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ArticleNMR in biomedicine2025

High-resolution perfusion imaging in rodents using pCASL at 9.4 T.

Sara Pires Monteiro, Lydiane Hirschler, Emmanuel L Barbier, Patricia Figueiredo, Noam Shemesh

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Article in NMR in biomedicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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  1. Preclinical in-vivo cerebrovascular imaging in rodent models: Methods and applications in Alzheimer's disease.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2026
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5 authors.

Sara Pires MonteiroChampalimaud Research, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.
Lydiane HirschlerC.J. Gorter MRI Center, Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-2379-0861
Emmanuel L BarbierUniv. Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, U1216, Grenoble, France.ORCID 0000-0002-4952-1240
Patricia FigueiredoInstitute for Systems and Robotics - Lisboa and Department of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Noam ShemeshChampalimaud Research, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-6681-5876

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European Regional Development FundFundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adequate perfusion is critical for maintaining normal brain function and aberrations thereof are hallmarks of many diseases. Pseudo-Continuous Arterial Spin Labeling (pCASL) MRI enables noninvasive quantitative perfusion mapping without contrast agent injection and with a higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) than alternative methods. Despite its great potential, pCASL remains challenging, unstable, and relatively low-resolution in rodents - especially in mice - thereby limiting the investigation of perfusion properties in many transgenic or other relevant rodent models of disease. Here, we address this gap by developing a novel experimental setup for high-resolution pCASL imaging in mice and combining it with the enhanced SNR of cryogenic probes. We show that our new experimental setup allows for optimal positioning of the carotids within the cryogenic coil, rendering labeling reproducible. With the proposed methodology, we managed to increase the spatial resolution of pCASL perfusion images by a factor of 15 in mice; a factor of 6 in rats is gained compared to the state of the art just by virtue of the cryogenic coil. We also show that the improved pCASL perfusion imaging allows much better delineation of specific brain areas, both in healthy animals as well as in rat and mouse models of stroke. Our results bode well for future high-definition pCASL perfusion imaging in rodents.

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Spin LabelsAnimalsBrainCerebrovascular CirculationMagnetic Resonance AngiographyMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLPerfusion ImagingRatsSignal-To-Noise RatioSpin LabelsCBFhigh‐resolutionpCASLperfusionpre‐clinical MRI

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