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ArticleJournal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism2017

MRI of cerebral micro-vascular flow patterns: A multi-direction diffusion-weighted ASL approach.

J A Wells, D L Thomas, T Saga, J Kershaw, I Aoki

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Article in Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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  6. Recent Advances in Parameter Inference for Diffusion MRI Signal Models.Magnetic resonance in medical sciences : MRMS : an official journal of Japan Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine · 2022
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  13. Consensus statement on current and emerging methods for the diagnosis and evaluation of cerebrovascular disease.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2018
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  14. Advances in arterial spin labelling MRI methods for measuring perfusion and collateral flow.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2018
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5 authors.

J A Wells1 National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS), National Institute for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Chiba, Japan.
D L Thomas3 Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK.
T Saga1 National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS), National Institute for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Chiba, Japan.
J Kershaw1 National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS), National Institute for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Chiba, Japan.
I Aoki1 National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS), National Institute for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Chiba, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The study and clinical assessment of brain disease is currently hindered by a lack of non-invasive methods for the detailed and accurate evaluation of cerebral vascular pathology. Angiography can detect aberrant flow in larger feeding arteries/arterioles but cannot resolve the micro-vascular network. Small vessels are a key site of vascular pathology that can lead to haemorrhage and infarction, which may in turn trigger or exacerbate neurodegenerative processes. In this study, we describe a method to investigate microvascular flow anisotropy using a hybrid arterial spin labelling and multi-direction diffusion-weighted MRI sequence. We present evidence that the technique is sensitive to the mean/predominant direction of microvascular flow in localised regions of the rat cortex. The data provide proof of principle for a novel and non-invasive imaging tool to investigate cerebral micro-vascular flow patterns in healthy and disease states.

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AnimalsCerebral CortexCerebrovascular CirculationMagnetic Resonance AngiographyMaleMicrovesselsRats, Sprague-DawleySensitivity and SpecificitySpin LabelsSpin LabelsArterial spin labellingdiffusion imagingmagnetic resonance imagingmicro-vascularperfusion

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PMID27461904
PMCPMC5464702

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