Comparison of low and high grade glioma maps

Abstract

It is crucial to detect the locations of brain tumors for the diagnosis. The aim of this study was the generation and comparison of the high and low-grade probabilistic brain tumor maps to present the tumor observance frequencies in the brain tissue. T1-weighted, pre-operated data from 162 brain tumor patients are examined during the study. Although most of high-grade tumors are located around the superior and right lateral regions of sub-ventricular zone, low-grade gliomas are mostly observed in the posterior part of the sub-ventricular zone. Moreover, since all types of tumors are gathered close to the sub-ventricular zone, our results support the theory proposing that there is a relation between gliomas and sub-ventricular zone, which is the origin of glial cells.