Relationship between ventricular morphology and aqueductal cerebrospinal fluid flow in healthy and communicating hydrocephalus

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 192-199

  Chiang, William W ^a   Takoudis, Christos G ^a   Lee, Sang H ^a   Weis Mcnulty, Annette ^a   Glick, Roberta ^b   Alperin, Noam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

(cerebral) ventricle; Anatomic and hydrodynamic parameters; Aqueductal stroke volume; Cerebrospinal fluid flow; Magnetic resonance velocity encoded cine phase contrast

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN AQUEDUCT; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNICATING HYDROCEPHALUS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; CEREBRAL AQUEDUCT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 67651089747     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e31819a640b     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Nitz WR, Bradley WG, Watanabe AS, et al. Flow dynamics of cerebrospinal fluid: assessment with phase-contrast velocity MR imaging performed with retrospective cardiac gating. Radiology. 1992;183:395-405.
2. Henry-Feugeas M, Idy-Peretti I, Bale'dent O, et al. Cerebrospinal fluid flow waveforms: MR analysis in chronic adult hydrocephalus. Invest Radiol. 2001;36:146-154.
3. Bale'dent O, Gondry-Jouet C, Meyer M, et al. Relationship between cerebrospinal fluid and blood dynamics in healthy volunteers and patients with communicating hydrocephalus. Invest Radiol. 2004;39:45-55.
4. Stoquart-ElSankari S, Bale'dent O, Gondry-Jouet C, et al. Aging effects on cerebral blood and cerebrospinal fluid flows. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2007;27:1563-1572.
5. Bradley WG, Scalzo D, Queralt J, et al. Normal-pressure hydrocephalus: evaluation with cerebrospinal fluid flow measurements at MR imaging. Radiology. 1996;198:523-529.
6. Dixon G, Friedman J, Luetmer P, et al. Use of cerebrospinal fluid flow rates measured by phase-contrast MR to predict outcome of ventriculoperitoneal shunting for idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus. Mayo Clin Proc. 2002;77:509-514.
7. Kahlon B, Annertz M, Ståhlberg F, et al. Is aqueductal stroke volume, measured with cine phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging scans useful in predicting outcome of shunt surgery in suspected normal pressure hydrocephalus? Neurosurgery. 2007;60:124-130.
8. Bateman GA, Levi CR, Schofield P, et al. The pathophysiology of the aqueductal stroke volume in normal pressure hydrocephalus: can co-morbidity with other forms of dementia be excluded? Neuroradiology. 2005;47:741-748.
9. Luetmer PH, Huston J, Friedman JA, et al. Measurement of cerebrospinal fluid flow at the cerebral aqueduct by use of phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging: technique validation and utility in diagnosing idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. Neurosurgery. 2002;50:534-543.
10. Bale'dent O, Henry-Feugeas M, Idy-Peretti I. Cerebrospinal fluid dynamics and relation with blood flow: a magnetic resonance study with semiautomated cerebrospinal fluid segmentation. Invest Radiol. 2001;36:368-377.
11. Wagshul ME, Chen JJ, Egnor MR, et al. Amplitude and phase of cerebrospinal fluid pulsations: experimental studies and review of the literature. J Neurosurg. 2006;104:810-819.
12. Alperin NJ, Lee SH, Loth F, et al. MR-intracranial pressure (ICP): a method to measure intracranial elastance and pressure noninvasively by means of MR imaging: baboon and human study. Radiology. 2000;217:877-885.
13. Alperin N, Lee SH. PUBS: pulsatility-based segmentation of lumens conducting nonsteady flow. Magn Reson Med. 2003;49:934-944.
14. Jamous M, Sood S, Kumar R, et al. Frontal and occipital horn width ratio for the evaluation of small and asymmetrical ventricles. Pediatr Neurosurg. 2003;39:17-21.
15. Smith SM. Fast robust automated brain extraction. Hum Brain Mapp. 2002; 17:143-155.
16. Zhang Y, Brady M, Smith S. Segmentation of brain MR images through a hidden Markov random field model and the expectation maximization algorithm. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2001;20:45-57.
17. Huang T, Chuang H, Chen M. Supratentorial cerebrospinal fluid production rate in healthy adults: quantification with two-dimensional cine phase-contrast MR imaging with high temporal and spatial resolution. Radiology. 2004;233:603-608.
18. duBoulay GH. Pulsatile movements in the CSF pathways. Br J Radiol. 1966;39:255-262.
19. Poncelet BP, Wedeen VJ, Weisskoff RM, et al. Brain parenchyma motion: measurement with cine echo-planar MR imaging. Radiology. 1992;185:645-651.
20. Reneman RS, Arts T, Hoeks AP. Wall shear stress-an important determinant of endothelial cell function and structure-in the arterial system in vivo. J Vasc Res. 2006;43:251-269.
21. Cebral JR, Castro MA, Putman CM, et al. Flow-area relationship in internal carotid and vertebral arteries. Physiol Meas. 2008;29:585-594.
22. Womersley JR. Method for the calculation of velocity, rate of flow and viscous drag in arteries when the pressure gradient is known. J Physiol. 1955;127:553-563.
23. Turskey GA, Yuan F, Katz DF. Fluid flow in circulation and tissues. In: Turskey GA, ed. Transport Phenomena in Biological Systems. 1st ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall; 2004.
24. Penn RD, Lee MC, Linninger AA, et al. Pressure gradients in the brain in an experimental model of hydrocephalus. J Neurosurg. 2005;102:1069-1075.
25. Howden L, Giddings D, Power H, et al. Three-dimensional cerebrospinal fluid flow within the human ventricular system. Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin. 2008;11:123-133.
26. Alperin N, Mazda M, Lichtor T, et al. From cerebrospinal fluid pulsation to noninvasive intracranial compliance and pressure measured by MRI flow studies. Curr Med Imag Rev. 2006;2:117-129.