Ultrasound Perfusion Imaging: Determination of Thresholds for the Identification of Critically Disturbed Perfusion in Acute Ischemic Stroke-A Pilot Study

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 851-856

  Meyer Wiethe, Karsten ^a   Cangür, Hakan ^a   Schindler, Angela ^a   Koch, Christoph ^a   Seidel, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral perfusion; Stroke; Transcranial sonography; Ultrasound contrast agent

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; NEUROLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT;

CEREBRAL PERFUSION; STROKES; TRANSCRANIAL SONOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENTS;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; CAROTID ARTERIES; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MICROBUBBLES; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PILOT PROJECTS; ROC CURVE; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 34249279472     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2006.12.006     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Bos L.J., Piek J.J., and Spaan J.A.E. Effects of shadowing on the time-intensity curves in contrast echocardiography: A phantom study. Ultrasound Med Biol 22 (1996) 217-227
2. della Martina A., Meyer-Wiethe K., Allémann E., and Seidel G. Ultrasound contrast agents for brain perfusion imaging and ischemic stroke therapy. J Neuroimaging 15 (2005) 217-232
3. Demchuk A.M., Burgin W.S., Christou I., Felberg R.A., Barber P.A., Hill M.D., et al. Thrombolysis in brain ischemia (TIBI) transcranial Doppler flow grades predict clinical severity, early recovery and mortality in patients treated with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator. Stroke 32 (2001) 89-93
4. Eyding J., Krogias C., Schollhammer M., Eyding D., Wilkening W., Meves S., et al. Contrast-enhanced ultrasonic parametric perfusion imaging detects dysfunctional tissue at risk in acute MCA stroke. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 26 (2006) 576-582
5. Eyding J., Krogias C., Wilkening W., and Postert T. Detection of cerebral perfusion abnormalities in acute stroke using phase inversion harmonic imaging (PIHI): Preliminary results. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 75 (2004) 926-929
6. Faraggi D. Adjusting receiver operating characteristic curves and related indices for covariates. The Statistician 52 (2003) 179-192
7. Federlein J., Postert T., Meves S., Weber S., Przuntek H., and Büttner T. Ultrasonic evaluation of pathological brain perfusion in acute stroke using second harmonic imaging. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 69 (2000) 616-622
8. Grandin C.B. Assessment of brain perfusion with MRI: Methodology and application to acute stroke. Neuroradiology 45 (2003) 755-766
9. Harrer J.U., Möller-Hartmann W., Oertel M.F., and Klötzsch C. Perfusion imaging of high-grade gliomas: A comparison between contrast harmonic and magnetic resonance imaging. Technical note. J Neurosurg 101 (2004) 700-703
10. Krogias C., Postert T., Meves S., Wilkening W., Przuntek H., and Eyding J. Semiquantitative analysis of ultrasonic cerebral perfusion imaging. Ultrasound Med Biol 31 (2005) 1007-1012
11. Meairs S., Daffertshofer M., Neff W., Eschenfelder C., and Hennerici M. Pulse-inversion contrast harmonic imaging: Ultrasonographic assessment of cerebral perfusion. Lancet 355 (2000) 550-551
12. Meves S.H., Wilkening W., Thies T., Eyding J., Hölscher T., Finger M., et al. Comparison between echo contrast agent-specific imaging modes and perfusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging for the assessment of brain perfusion. Stroke 33 (2002) 2433-2437
13. Meyer K., Wiesmann M., Albers T., and Seidel G. Harmonic imaging in acute stroke: Detection of a cerebral perfusion deficit with ultrasound and perfusion MRI. J Neuroimaging 13 (2003) 166-168
14. Montaldo G., Tanter M., and Fink M. Real-time inverse filter focusing through iterative time reversal. J Acoust Soc Am 115 (2004) 768-775
15. Nasel C., Kronsteiner N., Schindler E., Kreuzer S., and Gentzsch S. Standardized time-to-peak in ischemic and regular cerebral tissue measured with perfusion MR imaging. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 25 (2004) 945-950
16. Postert T., Muhs A., Meves S., Federlein J., Przuntek H., and Büttner T. Transient response harmonic imaging: An ultrasound technique related to brain perfusion. Stroke 29 (1998) 1901-1907
17. Seidel G., Albers T., Meyer K., and Wiesmann M. Perfusion harmonic imaging in acute middle cerebral artery infarction. Ultrasound Med Biol 29 (2003) 1245-1251
18. Seidel G., Algermissen C., Christoph A., Claassen L., Vidal-Langwasser M., and Katzer T. Harmonic imaging of the human brain: Visualization of brain perfusion with ultrasound. Stroke 31 (2000) 151-154
19. Seidel G., Meyer-Wiethe K., Berdien G., Hollstein D., Toth D., and Aach T. Ultrasound perfusion imaging in acute middle cerebral artery infarction predicts outcome. Stroke 35 (2004) 1107-1111
20. Sobesky J., Zaro Weber O., Lehnhardt F.G., Hesselmann V., Thiel A., Dohmen C., et al. Which time-to-peak threshold best identifies penumbral flow?. A comparison of perfusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography in acute ischemic stroke. Stroke 35 (2004) 2843-2847
21. Wiesmann M., Meyer K., Albers T., and Seidel G. Parametric perfusion imaging with contrast-enhanced ultrasound in acute ischemic stroke. Stroke 35 (2004) 508-513
22. Wiesmann M., and Seidel G. Ultrasound perfusion imaging of the human brain. Stroke 31 (2000) 2421-2425