ArticleJournal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism2024
Cerebral arterial stiffness is linked to white matter hyperintensities and perivascular spaces in older adults - A 4D flow MRI study.
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- Cerebral blood flow, autoregulation and vascular reactivity in normal pressure hydrocephalus: a systematic review.Fluids and barriers of the CNS · 2025Pooled it
- Imaging-validated correlates and implications of the pathophysiologic mechanisms of ageing-related cerebral large artery and small vessel diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Behavioral and brain functions : BBF · 2025Pooled it
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- Region-specific demographic determinants and hemispheric asymmetry of perivascular space burden in healthy adults: a quantitative 3T neuroimaging study.Neuroradiology · 2026Article
- Jointly Learned 3D Non-Cartesian Sampling With Wave Encoding and Reconstruction for Neurovascular Phase Contrast MRI.Magnetic resonance in medicine · 2026Article
- Relation between Cerebral Small Vessel Function at 7T MRI and Small Vessel Disease Burden in a General Aging Population.Cerebrovascular diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Repeatability and reproducibility of hemodynamic measurements by intracranial 4D Flow MRI: a multi‑vendor and multi‑software cross‑over comparison study.BMC medical imaging · 2025Article
- Arterial-optimized 4D-flow MRI for quantifying flow and pulsatility in venous sinuses and large cerebral veins.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Association Between Pulse Wave Velocity and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: A Scoping Review.Cureus · 2025Review
- Distinct spatiotemporal patterns of white matter hyperintensity progression.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Simultaneous Assessment of Arterial Pulsatility Across Multiple Segments of Cerebral Arteries Using Multiband Dual-VENC Phase-Contrast MRI.NMR in biomedicine · 2025Article
- Functional MRI signatures of autonomic physiology in aging.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Biological sex influences relationships between cerebral pulsatility and white matter hyperintensities in aging adults.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2025Article
- Functional MRI Signatures of Autonomic Physiology in Aging.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Intracranial pulse wave velocity using 4D flow MRI: method comparison and covariate analysis.Interface focus · 2025Article
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- Exploring the relationship of triglyceride to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and the triglyceride-glucose index with white matter hyperintensities in individuals with type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional analysis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
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Abstract
White matter hyperintensities (WMH), perivascular spaces (PVS) and lacunes are common MRI features of small vessel disease (SVD). However, no shared underlying pathological mechanism has been identified. We investigated whether SVD burden, in terms of WMH, PVS and lacune status, was related to changes in the cerebral arterial wall by applying global cerebral pulse wave velocity (gcPWV) measurements, a newly described marker of cerebral vascular stiffness. In a population-based cohort of 190 individuals, 66-85 years old, SVD features were estimated from T1-weighted and FLAIR images while gcPWV was estimated from 4D flow MRI data. Additionally, the gcPWV's stability to variations in field-of-view was analyzed. The gcPWV was 10.82 (3.94) m/s and displayed a significant correlation to WMH and white matter PVS volume (r = 0.29, p < 0.001; r = 0.21, p = 0.004 respectively from nonparametric tests) that persisted after adjusting for age, blood pressure variables, body mass index, ApoB/A1 ratio, smoking as well as cerebral pulsatility index, a previously suggested early marker of SVD. The gcPWV displayed satisfactory stability to field-of-view variations. Our results suggest that SVD is accompanied by changes in the cerebral arterial wall that can be captured by considering the velocity of the pulse wave transmission through the cerebral arterial network.
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