Fukui University

Study quantified cerebral blood flow using continuous arterial spin labeling

Published in Health Business Week, September 30th, 2005

Researchers have investigated multislice continuous arterial spin-labeled perfusion MRI in patients with chronic occlusive cerebrovascular disease.

Investigators in Japan conducted a study "to compare the use of multislice continuous arterial spin labeling (CASL) and CO₂ positron emission tomography (PET) to assess CBF in patients with chronic occlusive cerebrovascular disease for the validation of quantitative CASL perfusion in an altered hemodynamic state."

H. Kimura and colleagues of Fukui University explained, "Eleven patients with occlusive carotid artery disease were studied with CASL and conventional MRI. Cerebral blood flow (CBF)...

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