Radiotherapy is an important auxiliary treatment for glioma. Although comprehensive treatment of glioma has made some progress in recent years, the prognosis is still poor. How to improve the radiosensitivity of glioma is one of the hot spots in current glioma research. The changes of energy metabolism in gliomas promote malignant progression and resistance to chemoradiotherapy, but the exact mechanism is still unclear. This paper reviews the research progress of energy metabolism in gliomas and its relation with radiosensitivity of gliomas, in order to lay a foundation for further exploration of improving radiosensitivity of gliomas.

Objective To investigate the correlation between ADC value and glioma IDH-1/1p19q genotype. Methods The MRI features and molecular pathological results of 69 patients with pathologically confirmed diagnosis of WHO grade Ⅱ/Ⅲ glioma between March 2013 and December 2020 were retrospectively analyzed. The diagnostic performance of ADC values on glioma genotypes (IDH-1, 1p19q) was evaluated using the ROC curve of the subjects' working characteristics. Results The ADCmean, ADC_min, rADC_mean, and rADC_min in the IDH-1 mutation group were significantly higher than those in the IDH-1 wild group (P < 0.05, P < 0.01, P < 0.05, P < 0.01). The use of the rADC_min threshold (0.979×10³mm²/s) had the highest efficacy (AUC=0.770) for diagnosis of IDH-1 mutant and IDH-1 wild-type gliomas as well as sensitivity and specificity of 84.61% and 59.09%, respectively. Conclusion ADC can be used as an imaging biomarker for noninvasive prediction of IDH-1 mutant and wild-type Ⅱ /Ⅲ gliomas.