Delayed perfusion phenomenon in a rat stroke model at 1.5 T MR: An imaging sign parallel to spontaneous reperfusion and ischemic penumbra?

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 70-78

  Chen, Feng ^a,b   Suzuki, Yasuhiro ^c,d   Nagai, Nobuo ^c   Sun, Xihe ^a,e   Coudyzer, Walter ^a   Yu, Jie ^a   Marchal, Guy ^a   Ni, Yicheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e WEIFANG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contrast enhancement; Experimental; Ischemia; Magnetic resonance imaging; Rats; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEUROLOGY;

DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING (DWI); NEUROLOGICAL DEFICIT SCORE (NDS); PHOTOTHROMBOTIC OCCLUSION; RATS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

TRIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MICROANGIOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPERFUSION; STAINING; STROKE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPERFUSION INJURY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845915297     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2006.08.019     Document Type: Article

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