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Industry grant support
Siemens, GE, Guerbet
Consulting, service, or CDA agreements
Alexion, AstraZeneca, Bioclinica, BMS, Fibrogen, Galmed, Genzyme, Gilead, Fibrogen, Icon, Intercept, Isis, Janssen, NuSirt, Perspectum, Pfizer, Profil, Sanofi, Shire, Synageva, Tobira, Takeda, Virtual Scopics
Federal grant support
U01 DK061734, R01 DK106419, R01 DK088925, T32 EB005970, R01 DK088831
Disclosures
Acknowledgements
Slides provided by Perspectum
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What Should I Talk About? • Liver fat?
• Liver stiffness?
• Liver inflammation?
• Body composition?
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What Should I Talk About? • Liver fat?
• Liver stiffness?
• Liver inflammation
• Body composition
• Quantitative liver function
• Mitochondrial integrity
• Oxidative stress
• Clearance functions
• Macrophage activation
• Pancreatic beta cell mass
“That’s boring”
“Talk about this”
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Goals
What can MRI do to help the clinician
• Now
• In 5-10 years
• Pie in the Sky
• “Never”
Bridging the chasm between what is possible and what is wanted: some suggestions
Focus on NAFLD/NASH diagnosis, prognosis, monitoring
HCC screening and diagnosis not discussed
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Essential MRI Features
• Quantitative
• Accurate
• Repeatable
• Reproducible
• Robust
• Practical
• Tolerable
• Affordable
• Meaningful
• Profitable
• Available
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Available & Reproducible
1.5T
3T
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Now 8
0
kPa
3.23 kPa
50
0
%
PDFF 25.0%
LIF
LIF 2.7
350
0
s-1
R2* 40 -320 s-1
Next 5-10 Years
VAT 1.8 L SCAT 4.2 L MV 22 L
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Now 8
0
kPa
3.23 kPa
50
0
%
PDFF 25.0%
LIF
LIF 2.7
350
0
s-1
R2* 40 -320 s-1
Next 5-10 Years
VAT 1.8 L SCAT 4.2 L MV 22 L
One-stop shopping
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Now 8
0
kPa
3.23 kPa
50
0
%
PDFF 25.0%
LIF
LIF 2.7
350
0
s-1
R2* 40 -320 s-1
Next 5-10 Years
VAT 1.8 L SCAT 4.2 L MV 22 L
We See All Cells We See No Individual
Cells
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• Refinement
• Confounder correction
• Validation
• Standardization across manufacturers
• Abbreviation
• Increasing clinical use
• Automation
• Efficiency
• Registration
• Quantitative reporting
• Big data
Now Next 5-10 Years 8
0
kPa
3.23 kPa
50
0
%
PDFF 25.0%
LIF
LIF 2.7
350
0
s-1
R2* 40 -320 s-1
VAT 1.8 L SCAT 4.2 L MV 22 L
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• Macromolecule content
• Triglyceride composition
• Perfusion
• Oxygenation
• Temperature
Pie in the Sky Pie in the Sky “Never”
• Collagen content
• Fibrogenesis, fibrolysis
• Stellate cell activation
• Mitochondrial integrity
• Oxidative stress
• Immune activation
• Pancreatic beta cell mass
Targeted contrast agents not necessary
Targeted contrast agents necessary
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1992 Gadoteridol
Gd-HP-D03A ProHance® 1993
Gadodiamide Gd-DTPA-BMA
Omniscan®
1999 Gadoversetamide
Gd-DTPA-BMEA OptiMARK® 2004
Gadobenate Gd-BOPTA
MultiHance®
2010 Gadofosveset
Gd-MS-325 Ablavar®
1988 Gadopentetate
Gd-DTPA Magnevist®
2011 Gadobutrol Gd-D03A-butrol
Gadavist® 2013 Gadoterate
Gd-DOTA Dotarem®
1996 Ferumoxides
SPIO Feridex®
1997 Mangafodipir
Mn-DPDP Teslascan®
2008 Gadoxetate
Gd-EOB-DTPA Primovist®
Eovist®
11 MRI Contrast Agents Approved for Use in U.S.A.
General-use agents
Specific-use agents
2008 Gadoxetate
Gd-EOB-DTPA Primovist®
Eovist®
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2008 Gadoxetate
Gd-EOB-DTPA Primovist®
Eovist®
2008 Gadoxetate
Gd-EOB-DTPA Primovist®
Eovist®
1992 First publication on gadoxetate
One Specific MRI Contrast Agent In Use in U.S.A. 16 years, ~ US$ 200 million
Dose of Gx = US$ 135 Individual patients: ≤ 4 doses/year
Profit threshold ~ 1.5 million doses worldwide/year
Leading general-use MRI agent ~ 10 million doses/year
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All Radiology Contrast Agents – Global Sales
Contrast agents
1%
Therepeutic drugs 99%
Sales (worldwide)
Specific contrast
agents probably <0.1%
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Contrast Agent Development: A Tradeoff
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The Chasm
• PDFF
• Stiffness, other mech. properties
• R2, R2*
• Iron-corrected T1
• Body composition
• Blood flow
• Advanced diffusion
• Quantitative OATP/MRP function
• Macromolecule content
• Triglyceride composition
• Perfusion, oxygenation, temperature
• Collagen content
• Fibrogenesis
• Fibrolysis
• Stellate cell activation
• Mitochondrial integrity
• Oxidative stress
• Immune activation
• Pancreatic beta cell mass
What is Possible (Now or Eventually) What is Wanted
http://th01.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2010/130/a/6/Chasm_by_korbox.jpg
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Bridging the Chasm
http://m.c.lnkd.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/p/6/005/02c127/30c7db0.jpg
• Paradigm shift
• Multidisciplinary imaging biomarker consortium
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Current Paradigm
50
0
%
PDFF 25.0%
Chemical Shift MRI
8
0
kPa
Shear stiffness 3.23 kPa
MRE
LIF
Liver Inflammation and Fibrosis Score 2.7
Liver MultiScan
Steatosis Fibrosis
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Steatohepatitis_high_mag.jpg
Inflammation and Fibrosis
PDFF Shear stiffness Corrected T1
•MRI measurements no intrinsic meaning
•Must be translated into a histology score
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New Paradigm
50
0
%
PDFF 25.0%
Chemical Shift MRI
8
0
kPa
Shear stiffness 3.23 kPa
MRE
LIF
Liver Inflammation and Fibrosis Score 2.7
Liver MultiScan
[Triglyceride] within
MRI visible protons
PDFF Shear stiffness Corrected T1
Elastic and viscous components of shear stiffness
Water content within
MRI visible protons
Outcomes
•MRI measurements acquire intrinsic meaning
•Do not have to be translated into a histology score
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Multi-Disciplinary Imaging Biomarker Consortium
• Academia, industry, agencies
• Hepatology, pathology, radiology, molecular biology, physics, computer science and engineering
• Understand needs, capabilities, challenges, limitations
• Important but realistic goals
• Methods that don’t require specific contrast agents
• Identify suitable targets to develop specific agents with potentially sustainable economic markets
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Never Say Never Charles Holland Duell Commissioner of the United States Patent and Trademark Office 1898 -1901
Apocryphal quote: “Everything that can be invented has been invented."
Actual quote: “All previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the present century will witness. I almost wish that I might live my life over again to see the wonders which are at the threshold."