Affiliation:
1. Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
2. FESB, University of Split, 21000 Split, Croatia
Abstract
The effectiveness of surgical resection of meningioma, the most common primary CNS tumor, depends on the capability to intraoperatively discriminate between the meningioma tissue and the surrounding brain white and gray matter tissues. Aiming to find a potential biomarker based on tissue permittivity, dielectric spectroscopy of meningioma, white matter, and gray matter ex vivo tissues was performed using the open-ended coaxial probe method in the microwave frequency range from 0.5 to 18 GHz. The averages and the 95% confidence intervals of the measured permittivity for each tissue were compared. The results showed the absence of overlap between the 95% confidence intervals for meningioma tissue and for brain white and gray matter, indicating a significant difference in average permittivity (p ≤ 0.05) throughout almost the entire measured frequency range, with the most pronounced contrast found between 2 GHz and 5 GHz. The discovered contrast is relevant as a potential physical biomarker to discriminate meningioma tissue from the surrounding brain tissues by means of permittivity measurement, e.g., for intraoperative meningioma margin assessment. The permittivity models for each tissue, developed in this study as its byproducts, will allow more accurate electromagnetic modeling of brain tumor and healthy tissues, facilitating the development of new microwave-based medical devices and tools.
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