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ArticlePolish journal of radiology2021

Arterial spin labeling in neonatal magnetic resonance imaging - first experience and new observations.

Monika Bekiesińska-Figatowska, Sylwia Szkudlińska-Pawlak, Piotr Kwaśniewicz, Agnieszka Duczkowska, Marcin Ring, Beata Iwanowska, Marcin Sawicki

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Article in Polish journal of radiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Monika Bekiesińska-FigatowskaInstitute of Mother and Child, Warsaw, Poland.
Sylwia Szkudlińska-PawlakInstitute of Mother and Child, Warsaw, Poland.
Piotr KwaśniewiczInstitute of Mother and Child, Warsaw, Poland.
Agnieszka DuczkowskaInstitute of Mother and Child, Warsaw, Poland.
Marcin RingInstitute of Mother and Child, Warsaw, Poland.
Beata IwanowskaInstitute of Mother and Child, Warsaw, Poland.
Marcin SawickiPomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland.
Polish Mother’s Memorial Hospital Research Institute · PL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeArterial spin labeling (ASL) is a noninvasive non-contrast technique of perfusion imaging that uses endogenous water from the blood as the perfusion tracer, with very scant data on its use in neonates. The authors present the added value of ASL in the examined babies in their own material and discuss it in the light of the existing literature. MATERIAL AND

methodsDuring the first 10 months after the purchase of a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner, 123 neonates were examined using it in an MR-compatible incubator, 117 of them had brain MRI, and in 104 ASL was incorporated in the routine protocol, which resulted in prolongation of the study time by approximately 4 minutes. 3D ASL sequence uses Pulsed Continuous Arterial Spin Labeling (PCASL; aka pseudo continuous) technique.

resultsThe quality of the cerebral blood flow (CBF) maps was good in all cases but 2 because all the babies were sedated. Apart from the knowledge about normal perfusion patterns in the preterm and term neonatal brains, the use of ASL sequence provided important additional information in 11 cases (10.8%): increased CBF correlating with electroencephalographic seizure localization in otherwise normal MRI (

conclusionsOur short experience but relatively large volume of material encourages the use of ASL in routine neonatal MRI as a useful and non-time-consuming tool providing additional important clinical information in a significant percentage of cases.

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arterial spin labeling (ASL)brainbrain deathcerebrovascular circulationmagnetic resonance imaging (MRI)neonate

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