The alphabet soup of perfusion CT and MR imaging: Terminology revisited and clarified in five questions

Neuroradiology

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 907-918

  Leiva Salinas, Carlos ^a,b,c   Provenzale, James M ^d,e   Kudo, Kohsuke ^f   Sasaki, Makoto ^f   Wintermark, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CT; MRI; Perfusion; Stroke; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL INPUT FUNCTION; ARTICLE; BOLUS ARRIVAL TIME; BOLUS END TIME; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECONVOLUTION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FIRST MOMENT OF TRANSIT; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; HEMODYNAMICS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MAXIMAL SLOPE; MEAN CAPILLARY NETWORK TRANSIT TIME; PERFUSION COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; TIME TO MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION;

BLOOD VOLUME; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; STROKE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84866042568     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: 14321920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-012-1028-6     Document Type: Article

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