Optimal perfusion computed tomographic thresholds for ischemic core and penumbra are not time dependent in the clinically relevant time window

Stroke

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1355-1362

  Qiao, Yujie ^a   Zhu, Guangming ^a,c   Patrie, James ^a   Xin, Wenjun ^a   Michel, Patrik ^b   Eskandari, Ashraf ^b   Jovin, Tudor ^d   Wintermark, Max ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Perfusion imaging; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ISCHEMIC CORE; ISCHEMIC PENUMBRA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERFUSION IMAGING; STROKE;

AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTRAST MEDIA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84899928422     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.113.003362     Document Type: Article

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