including the creatine (Cr) and N-acetyl aspartate (NAA) ratios of choline (Cho), i.e. the TCho/NAA, PCho/NAA, TCho/Cr and PCho/Cr metabolite ratios. The data were compared using the Mann-Whitney U-test, independent samples t-test, Chi-square test, Fisher's exact test and receiver operating characteristic curve analyses. Decision tree analysis established an algorithm based on cutoffs for specified significant parameters. The PrCBF had the highest performance in the preoperative prediction of histological glioma grading, followed by the TrCBV, PrCBF, TrCBV, PCho/NAA, PCho/Cr, TCho/NAA and TCho/Cr. An algorithm based on TrCBV, PrCBF and TCho/Cr had a diagnostic accuracy of 100% for LGG and 90.7% for HGG and a misclassification risk of 7%. The cutoffs (sensitivity and specificity) were 2.48 (86 and 100%) for TrCBV, 1.26 (83.7 and 100%) for PrCBF and 3.18 (69.8 and 78.6%) for TCho/Cr. In conclusion, the diagnostic algorithm using TrCBV, PrCBF and TCho/Cr values, which were obtained from DSCE-MRI and H-MRS, increased diagnostic accuracy to 100% for LGGs and 90.7% for HGGs compared to previous studies using conventional MRI. This non-invasive advanced MRI diagnostic algorithm is recommended for clinical application for constructing preoperative strategies and prognosis of patients with glioma.

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