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Wirestam R, Lundberg A, Chakwizira A, van Westen D, Knutsson L, Lind E. Test-retest analysis of cerebral oxygen extraction estimates in healthy volunteers: comparison of methods based on quantitative susceptibility mapping and dynamic susceptibility contrast magnetic resonance imaging. Heliyon 2022; 8:e12364. [PMID: 36590544 PMCID: PMC9801129 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e12364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2022] [Revised: 10/18/2022] [Accepted: 12/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Estimation of the oxygen extraction fraction (OEF) by quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is promising but requires systematic evaluation. Extraction of OEF-related information from the tissue residue function in dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI (DSC-MRI) has also been proposed. In this study, whole-brain OEF repeatability was investigated, as well as the relationships between QSM-based OEF and DSC-MRI-based parameters, i.e., mean transit time (MTT) and an oxygen extraction index, referred to as apparent OEF (AOEF). Method Test-retest data were obtained from 20 healthy volunteers at 3 T. QSM maps were reconstructed from 3D gradient-echo MRI phase data, using morphology-enabled dipole inversion. DSC-MRI was accomplished using gradient-echo MRI at a temporal resolution of 1.24 s. Results The whole-brain QSM-based OEF was (40.4±4.8) % and, in combination with a previously published cerebral blood flow (CBF) estimate, this corresponds to a cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen level of CMRO2 = 3.36 ml O2/min/100 g. The intra-class correlation coefficient [ICC(2,1)] for OEF test-retest data was 0.73. The MTT-versus-OEF and AOEF-versus-OEF relationships showed correlation coefficients of 0.61 (p = 0.004) and 0.52 (p = 0.019), respectively. Discussion QSM-based OEF showed a convincing absolute level and good test-retest results in terms of the ICC. Moderate to good correlations between QSM-based OEF and DSC-MRI-based parameters were observed. The present results constitute an indicator of the level of robustness that can be achieved without applying extraordinary resources in terms of MRI equipment, imaging protocol, QSM reconstruction, and OEF analysis.
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- Ronnie Wirestam
- Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Image and Function, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States
- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Dalby RB, Eskildsen SF, Videbech P, Rosenberg R, Østergaard L. Cerebral hemodynamics and capillary dysfunction in late-onset major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2021; 317:111383. [PMID: 34508953 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2021.111383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2021] [Revised: 08/22/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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In major depressive disorder (MDD), perfusion changes in cortico-limbic pathways are interpreted as altered neuronal activity, but they could also signify changes in neurovascular coupling due to altered capillary function. To examine capillary function in late-onset MDD, 22 patients and 22 age- and gender-matched controls underwent perfusion MRI. We measured normalized cerebral blood flow (nCBF), cerebral blood volume (nCBV), and relative transit-time heterogeneity (RTH). Resulting brain oxygenation was estimated in terms of oxygen tension and normalized metabolic rate of oxygen (nCMRO2). Patients revealed signs of capillary dysfunction (elevated RTH) in the anterior prefrontal cortex and ventral anterior cingulate cortex bilaterally and in the left insulate cortex compared to controls, bilateral hypometabolism (parallel reductions of nCBV, nCBF, and CMRO2) but preserved capillary function in the subthalamic nucleus and globus pallidus bilaterally, and hyperactivity with preserved capillary function (increased nCBF) in the cerebellum and brainstem. Our data support that perfusion changes in deep nuclei and cerebellum reflect abnormally low and high activity, respectively, in MDD patients, but suggest that microvascular pathology affects neurovascular coupling in ventral circuits. We speculate that microvascular pathology is important for our understanding of etiology of late-onset MDD as well as infererences about resulting brain activity changes.
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- Rikke B Dalby
- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN) / MINDLab, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Centre for Psychiatric Research, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov, Denmark; Department of Radiology, Section of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
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- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN) / MINDLab, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center for Neuropsychiatric Depression Research, Mental Health Center Glostrup, Glostrup, Denmark
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- Centre for Psychiatric Research, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov, Denmark; Centre of Psychiatry Amager, Mental Health Services in the Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN) / MINDLab, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Neuroradiology Research Unit, Department of Radiology, Section of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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Gerstner ER, Emblem KE, Yen YF, Dietrich J, Jordan JT, Catana C, Wenchin KL, Hooker JM, Duda DG, Rosen BR, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Jain RK, Batchelor TT. Vascular dysfunction promotes regional hypoxia after bevacizumab therapy in recurrent glioblastoma patients. Neurooncol Adv 2020; 2:vdaa157. [PMID: 33392506 PMCID: PMC7764510 DOI: 10.1093/noajnl/vdaa157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Hypoxia is a driver of treatment resistance in glioblastoma. Antiangiogenic agents may transiently normalize blood vessels and decrease hypoxia before excessive pruning of vessels increases hypoxia. The time window of normalization is dose and time dependent. We sought to determine how VEGF blockade with bevacizumab modulates tumor vasculature and the impact that those vascular changes have on hypoxia in recurrent glioblastoma patients. Methods We measured tumor volume, vascular permeability (Ktrans), perfusion parameters (cerebral blood flow/volume, vessel caliber, and mean transit time), and regions of hypoxia in patients with recurrent glioblastoma before and after treatment with bevacizumab alone or with lomustine using [18F]FMISO PET-MRI. We also examined serial changes in plasma biomarkers of angiogenesis and inflammation. Results Eleven patients were studied. The magnitude of global tumor hypoxia was variable across these 11 patients prior to treatment and it did not significantly change after bevacizumab. The hypoxic regions had an inefficient vasculature characterized by elevated cerebral blood flow/volume and increased vessel caliber. In a subset of patients, there were tumor subregions with decreased mean transit times and a decrease in hypoxia, suggesting heterogeneous improvement in vascular efficiency. Bevacizumab significantly changed known pharmacodynamic biomarkers such as plasma VEGF and PlGF. Conclusions The vascular signature in hypoxic tumor regions indicates a disorganized vasculature which, in most tumors, does not significantly change after bevacizumab treatment. While some tumor regions showed improved vascular efficiency following treatment, bevacizumab did not globally alter hypoxia or normalize tumor vasculature in glioblastoma.
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- Elizabeth R Gerstner
- Stephen E. and Catherine Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic Physics, Oslo University, Oslo, Norway
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Stephen E. and Catherine Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Stephen E. and Catherine Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Østergaard L. Blood flow, capillary transit times, and tissue oxygenation: the centennial of capillary recruitment. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2020; 129:1413-1421. [PMID: 33031017 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00537.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The transport of oxygen between blood and tissue is limited by blood's capillary transit time, understood as the time available for diffusion exchange before blood returns to the heart. If all capillaries contribute equally to tissue oxygenation at all times, this physical limitation would render vasodilation and increased blood flow insufficient means to meet increased metabolic demands in the heart, muscle, and other organs. In 1920, Danish physiologist August Krogh was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his mathematical and quantitative, experimental demonstration of a solution to this conceptual problem: capillary recruitment, the active opening of previously closed capillaries to meet metabolic demands. Today, capillary recruitment is still mentioned in textbooks. When we suspect symptoms might represent hypoxia of a vascular origin, however, we search for relevant, flow-limiting conditions in our patients and rarely ascribe hypoxia or hypoxemia to short capillary transit times. This review describes how natural changes in capillary transit-time heterogeneity (CTH) and capillary hematocrit (HCT) across open capillaries during blood flow increases can account for a match of oxygen availability to metabolic demands in normal tissue. CTH and HCT depend on a number of factors: on blood properties, including plasma viscosity, the number, size, and deformability of blood cells, and blood cell interactions with capillary endothelium; on anatomical factors including glycocalyx, endothelial cells, basement membrane, and pericytes that affect the capillary diameter; and on any external compression. The review describes how risk factor- and disease-related changes in CTH and HCT interfere with flow-metabolism coupling and tissue oxygenation and discusses whether such capillary dysfunction contributes to vascular disease pathology.
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- Leif Østergaard
- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Neuroradiology Research Unit, Section of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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Nielsen RB, Parbo P, Ismail R, Dalby R, Tietze A, Brændgaard H, Gottrup H, Brooks DJ, Østergaard L, Eskildsen SF. Impaired perfusion and capillary dysfunction in prodromal Alzheimer's disease. ALZHEIMER'S & DEMENTIA (AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS) 2020; 12:e12032. [PMID: 32490139 PMCID: PMC7241262 DOI: 10.1002/dad2.12032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2019] [Revised: 02/21/2020] [Accepted: 02/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
INTRODUCTION Cardiovascular disease increases the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD), and growing evidence suggests an involvement of cerebrovascular pathology in AD. Capillary dysfunction, a condition in which capillary flow disturbances rather than arterial blood supply limit brain oxygen extraction, could represent an overlooked vascular contributor to neurodegeneration. We examined whether cortical capillary transit-time heterogeneity (CTH), an index of capillary dysfunction, is elevated in amyloid-positive patients with mild cognitive impairment (prodromal AD [pAD]). METHODS We performed structural and perfusion weighted MRI in 22 pAD patients and 21 healthy controls. RESULTS We found hypoperfusion, reduced blood volume, and elevated CTH in the parietal and frontal cortices of pAD-patients compared to controls, while only the precuneus showed focal cortical atrophy. DISCUSSION We propose that microvascular flow disturbances antedate cortical atrophy and may limit local tissue oxygenation in pAD. We speculate that capillary dysfunction contributes to the development of neurodegeneration in AD.
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- Rune B. Nielsen
- Center of Functionally Integrative NeuroscienceAarhus UniversityAarhusDenmark
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET CentreAarhus University HospitalAarhusDenmark
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET CentreAarhus University HospitalAarhusDenmark
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- Center of Functionally Integrative NeuroscienceAarhus UniversityAarhusDenmark
- Department of NeuroradiologyAarhus University HospitalAarhusDenmark
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- Charité, UniversitätsmedizinInstitute of NeuroradiologyBerlinGermany
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- Dementia ClinicDepartment of NeurologyAarhus University HospitalAarhusDenmark
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- Dementia ClinicDepartment of NeurologyAarhus University HospitalAarhusDenmark
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET CentreAarhus University HospitalAarhusDenmark
- Division of NeuroscienceDepartment of MedicineImperial College LondonLondonUK
- Division of NeuroscienceNewcastle UniversityNewcastle upon TyneUK
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- Center of Functionally Integrative NeuroscienceAarhus UniversityAarhusDenmark
- Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET CentreAarhus University HospitalAarhusDenmark
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- Center of Functionally Integrative NeuroscienceAarhus UniversityAarhusDenmark
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Shazeeb MS, King RM, Brooks OW, Puri AS, Henninger N, Boltze J, Gounis MJ. Infarct Evolution in a Large Animal Model of Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion. Transl Stroke Res 2019; 11:468-480. [PMID: 31478129 DOI: 10.1007/s12975-019-00732-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2019] [Revised: 08/19/2019] [Accepted: 08/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
Abstract
Mechanical thrombectomy for the treatment of ischemic stroke shows high rates of recanalization; however, some patients still have a poor clinical outcome. A proposed reason for this relates to the fact that the ischemic infarct growth differs significantly between patients. While some patients demonstrate rapid evolution of their infarct core (fast evolvers), others have substantial potentially salvageable penumbral tissue even hours after initial vessel occlusion (slow evolvers). We show that the dog middle cerebral artery occlusion model recapitulates this key aspect of human stroke rendering it a highly desirable model to develop novel multimodal treatments to improve clinical outcomes. Moreover, this model is well suited to develop novel image analysis techniques that allow for improved lesion evolution prediction; we provide proof-of-concept that MRI perfusion-based time-to-peak maps can be utilized to predict the rate of infarct growth as validated by apparent diffusion coefficient-derived lesion maps allowing reliable classification of dogs into fast versus slow evolvers enabling more robust study design for interventional research.
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- Mohammed Salman Shazeeb
- New England Center for Stroke Research, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA.
- Image Processing and Analysis Core, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA.
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- New England Center for Stroke Research, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, 01609, USA
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- New England Center for Stroke Research, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA
- St. George's University School of Medicine, St. George's, West Indies, Grenada
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- New England Center for Stroke Research, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
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- New England Center for Stroke Research, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA
- Image Processing and Analysis Core, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA
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Østergaard L, Jørgensen MB, Knudsen GM. Low on energy? An energy supply-demand perspective on stress and depression. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2018; 94:248-270. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2018] [Revised: 07/09/2018] [Accepted: 08/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Engedal TS, Hjort N, Hougaard KD, Simonsen CZ, Andersen G, Mikkelsen IK, Boldsen JK, Eskildsen SF, Hansen MB, Angleys H, Jespersen SN, Pedraza S, Cho TH, Serena J, Siemonsen S, Thomalla G, Nighoghossian N, Fiehler J, Mouridsen K, Østergaard L. Transit time homogenization in ischemic stroke - A novel biomarker of penumbral microvascular failure? J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2018; 38:2006-2020. [PMID: 28758524 PMCID: PMC6259320 DOI: 10.1177/0271678x17721666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
Abstract
Cerebral ischemia causes widespread capillary no-flow in animal studies. The extent of microvascular impairment in human stroke, however, is unclear. We examined how acute intra-voxel transit time characteristics and subsequent recanalization affect tissue outcome on follow-up MRI in a historic cohort of 126 acute ischemic stroke patients. Based on perfusion-weighted MRI data, we characterized voxel-wise transit times in terms of their mean transit time (MTT), standard deviation (capillary transit time heterogeneity - CTH), and the CTH:MTT ratio (relative transit time heterogeneity), which is expected to remain constant during changes in perfusion pressure in a microvasculature consisting of passive, compliant vessels. To aid data interpretation, we also developed a computational model that relates graded microvascular failure to changes in these parameters. In perfusion-diffusion mismatch tissue, prolonged mean transit time (>5 seconds) and very low cerebral blood flow (≤6 mL/100 mL/min) was associated with high risk of infarction, largely independent of recanalization status. In the remaining mismatch region, low relative transit time heterogeneity predicted subsequent infarction if recanalization was not achieved. Our model suggested that transit time homogenization represents capillary no-flow. Consistent with this notion, low relative transit time heterogeneity values were associated with lower cerebral blood volume. We speculate that low RTH may represent a novel biomarker of penumbral microvascular failure.
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- Thorbjørn S Engedal
- 1 Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus C, Denmark.,2 Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Nørrebrogade 44, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- 3 Department of Neurology Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- 3 Department of Neurology Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- 3 Department of Neurology Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- 1 Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- 1 Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- 1 Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- 1 Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- 1 Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- 1 Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus C, Denmark.,4 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- 6 Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- 7 University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- 7 University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- 1 Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- 1 Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus C, Denmark.,2 Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Nørrebrogade 44, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Quarles CC, Bell LC, Stokes AM. Imaging vascular and hemodynamic features of the brain using dynamic susceptibility contrast and dynamic contrast enhanced MRI. Neuroimage 2018; 187:32-55. [PMID: 29729392 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2017] [Revised: 04/27/2018] [Accepted: 04/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
In the context of neurologic disorders, dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) and dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MRI provide valuable insights into cerebral vascular function, integrity, and architecture. Even after two decades of use, these modalities continue to evolve as their biophysical and kinetic basis is better understood, with improvements in pulse sequences and accelerated imaging techniques and through application of more robust and automated data analysis strategies. Here, we systematically review each of these elements, with a focus on how their integration improves kinetic parameter accuracy and the development of new hemodynamic biomarkers that provide sub-voxel sensitivity (e.g., capillary transit time and flow heterogeneity). Regarding contrast mechanisms, we discuss the dipole-dipole interactions and susceptibility effects that give rise to simultaneous T1, T2 and T2∗ relaxation effects, including their quantification, influence on pulse sequence parameter optimization, and use in methods such as vessel size and vessel architectural imaging. The application of technologic advancements, such as parallel imaging, simultaneous multi-slice, undersampled k-space acquisitions, and sliding window strategies, enables improved spatial and/or temporal resolution of DSC and DCE acquisitions. Such acceleration techniques have also enabled the implementation of, clinically feasible, simultaneous multi-echo spin- and gradient echo acquisitions, providing more comprehensive and quantitative interrogation of T1, T2 and T2∗ changes. Characterizing these relaxation rate changes through different post-processing options allows for the quantification of hemodynamics and vascular permeability. The application of different biophysical models provides insight into traditional hemodynamic parameters (e.g., cerebral blood volume) and more advanced parameters (e.g., capillary transit time heterogeneity). We provide insight into the appropriate selection of biophysical models and the necessary post-processing steps to ensure reliable measurements while minimizing potential sources of error. We show representative examples of advanced DSC- and DCE-MRI methods applied to pathologic conditions affecting the cerebral microcirculation, including brain tumors, stroke, aging, and multiple sclerosis. The maturation and standardization of conventional DSC- and DCE-MRI techniques has enabled their increased integration into clinical practice and use in clinical trials, which has, in turn, spurred renewed interest in their technological and biophysical development, paving the way towards a more comprehensive assessment of cerebral hemodynamics.
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- C Chad Quarles
- Division of Neuro imaging Research, Barrow Neurological Institute, 350 W. Thomas Rd, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
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- Division of Neuro imaging Research, Barrow Neurological Institute, 350 W. Thomas Rd, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- Division of Neuro imaging Research, Barrow Neurological Institute, 350 W. Thomas Rd, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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Yan N, Zheng Y, Yang C. Functional and morphological effects of diazepam and midazolam on tumor vasculature in the 9L gliosarcoma brain tumor model using dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI: a comparative study. DRUG DESIGN DEVELOPMENT AND THERAPY 2017; 11:2931-2936. [PMID: 29042753 PMCID: PMC5634367 DOI: 10.2147/dddt.s143838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
Abstract
Antiangiogenic therapy attenuates tumor growth by reducing vascularization. Diazepam (DZP) and midazolam (MZL) have antiangiogenic properties in human umbilical vein endothelial cells. Thus, we investigated the antiangiogenic activity of DZP and MZL in the rat 9L gliosarcoma brain tumor model. The effect on tumor vasculature was evaluated using dynamic susceptibility contrast magnetic resonance imaging with gradient-echo (GE) and spin-echo (SE) to assess perfusion parameters, including cerebral blood volume (CBV), cerebral blood flow (CBF), mean transit time (MTT), and mean vessel diameter. The GE-normalized CBF (nCBF) in the tumors of untreated controls was significantly lower than that in normal brain tissue, whereas the CBV and MTT were higher. DZP- and MZL-treated rats had higher CBF and lower CBV and MTT values than did untreated controls. The tumor size decreased significantly to 33.5% in DZP-treated rats (P<0.001) and 22.5% in MZL-treated rats (P<0.01) relative to controls. The SE-normalized CBV was lower in DZP-treated (32.9%) and MZL-treated (10.6%) rats compared with controls. The mean vessel diameter decreased significantly by 32.5% in DPZ-treated and by 24.9% in MZL-treated rats compared with controls (P<0.01). The GE and SE nCBF values were higher in DZP-treated (49.9% and 40.1%, respectively) and MZL-treated (41.2% and 32.1%, respectively) rats than in controls. The GE- and SE-normalized MTTs were lower in DZP-treated (48.2% and 59.8%, respectively) and MZL-treated (40.5% and 51.2%, respectively) rats than in controls. Both DZP and MZL had antiangiogenic effects on tumor perfusion and vasculature; however, the antiangiogenic activity of DZP is more promising than that of MZL.
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- Nuo Yan
- Second Department of Anesthesiology, The Affiliated Hospital to Logistics University of PAP, Tianjin
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Tianjin Huanhu Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Second Department of Anesthesiology, The Affiliated Hospital to Logistics University of PAP, Tianjin
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Mundiyanapurath S, Diatschuk S, Loebel S, Pfaff J, Pham M, Möhlenbruch MA, Wick W, Bendszus M, Ringleb PA, Radbruch A. Outcome of patients with proximal vessel occlusion of the anterior circulation and DWI-PWI mismatch is time-dependent. Eur J Radiol 2017. [PMID: 28629575 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2017.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Patients with ischemic stroke and large vessel occlusion are assumed to benefit from endovascular therapy (ET) independent of the symptom onset-to-treatment time (OTT) if they present with a mismatch of diffusion- and perfusion-weighted imaging (DWI-PWI mismatch). We aimed at studying the influence of OTT on clinical outcome in these patients. METHODS Retrospective database review in a tertiary care university hospital. All patients presented with proximal vessel occlusion of the anterior circulation and DWI-PWI mismatch. Primary outcome was the influence of OTT on modified Rankin scale (mRS) score three months after treatment, dichotomized in favourable (0-2) and unfavourable outcome (3-6). Secondary outcome was the effect of OTT on the shift of the mRS score. Patients treated within an early time window (<340min) and a late time window (≥340min) were compared. RESULTS 139 patients were included. The rate of favourable outcome was significantly higher in patients who were treated in an early compared to those treated in a late time window (31 [49%] vs. 20 patients [27%], p=0.005). Adjusted multivariate logistic regression revealed that late treatment was an independent negative predictor of favourable outcome (odds ratio 0.39, confidence interval [0.18-0.84]; p=0.016). A shift towards higher mRS scores for late treatment was evident (p=0.015). In sensitivity analysis, OTT remained an independent predictor when evaluated as continuous variable. These findings were confirmed in patients with a comparable DWI-PWI mismatch according to the definitions from large trials (DEFUSE 2, DEFUSE 3, SWIFT-PRIME, EXTEND-IA). CONCLUSION Outcome of patients with comparable DWI-PWI mismatch is time-dependent.
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- German Cancer Research Centre, Department of Radiology, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; CCU Neurooncology, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) & German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Centre, Department of Radiology, Heidelberg, Germany; Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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Increased cortical capillary transit time heterogeneity in Alzheimer's disease: a DSC-MRI perfusion study. Neurobiol Aging 2017; 50:107-118. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2016.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2016] [Revised: 10/17/2016] [Accepted: 11/11/2016] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Gutiérrez-Jiménez E, Cai C, Mikkelsen IK, Rasmussen PM, Angleys H, Merrild M, Mouridsen K, Jespersen SN, Lee J, Iversen NK, Sakadzic S, Østergaard L. Effect of electrical forepaw stimulation on capillary transit-time heterogeneity (CTH). J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2016; 36:2072-2086. [PMID: 26858243 PMCID: PMC5363666 DOI: 10.1177/0271678x16631560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2015] [Revised: 11/26/2015] [Accepted: 12/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Functional hyperemia reduces oxygen extraction efficacy unless counteracted by a reduction of capillary transit-time heterogeneity of blood. We adapted a bolus tracking approach to capillary transit-time heterogeneity estimation for two-photon microscopy and then quantified changes in plasma mean transit time and capillary transit-time heterogeneity during forepaw stimulation in anesthetized mice (C57BL/6NTac). In addition, we analyzed transit time coefficient of variance = capillary transit-time heterogeneity/mean transit time, which we expect to remain constant in passive, compliant microvascular networks. Electrical forepaw stimulation reduced, both mean transit time (11.3% ± 1.3%) and capillary transit-time heterogeneity (24.1% ± 3.3%), consistent with earlier literature and model predictions. We observed a coefficient of variance reduction (14.3% ± 3.5%) during functional activation, especially for the arteriolar-to-venular passage. Such coefficient of variance reduction during functional activation suggests homogenization of capillary flows beyond that expected as a passive response to increased blood flow by other stimuli. This finding is consistent with an active neurocapillary coupling mechanism, for example via pericyte dilation. Mean transit time and capillary transit-time heterogeneity reductions were consistent with the relative change inferred from capillary hemodynamics (cell velocity and flux). Our findings support the important role of capillary transit-time heterogeneity in flow-metabolism coupling during functional activation.
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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Lövblad KO, Kiefer C, Oswald H, Arnold M, Nedeltchev K, Mattle H, Schroth G. Imaging the Ischemic Penumbra. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.1177/197140090301600534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern; Switzerland
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- Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern; Switzerland
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- Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern; Switzerland
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Mundiyanapurath S, Ringleb PA, Diatschuk S, Hansen MB, Mouridsen K, Østergaard L, Wick W, Bendszus M, Radbruch A. Capillary Transit Time Heterogeneity Is Associated with Modified Rankin Scale Score at Discharge in Patients with Bilateral High Grade Internal Carotid Artery Stenosis. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0158148. [PMID: 27336668 PMCID: PMC4919050 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2016] [Accepted: 06/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Background and Purpose Perfusion weighted imaging (PWI) is inherently unreliable in patients with severe perfusion abnormalities. We compared the diagnostic accuracy of a novel index of microvascular flow-patterns, so-called capillary transit time heterogeneity (CTH) to that of the commonly used delay parameter Tmax in patients with bilateral high grade internal carotid artery stenosis (ICAS). Methods Consecutive patients with bilateral ICAS ≥ 70%NASCET who underwent PWI were retrospectively examined. Maps of CTH and Tmax were analyzed with a volumetric approach using several thresholds. Predictors of favorable outcome (modified Rankin scale at discharge 0–2) were identified using univariate and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. Results Eighteen patients were included. CTH ≥ 30s differentiated best between patients with favorable and unfavorable outcome when both hemispheres were taken into account (sensitivity 83%, specificity 73%, area under the curve [AUC] 0.833 [confidence interval (CI) 0.635; 1.000]; p = 0.027). The best discrimination using Tmax was achieved with a threshold of ≥ 4s (sensitivity 83%, specificity 64%, AUC 0.803 [CI 0.585;1.000]; p = 0.044). The highest AUC was found for left sided volume with CTH ≥ 15s (sensitivity 83%, specificity 91%, AUC 0.924 [CI 0.791;1.000]; p = 0.005). Conclusion The study suggests that CTH is superior to Tmax in discriminating ICAS patients with favorable from non-favorable outcome. This finding may reflect the simultaneous involvement of large vessels and microvessels in ICAS and underscore the need to diagnose and manage both aspects of the disease.
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- German Cancer Research Center, Department of Radiology, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus Univesity Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- CCU Neurooncology, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) & German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center, Department of Radiology, Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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Østergaard L, Engedal TS, Moreton F, Hansen MB, Wardlaw JM, Dalkara T, Markus HS, Muir KW. Cerebral small vessel disease: Capillary pathways to stroke and cognitive decline. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2016; 36:302-25. [PMID: 26661176 PMCID: PMC4759673 DOI: 10.1177/0271678x15606723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 177] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2015] [Accepted: 07/30/2015] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) gives rise to one in five strokes worldwide and constitutes a major source of cognitive decline in the elderly. SVD is known to occur in relation to hypertension, diabetes, smoking, radiation therapy and in a range of inherited and genetic disorders, autoimmune disorders, connective tissue disorders, and infections. Until recently, changes in capillary patency and blood viscosity have received little attention in the aetiopathogenesis of SVD and the high risk of subsequent stroke and cognitive decline. Capillary flow patterns were, however, recently shown to limit the extraction efficacy of oxygen in tissue and capillary dysfunction therefore proposed as a source of stroke-like symptoms and neurodegeneration, even in the absence of physical flow-limiting vascular pathology. In this review, we examine whether capillary flow disturbances may be a shared feature of conditions that represent risk factors for SVD. We then discuss aspects of capillary dysfunction that could be prevented or alleviated and therefore might be of general benefit to patients at risk of SVD, stroke or cognitive decline.
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- Leif Østergaard
- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Institute of Neurological Sciences and Psychiatry and Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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Østergaard L, Jespersen SN, Engedahl T, Gutiérrez Jiménez E, Ashkanian M, Hansen MB, Eskildsen S, Mouridsen K. Capillary dysfunction: its detection and causative role in dementias and stroke. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep 2015; 15:37. [PMID: 25956993 PMCID: PMC4441906 DOI: 10.1007/s11910-015-0557-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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In acute ischemic stroke, critical hypoperfusion is a frequent cause of hypoxic tissue injury: As cerebral blood flow (CBF) falls below the ischemic threshold of 20 mL/100 mL/min, neurological symptoms develop and hypoxic tissue injury evolves within minutes or hours unless the oxygen supply is restored. But is ischemia the only hemodynamic source of hypoxic tissue injury? Reanalyses of the equations we traditionally use to describe the relation between CBF and tissue oxygenation suggest that capillary flow patterns are crucial for the efficient extraction of oxygen: without close capillary flow control, "functional shunts" tend to form and some of the blood's oxygen content in effect becomes inaccessible to tissue. This phenomenon raises several questions: Are there in fact two hemodynamic causes of tissue hypoxia: Limited blood supply (ischemia) and limited oxygen extraction due to capillary dysfunction? If so, how do we distinguish the two, experimentally and in patients? Do flow-metabolism coupling mechanisms adjust CBF to optimize tissue oxygenation when capillary dysfunction impairs oxygen extraction downstream? Cardiovascular risk factors such as age, hypertension, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, and smoking increase the risk of both stroke and dementia. The capillary dysfunction phenomenon therefore forces us to consider whether changes in capillary morphology or blood rheology may play a role in the etiology of some stroke subtypes and in Alzheimer's disease. Here, we discuss whether certain disease characteristics suggest capillary dysfunction rather than primary flow-limiting vascular pathology and how capillary dysfunction may be imaged and managed.
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- Leif Østergaard
- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark,
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Lövblad KO, Altrichter S, Mendes Pereira V, Vargas M, Marcos Gonzalez A, Haller S, Sztajzel R. Imaging of acute stroke: CT and/or MRI. J Neuroradiol 2015; 42:55-64. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neurad.2014.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2014] [Revised: 10/16/2014] [Accepted: 10/17/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Capillary transit time heterogeneity and flow-metabolism coupling after traumatic brain injury. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2014; 34:1585-98. [PMID: 25052556 PMCID: PMC4269727 DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2014.131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2014] [Revised: 06/10/2014] [Accepted: 06/20/2014] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Most patients who die after traumatic brain injury (TBI) show evidence of ischemic brain damage. Nevertheless, it has proven difficult to demonstrate cerebral ischemia in TBI patients. After TBI, both global and localized changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF) are observed, depending on the extent of diffuse brain swelling and the size and location of contusions and hematoma. These changes vary considerably over time, with most TBI patients showing reduced CBF during the first 12 hours after injury, then hyperperfusion, and in some patients vasospasms before CBF eventually normalizes. This apparent neurovascular uncoupling has been ascribed to mitochondrial dysfunction, hindered oxygen diffusion into tissue, or microthrombosis. Capillary compression by astrocytic endfeet swelling is observed in biopsies acquired from TBI patients. In animal models, elevated intracranial pressure compresses capillaries, causing redistribution of capillary flows into patterns argued to cause functional shunting of oxygenated blood through the capillary bed. We used a biophysical model of oxygen transport in tissue to examine how capillary flow disturbances may contribute to the profound changes in CBF after TBI. The analysis suggests that elevated capillary transit time heterogeneity can cause critical reductions in oxygen availability in the absence of 'classic' ischemia. We discuss diagnostic and therapeutic consequences of these predictions.
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Mehndiratta A, Calamante F, MacIntosh BJ, Crane DE, Payne SJ, Chappell MA. Modeling and correction of bolus dispersion effects in dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI. Magn Reson Med 2014; 72:1762-74. [PMID: 24453108 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2013] [Revised: 10/16/2013] [Accepted: 11/04/2013] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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PURPOSE Bolus dispersion in DSC-MRI can lead to errors in cerebral blood flow (CBF) estimation by up to 70% when using singular value decomposition analysis. However, it might be possible to correct for dispersion using two alternative methods: the vascular model (VM) and control point interpolation (CPI). Additionally, these approaches potentially provide a means to quantify the microvascular residue function. METHODS VM and CPI were extended to correct for dispersion by means of a vascular transport function. Simulations were performed at multiple dispersion levels and an in vivo analysis was performed on a healthy subject and two patients with carotid atherosclerotic disease. RESULTS Simulations showed that methods that could not address dispersion tended to underestimate CBF (ratio in CBF estimation, CBFratio = 0.57-0.77) in the presence of dispersion; whereas modified CPI showed the best performance at low-to-medium dispersion; CBFratio = 0.99 and 0.81, respectively. The in vivo data showed trends in CBF estimation and residue function that were consistent with the predictions from simulations. CONCLUSION In patients with atherosclerotic disease the estimated residue function showed considerable differences in the ipsilateral hemisphere. These differences could partly be attributed to dispersive effects arising from the stenosis when dispersion corrected CPI was used. It is thus beneficial to correct for dispersion in perfusion analysis using this method.
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- Amit Mehndiratta
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Kate MP, Hansen MB, Mouridsen K, Østergaard L, Choi V, Gould BE, McCourt R, Hill MD, Demchuk AM, Coutts SB, Dowlatshahi D, Emery DJ, Buck BH, Butcher KS. Blood pressure reduction does not reduce perihematoma oxygenation: a CT perfusion study. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2014; 34:81-6. [PMID: 24045403 PMCID: PMC3887345 DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2013.164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2013] [Revised: 08/01/2013] [Accepted: 08/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Blood pressure (BP) reduction after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is controversial, because of concerns that this may cause critical reductions in perihematoma perfusion and thereby precipitate tissue damage. We tested the hypothesis that BP reduction reduces perihematoma tissue oxygenation.Acute ICH patients were randomized to a systolic BP target of <150 or <180 mm Hg. Patients underwent CT perfusion (CTP) imaging 2 hours after randomization. Maps of cerebral blood flow (CBF), maximum oxygen extraction fraction (OEF(max)), and the resulting maximum cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen (CMRO2(max)) permitted by local hemodynamics, were calculated from raw CTP data.Sixty-five patients (median (interquartile range) age 70 (20)) were imaged at a median (interquartile range) time from onset to CTP of 9.8 (13.6) hours. Mean OEF(max) was elevated in the perihematoma region (0.44±0.12) relative to contralateral tissue (0.36±0.11; P<0.001). Perihematoma CMRO2(max) (3.40±1.67 mL/100 g per minute) was slightly lower relative to contralateral tissue (3.63±1.66 mL/100 g per minute; P=0.025). Despite a significant difference in systolic BP between the aggressive (140.5±18.7 mm Hg) and conservative (163.0±10.6 mm Hg; P<0.001) treatment groups, perihematoma CBF was unaffected (37.2±11.9 versus 35.8±9.6 mL/100 g per minute; P=0.307). Similarly, aggressive BP treatment did not affect perihematoma OEF(max) (0.43±0.12 versus 0.45±0.11; P=0.232) or CMRO2(max) (3.16±1.66 versus 3.68±1.85 mL/100 g per minute; P=0.857). Blood pressure reduction does not affect perihematoma oxygen delivery. These data support the safety of early aggressive BP treatment in ICH.
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- Mahesh P Kate
- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, WMC Health Sciences Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, WMC Health Sciences Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, WMC Health Sciences Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, WMC Health Sciences Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, WMC Health Sciences Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, WMC Health Sciences Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Østergaard L, Aamand R, Karabegovic S, Tietze A, Blicher JU, Mikkelsen IK, Iversen NK, Secher N, Engedal TS, Anzabi M, Jimenez EG, Cai C, Koch KU, Naess-Schmidt ET, Obel A, Juul N, Rasmussen M, Sørensen JCH. The role of the microcirculation in delayed cerebral ischemia and chronic degenerative changes after subarachnoid hemorrhage. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2013; 33:1825-37. [PMID: 24064495 PMCID: PMC3851911 DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2013.173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2013] [Revised: 08/31/2013] [Accepted: 09/08/2013] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The mortality after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is 50%, and most survivors suffer severe functional and cognitive deficits. Half of SAH patients deteriorate 5 to 14 days after the initial bleeding, so-called delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI). Although often attributed to vasospasms, DCI may develop in the absence of angiographic vasospasms, and therapeutic reversal of angiographic vasospasms fails to improve patient outcome. The etiology of chronic neurodegenerative changes after SAH remains poorly understood. Brain oxygenation depends on both cerebral blood flow (CBF) and its microscopic distribution, the so-called capillary transit time heterogeneity (CTH). In theory, increased CTH can therefore lead to tissue hypoxia in the absence of severe CBF reductions, whereas reductions in CBF, paradoxically, improve brain oxygenation if CTH is critically elevated. We review potential sources of elevated CTH after SAH. Pericyte constrictions in relation to the initial ischemic episode and subsequent oxidative stress, nitric oxide depletion during the pericapillary clearance of oxyhemoglobin, vasogenic edema, leukocytosis, and astrocytic endfeet swelling are identified as potential sources of elevated CTH, and hence of metabolic derangement, after SAH. Irreversible changes in capillary morphology and function are predicted to contribute to long-term relative tissue hypoxia, inflammation, and neurodegeneration. We discuss diagnostic and therapeutic implications of these predictions.
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- Leif Østergaard
- 1] Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark [2] Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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The Relationship between Tumor Blood Flow, Angiogenesis, Tumor Hypoxia, and Aerobic Glycolysis. Cancer Res 2013; 73:5618-24. [DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-13-0964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The pathophysiology of cerebral ischemia is traditionally understood in relation to reductions in cerebral blood flow (CBF). However, a recent reanalysis of the flow-diffusion equation shows that increased capillary transit time heterogeneity (CTTH) can reduce the oxygen extraction efficacy in brain tissue for a given CBF. Changes in capillary morphology are typical of conditions predisposing to stroke and of experimental ischemia. Changes in capillary flow patterns have been observed by direct microscopy in animal models of ischemia and by indirect methods in humans stroke, but their metabolic significance remain unclear. We modeled the effects of progressive increases in CTTH on the way in which brain tissue can secure sufficient oxygen to meet its metabolic needs. Our analysis predicts that as CTTH increases, CBF responses to functional activation and to vasodilators must be suppressed to maintain sufficient tissue oxygenation. Reductions in CBF, increases in CTTH, and combinations thereof can seemingly trigger a critical lack of oxygen in brain tissue, and the restoration of capillary perfusion patterns therefore appears to be crucial for the restoration of the tissue oxygenation after ischemic episodes. In this review, we discuss the possible implications of these findings for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of acute stroke.
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Østergaard L, Aamand R, Gutiérrez-Jiménez E, Ho YCL, Blicher JU, Madsen SM, Nagenthiraja K, Dalby RB, Drasbek KR, Møller A, Brændgaard H, Mouridsen K, Jespersen SN, Jensen MS, West MJ. The capillary dysfunction hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiol Aging 2012; 34:1018-31. [PMID: 23084084 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2012.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2012] [Revised: 08/17/2012] [Accepted: 09/07/2012] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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It is widely accepted that hypoperfusion and changes in capillary morphology are involved in the etiopathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). This is difficult to reconcile with the hyperperfusion observed in young high-risk subjects. Differences in the way cerebral blood flow (CBF) is coupled with the local metabolic needs during different phases of the disease can explain this apparent paradox. This review describes this coupling in terms of a model of cerebral oxygen availability that takes into consideration the heterogeneity of capillary blood flow patterns. The model predicts that moderate increases in heterogeneity requires elevated CBF in order to maintain adequate oxygenation. However, with progressive increases in heterogeneity, the resulting low tissue oxygen tension will require a suppression of CBF in order to maintain tissue metabolism. The observed biphasic nature of CBF responses in preclinical AD and AD is therefore consistent with progressive disturbances of capillary flow patterns. Salient features of the model are discussed in the context of AD pathology along with potential sources of increased capillary flow heterogeneity.
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- Leif Østergaard
- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
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Boada FE, Qian Y, Nemoto E, Jovin T, Jungreis C, Jones SC, Weimer J, Lee V. Sodium MRI and the assessment of irreversible tissue damage during hyper-acute stroke. Transl Stroke Res 2012; 3:236-45. [PMID: 24323779 DOI: 10.1007/s12975-012-0168-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2012] [Accepted: 03/29/2012] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Sodium MRI (sMRI) has undergone a tremendous amount of technical development during the last two decades that makes it a suitable tool for the study of human pathology in the acute setting within the constraints of a clinical environment. The salient role of the sodium ion during impaired ATP production during the course of brain ischemia makes sMRI an ideal tool for the study of ischemic tissue viability during stroke. In this paper, the current limitations of conventional MRI for the determination of tissue viability during evolving brain ischemia are discussed. This discussion is followed by a summary of the known findings about the dynamics of tissue sodium changes during brain ischemia. A mechanistic model for the explanation of these findings is presented together with the technical requirements for its investigation using clinical MRI scanners. An illustration of the salient features of the technique is also presented using a nonhuman primate model of reversible middle cerebral artery occlusion.
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- Fernando E Boada
- MR Research Center, Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA,
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The roles of cerebral blood flow, capillary transit time heterogeneity, and oxygen tension in brain oxygenation and metabolism. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2012; 32:264-77. [PMID: 22044867 PMCID: PMC3272609 DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2011.153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 334] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Normal brain function depends critically on moment-to-moment regulation of oxygen supply by the bloodstream to meet changing metabolic needs. Neurovascular coupling, a range of mechanisms that converge on arterioles to adjust local cerebral blood flow (CBF), represents our current framework for understanding this regulation. We modeled the combined effects of CBF and capillary transit time heterogeneity (CTTH) on the maximum oxygen extraction fraction (OEF(max)) and metabolic rate of oxygen that can biophysically be supported, for a given tissue oxygen tension. Red blood cell velocity recordings in rat brain support close hemodynamic-metabolic coupling by means of CBF and CTTH across a range of physiological conditions. The CTTH reduction improves tissue oxygenation by counteracting inherent reductions in OEF(max) as CBF increases, and seemingly secures sufficient oxygenation during episodes of hyperemia resulting from cortical activation or hypoxemia. In hypoperfusion and states of blocked CBF, both lower oxygen tension and CTTH may secure tissue oxygenation. Our model predicts that disturbed capillary flows may cause a condition of malignant CTTH, in which states of higher CBF display lower oxygen availability. We propose that conditions with altered capillary morphology, such as amyloid, diabetic or hypertensive microangiopathy, and ischemia-reperfusion, may disturb CTTH and thereby flow-metabolism coupling and cerebral oxygen metabolism.
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Although acute stroke imaging has made significant progress in the last few years, several improvements and validation steps are needed to make stroke-imaging techniques fully operational and appropriate in daily clinical practice. This review outlines the needs in the stroke-imaging field and describes a consortium that was founded to provide them.
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- Department of Radiology, Neuroradiology Section. University of California, San Francisco
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- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health
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Poussaint TY, Kocak M, Vajapeyam S, Packer RI, Robertson RL, Geyer R, Haas-Kogan D, Pollack IF, Vezina G, Zimmerman R, Cha S, Patay Z, Boyett JM, Kun LE. MRI as a central component of clinical trials analysis in brainstem glioma: a report from the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC). Neuro Oncol 2011; 13:417-27. [PMID: 21297126 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noq200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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We report MRI findings from 2 pediatric clinical trials of diffuse intrinsic brainstem glioma (BSG) incorporating concurrent radiation therapy (RT) with molecularly targeted agents (gefitinib and tipifarnib). We determined associations of MRI variables with progression-free survival and overall survival and investigated effects of treatment on these variables. MRI (including diffusion and perfusion) was done before treatment, every 8 weeks (first year), every 12 weeks (thereafter), and at the end of treatment or disease progression. Reduced tumor volume (P < .0001) and tumor diffusion values (P <.0001) were apparent on the first post-RT/drug studies. Decreases in tumor volume correlated with pre-RT volume (P < .0001) and pre-RT diffusion values (P < .0001); larger decreases were noted for tumors with higher volumes and diffusion values. Patients with larger pre-RT tumors had longer progression-free survival (P < .0001). Patients with ≥ 25% decrease in tumor volume and diffusion values after RT had longer progression-free survival (P = .028) and overall survival (P = .0009). Enhancement at baseline and over time was significantly associated with shorter survival. Tumor diffusion values with baseline enhancement were significantly lower than those without (P = .0002). RT of BSG is associated with decreased tumor volume and intralesional diffusion values; patients with ≥ 25% decrease in values post-RT had relatively longer survival intervals, apparently providing an early imaging-based surrogate for relative outcomes. Patients with larger tumors and greater decreases in tumor volume and diffusion values had longer survival intervals. Tumor enhancement was associated with shorter survival, lower tumor diffusion values (increased cellularity), and a smaller drop in diffusion values after RT (P = .006). These associations justify continued investigation in other large clinical trials of brainstem glioma patients.
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Holland D, Kuperman JM, Dale AM. Efficient correction of inhomogeneous static magnetic field-induced distortion in Echo Planar Imaging. Neuroimage 2009; 50:175-83. [PMID: 19944768 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.11.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 337] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2009] [Revised: 11/17/2009] [Accepted: 11/18/2009] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Single-shot Echo Planar Imaging (EPI) is one of the most efficient magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisition schemes, producing relatively high-definition images in 100 ms or less. These qualities make it desirable for Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI), functional MRI (fMRI), and Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast MRI (DSC-MRI). However, EPI suffers from severe spatial and intensity distortion due to B(0) field inhomogeneity induced by magnetic susceptibility variations. Anatomically accurate, undistorted images are essential for relating DTI and fMRI images with anatomical MRI scans, and for spatial registration with other modalities. We present here a fast, robust, and accurate procedure for correcting EPI images from such spatial and intensity distortions. The method involves acquisition of scans with opposite phase encoding polarities, resulting in opposite spatial distortion patterns, and alignment of the resulting images using a fast nonlinear registration procedure. We show that this method, requiring minimal additional scan time, provides superior accuracy relative to the more commonly used, and more time consuming, field mapping approach. This method is also highly computationally efficient, allowing for direct "real-time" implementation on the MRI scanner. We further demonstrate that the proposed method can be used to recover dropouts in gradient echo (BOLD and DSC-MRI) EPI images.
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- Dominic Holland
- Multimodal Imaging Laboratory, The University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
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Herneth AM, Ringl H, Memarsadeghi M, Fueger B, Friedrich KM, Krestan C, Imhof H. Diffusion weighted imaging in osteoradiology. Top Magn Reson Imaging 2007; 18:203-12. [PMID: 17762384 DOI: 10.1097/rmr.0b013e3180cac61d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Diffusion weighted imaging gained attention as an imaging modality, which provides information on the microstructure of a tissue, which can be used for tissue characterization. This is of importance in patients where other diagnostic tools provide equivocal or unspecific information. In addition quantitative diffusion measurements provide objective parameters for unbiased comparison of treatment response, which is mandatory for therapy monitoring. Technical restriction limited the use of Diffusion Weighted Imaging to the brain. However, with the improvement in scanner technology and the availability of new MR sequences investigation of the Muskulo Skeletal System was made possible. We describe the potential of Diffusion Weighted Imaging as a non-invasive technique to evaluate pathological, inflammatory and physiological processes in osteoradiology.
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- Andreas M Herneth
- Departmentsof Radiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
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Quarles CC, Schmainda KM. Assessment of the morphological and functional effects of the anti-angiogenic agent SU11657 on 9L gliosarcoma vasculature using dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI. Magn Reson Med 2007; 57:680-7. [PMID: 17390352 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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To investigate the influence of anti-angiogenic agents on tumor perfusion, we employed a dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC)-MRI method that utilizes a simultaneous gradient-echo (GE) and spin-echo (SE) imaging sequence to derive perfusion parameters (blood flow, blood volume, and mean transit time (MTT)). These parameters are sensitive to both the total vasculature (from the GE data) and the microvasculature (from the SE data), and can also provide a measure of the mean vessel diameter (mVD). This approach was used to evaluate the response of a 9L rat brain tumor model to 20 mg/kg and 40 mg/kg of the anti-angiogenic agent SU11657. The 20-mg/kg dose significantly decreased mVD by 29.9% (P = 0.02). The 40-mg/kg dose significantly decreased mVD by 30.4% (P = 0.0007), SE blood volume by 31.8% (P = 0.03), GE and SE MTT by 46.9% (P = 0.03) and 62.0% (P = 0.0005), and increased GE and SE blood flow by 36.6% (P = 0.04) and 52.6% (P = 0.02). These findings demonstrate that DSC-MRI perfusion methods can play a key role in the noninvasive evaluation of morphological and functional changes in tumor vasculature in response to therapy.
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- C C Quarles
- Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226-0509, USA
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Mouridsen K, Friston K, Hjort N, Gyldensted L, Østergaard L, Kiebel S. Bayesian estimation of cerebral perfusion using a physiological model of microvasculature. Neuroimage 2006; 33:570-9. [PMID: 16971140 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.06.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2006] [Revised: 06/07/2006] [Accepted: 06/18/2006] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Perfusion weighted MRI has proven very useful for deriving hemodynamic parameters such as CBF, CBV and MTT. These quantities are important diagnostically, e.g. in acute stroke, where they are used to delineate ischemic regions. Yet the standard method for estimating CBF based on singular value decomposition (SVD) has been demonstrated to underestimate (especially high) flow components and to be sensitive to delays in the arterial input function (AIF). Furthermore, the estimated residue functions often oscillate. This compromises their physiological interpretation/basis and makes estimation of related measures such as flow heterogeneity difficult. In this study, we estimate perfusion parameters based on a vascular model (VM) which represents heterogeneous capillary flow and explicitly leads to monotonically decreasing residue functions. We use a fully Bayesian approach to obtain posterior probability distributions for all parameters. In simulation studies, we show that the VM method has less bias in CBF estimates than the SVD based method for realistic SNRs. This also applies to cases where the AIF is delayed. We employ our method to estimate perfusion maps using data from (i) a healthy volunteer and (ii) from a stroke patient.
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- Kim Mouridsen
- Department of Neuroradiology, Centre of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Building 30, Arhus University Hospital, Nørrebrogade 44, DK-8000 Arhus C, Denmark.
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There is increasing interest in using diffusion-weighted (DWI) MR imaging and perfusion-weighted MR imaging (PWI) to assist clinical decision-making in the management of acute stroke patients. Larger PWI than DWI lesions have been speculated to represent potentially salvageable tissue that is at risk of infarction unless nutritive flow is restored and presence of these mismatches have been proposed as inclusion criteria for identifying patients most likely to benefit from therapeutic intervention. Understanding the technical aspects of PWI may improve comprehension of the capabilities and limitations of this technique.
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- Ona Wu
- MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.
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Mustonen T, Koivisto T, Vanninen E, Vanninen R, Kuikka JT. Cerebral perfusion heterogeneity and complexity in patients with acute subarachnoid haemorrhage. Nucl Med Commun 2006; 27:157-64. [PMID: 16404229 DOI: 10.1097/01.mnm.0000194399.04820.31] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND The pathophysiological mechanisms of impaired perfusion during acute subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) are incompletely understood. Cerebral perfusion at the micro vascular level can be assessed by single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). We used a SPECT approach with 99mTc-ECD to measure the cerebral perfusion heterogeneity and complexity in patients with acute aneurysmal SAH or perimesencephalic non-aneurysmal SAH (PNSAH). METHODS The perfusion SPECT data of 61 patients with aneurysmal SAH, 18 patients with PNSAH, and 20 healthy control subjects were analysed by dividing the brain into 384 regions of interest. The magnitude of spatial perfusion heterogeneity was assessed by calculating the relative dispersion (RD=coefficient of variation). The fractal dimension (FD) was used to describe the overall complexity of global cerebral perfusion. RESULTS Patients with aneurysmal SAH (RD=11.30+/-2.17, P<0.001) and PNSAH (10.38+/-2.27, P=0.023) had a higher perfusion heterogeneity than control subjects (8.69+/-0.80). Patients with aneurysmal SAH tended to have a higher perfusion heterogeneity than patients with PNSAH (P=0.061). Also the overall complexity of cerebral perfusion was decreased in aneurysmal SAH (FD=1.11+/-0.06, P<0.001) and PNSAH (1.11+/-0.06, P=0.004) as compared with control subjects (1.17+/-0.06). Acute SAH causes increased regional cerebral perfusion heterogeneity and decreased overall complexity of global cerebral perfusion. CONCLUSION Non-invasive assessment of cerebral perfusion characteristics is feasible with SPECT and fractal analysis in patients with acute SAH and may help evaluating micro vascular function in SAH.
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- Timo Mustonen
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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Lövblad KO, Baird AE. Actual diagnostic approach to the acute stroke patient. Eur Radiol 2005; 16:1253-69. [PMID: 16372164 DOI: 10.1007/s00330-005-0103-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2005] [Revised: 11/18/2005] [Accepted: 11/25/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Since acute stroke is now considered a potentially treatable medical emergency, a rapid and correct diagnosis must be made. The first step is to exclude hemorrhage, then to visualize any early ischemic changes, demonstrate the presence of hypoperfusion and locate the presence of a vascular underlying pathology as well as elucidate the presence of a potential penumbra (tissue at risk). Thanks to improvements and advances in both MR and CT technology, this can now be done in a number of ways. At the moment, CT is the most widely available and fast method for obtaining imaging of the brain and neck vessels of patients presenting with acute stroke. MRI can provide more precise information, although it remains slightly more time-consuming, but is, however, the method of choice for follow-up imaging. The main point is to take the one-stop-shopping approach where imaging of the vessels and brain is done from the aortic arch to the circle of Willis in one single session in order to have all the necessary information in the acute phase.
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- Karl-Olof Lövblad
- Neuroradiology Unit, Radiology Department, SRRI, HUG Geneva University Hospital, 24 rue Micheli-du-Crest, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland.
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Quarles CC, Ward BD, Schmainda KM. Improving the reliability of obtaining tumor hemodynamic parameters in the presence of contrast agent extravasation. Magn Reson Med 2005; 53:1307-16. [PMID: 15906288 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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A new approach to improve the reliability of dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI for the evaluation of brain tumor hemodynamics in the presence of contrast agent extravasation is described. This model-based technique simultaneously estimates the voxel-wise tumor residue function and the temporal extravascular T(1) changes following contrast agent leakage. With these estimates the model corrects the measured MRI signal, which is then used to calculate tumor hemodynamic parameters. The feasibility of this technique is demonstrated with computer simulations that cover a wide range of hemodynamic conditions and by application to eight tumor-bearing rats. The simulations demonstrate that the corrected hemodynamic parameters precisely matched the actual values with a maximum percentage error of 4.2% compared to 68.6% for the uncorrected parameters. The corrected parameters are also essentially independent of the tumor hemodynamic state and degree of contrast extravasation. Consistent with these improvements, significant differences between corrected and uncorrected parameters, calculated from a gradient-echo sequence, are shown in a rat 9L gliosarcoma model. This method combined with the hemodynamic parameters derived from GE and SE sequences shows promise as a new tool to evaluate tumor angiogenesis and its therapy.
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- C C Quarles
- Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226-0509, USA
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Chen G, Jespersen SN, Pedersen M, Pang Q, Horsman MR, Stødkilde-Jørgensen H. Intravenous administration of Gd-DTPA prior to DWI does not affect the apparent diffusion constant. Magn Reson Imaging 2005; 23:685-9. [PMID: 16051044 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2005.02.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2004] [Accepted: 02/21/2005] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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MRI measurements of water diffusion and blood perfusion are increasingly used for the evaluation of organ functionality and tissue viability (e.g., in tumors). While diffusion-weighted imaging is performed without contrast agents, measurement of blood perfusion is normally performed based on the administration of paramagnetic substances such as gadolinium diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (Gd-DTPA). Simultaneous measurements of these two parameters are often preferred. However, it may be argued that Gd-DTPA causes constriction of small blood vessels or alters hemodynamic parameters such as blood viscosity, thereby corrupting subsequent measurements of the apparent diffusion constant (ADC). The objective of the current study was to investigate the possible changes in the ADC in tumors following intravenous administration of 0.2 and 0.4 mmol/kg of Gd-DTPA in mice. The study was conducted with C3H mouse mammary carcinomas inoculated in the right foot of the animal subjects. The results were compared with findings in a sham group, demonstrating that Gd-DTPA had no significant impact on the ADC as measured in a 7-T animal system.
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- Gang Chen
- MR Research Center, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, DK8200 Aarhus N, Denmark.
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Ibaraki M, Shimosegawa E, Toyoshima H, Takahashi K, Miura S, Kanno I. Tracer delay correction of cerebral blood flow with dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced MRI. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2005; 25:378-90. [PMID: 15674238 DOI: 10.1038/sj.jcbfm.9600037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Cerebral blood flow (CBF) and vascular mean transit time (MTT) can be determined by dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging and deconvolution with an arterial input function. However, deconvolution by a singular value decomposition (SVD) method is sensitive to the tracer delay that often occurs in patients with cerebrovascular disease. We investigated the effect of tracer delay on CBF determined by SVD deconvolution. Simulation study showed that underestimation of CBF due to tracer delay was larger for shorter MTTs. We developed a delay correction method that determines tracer delay by means of least-squares fitting pixel-by-pixel. The corrected CBF was determined by SVD deconvolution after time-shifting of the measured concentration curve. The simulations showed that the corrected CBF was insensitive to tracer delay irrespective of the vascular model, although CBF fluctuation increased slightly. We applied the delay correction to the CBF and MTT images acquired for nine patients with hyperacute stroke and unilateral occlusion of the middle cerebral artery. We found in some patients that the delay correction modulated the contrast of CBF and MTT images. For hyperacute stroke patients, tracer delay correction is essential to obtain reliable perfusion image when SVD deconvolution is used.
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- Masanobu Ibaraki
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Akita Research Institute of Brain and Blood Vessels, Akita, Japan.
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Miller JC, Sorensen AG. Imaging biomarkers predictive of disease/therapy outcome: ischemic stroke and drug development. PROGRESS IN DRUG RESEARCH. FORTSCHRITTE DER ARZNEIMITTELFORSCHUNG. PROGRES DES RECHERCHES PHARMACEUTIQUES 2005; 62:319-56. [PMID: 16329261 DOI: 10.1007/3-7643-7426-8_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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- Janet C Miller
- MGH-HST Center for Biomarkers in Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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Salat DH, Tuch DS, Greve DN, van der Kouwe AJW, Hevelone ND, Zaleta AK, Rosen BR, Fischl B, Corkin S, Rosas HD, Dale AM. Age-related alterations in white matter microstructure measured by diffusion tensor imaging. Neurobiol Aging 2004; 26:1215-27. [PMID: 15917106 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2004.09.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 608] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2004] [Revised: 08/26/2004] [Accepted: 09/30/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Cerebral white matter (WM) undergoes various degenerative changes with normal aging, including decreases in myelin density and alterations in myelin structure. We acquired whole-head, high-resolution diffusion tensor images (DTI) in 38 participants across the adult age span. Maps of fractional anisotropy (FA), a measure of WM microstructure, were calculated for each participant to determine whether particular fiber systems of the brain are preferentially vulnerable to WM degeneration. Regional FA measures were estimated from nine regions of interest in each hemisphere and from the genu and splenium of the corpus callosum (CC). The results showed significant age-related decline in FA in frontal WM, the posterior limb of the internal capsule (PLIC), and the genu of the CC. In contrast, temporal and posterior WM was relatively preserved. These findings suggest that WM alterations are variable throughout the brain and that particular fiber populations within prefrontal region and PLIC are most vulnerable to age-related degeneration.
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- D H Salat
- MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA 02129-2060, USA.
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Imaging of cerebral perfusion, particularly by the dynamic tracking of a bolus of gadolinium-based contrast agent, has emerged from the experimental laboratory and become a routine aspect of neuroradiologic practice. This article discusses the practical implementation of "perfusion" protocols into neuroradiologic examinations, as well as discussing the role of postprocessing and quantitative interpretation in terms of vascular physiology and function. Several key clinical indications are introduced, such as acute cerebral ischemia, chronic vascular disease, and tumors.
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- Howard A Rowley
- Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 53792, USA.
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Provenzale JM, Jahan R, Naidich TP, Fox AJ. Assessment of the patient with hyperacute stroke: imaging and therapy. Radiology 2003; 229:347-59. [PMID: 14595138 DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2292020402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Neuroimaging is an important part of the assessment of patients with hyperacute stroke. As new treatments that may reverse cerebral ischemia have been developed, the role of neuroimaging has changed from simply anatomic depiction of early infarction to identification, by means of physiologic (rather than simply anatomic) information, of regions that are at risk for infarction. The goal of such imaging techniques is to monitor successes and complications of recently developed treatments such as thrombolysis.
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- James M Provenzale
- Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3808, Durham, NC 27710-3808, USA
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Willinek WA, Gieseke J, von Falkenhausen M, Neuen B, Schild HH, Kuhl CK. Sensitivity encoding for fast MR imaging of the brain in patients with stroke. Radiology 2003; 228:669-75. [PMID: 12881577 DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2283020243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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PURPOSE To evaluate sensitivity encoding (SENSE) technique in a clinical setting for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in patients who are suspected of having infarction. MATERIALS AND METHODS This intraindividual comparative study included 62 patients suspected of having cerebral ischemia. Patients underwent T2-weighted fluid-attenuated inversion-recovery (FLAIR) (n = 62), T2-weighted turbo spin-echo (TSE) (n = 48), and single-shot echo-planar diffusion-weighted imaging (n = 27) with standard sequential and SENSE MR acquisitions with a 1.5-T magnet and phased-array coil. With SENSE, acquisition time was reduced from 1 minute 12 seconds to 35 seconds for FLAIR and from 1 minute 18 seconds to 39 seconds for T2-weighted TSE imaging. For diffusion-weighted imaging, echo train length was shortened (78 vs 71 msec) to reduce susceptibility effects while acquisition time was maintained. Two radiologists scored quality of standard and SENSE images with a five-point scale and assessed presence of artifacts (motion, susceptibility) and lesion conspicuity. To assess statistical significance, Wilcoxon signed rank and chi2 tests were used. RESULTS Statistical analysis revealed no significant difference in terms of image quality and presence of artifacts between standard and SENSE T2-weighted TSE (image quality, P =.724; presence of artifacts, P =.378) and FLAIR (image quality, P =.127; presence of artifacts, P =.275) images. Image quality at SENSE diffusion-weighted imaging was scored significantly higher compared with that at standard diffusion-weighted imaging (P =.002). Susceptibility artifacts were significantly reduced at SENSE diffusion-weighted imaging when compared with those at standard diffusion-weighted imaging (P <.001). Conspicuity of 84 lesions was rated equivalent with both standard and SENSE protocols. CONCLUSION SENSE allowed acquisition of T2-weighted TSE and FLAIR images with image quality and lesion conspicuity that did not differ from those of standard acquisition techniques but in only half the acquisition time. Use of SENSE with diffusion-weighted imaging significantly reduces susceptibility artifacts while lesion conspicuity is maintained.
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- Winfried A Willinek
- Department of Radiology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, D-53105 Bonn, Germany.
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New developments in fast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have enabled imaging of cerebral haemodynamics. This article describes the theory behind perfusion imaging and provides an overview of the most commonly used MRI technique. Limitations of this technique are described, and the potential clinical applications are discussed, with particular attention to the role of perfusion imaging in the context of stroke and brain tumour.
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- P Keston
- Academic Department of Radiology, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, UK.
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Herneth AM, Philipp MO, Naude J, Funovics M, Beichel RR, Bammer R, Imhof H. Vertebral metastases: assessment with apparent diffusion coefficient. Radiology 2002; 225:889-94. [PMID: 12461275 DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2253011707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The authors evaluated the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) in the assessment of vertebral metastases and acute vertebral compression fractures in 22 patients with known or suspected vertebral metastases. On the basis of significantly (P <.03) different ADCs, vertebral metastases (0.69 x 10(-3) mm2/sec) and pathologic compression fractures (0.65 x 10(-3) mm2/sec) can be safely distinguished from vertebral bodies (1.66 x 10(-3) mm2/sec) and benign compression fractures (1.62 x 10(-3) mm2/sec). Thus, the use of ADCs may increase the specificity of magnetic resonance imaging in these patients.
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- Andreas M Herneth
- Department of Radiology, University of Vienna, AKH-Wien, 8F, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
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Dynamic susceptibility contrast imaging has proven to be useful in brain tumor studies, and it provides additional information on tumor characteristics based on the microvascular structure of gliomas. The cerebral blood volume maps can be used to noninvasively grade gliomas, to determine optimal biopsy sites, to separate radiation necrosis from tumor regrowth, and to plan and follow irradiation, chemo- and antiangiogenic therapy. Besides of cerebral blood volume mapping, dynamic susceptibility contrast imaging sets also contain information about the flow and permeability properties of the tumor microvascular system. When combined with the conventional MRI, dynamic susceptibility contrast techniques offer important functional information about the biology of gliomas in a cost-effective way.
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- Hannu J Aronen
- Department of Clinical Radiology, Kuopio University Hospital, P.O. Box 1777, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland.
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Simonsen CZ, Røhl L, Vestergaard-Poulsen P, Gyldensted C, Andersen G, Østergaard L. Final infarct size after acute stroke: prediction with flow heterogeneity. Radiology 2002; 225:269-75. [PMID: 12355015 DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2251011249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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PURPOSE To compare acute measurements of flow heterogeneity (FH) and mean transit time (MTT) with follow-up data to determine which method yields better predictive measures of final infarct volumes. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-three patients with symptoms of stroke underwent magnetic resonance (MR) imaging during the acute stage, and the tissue at risk was estimated from MTT maps and maps generated by means of detecting abnormal FH. Final infarct volumes were calculated from T2-weighted follow-up MR image measurement. The Wilcoxon signed rank test was performed to compare the two predictive maps (MTT and FH) with T2-weighted follow-up maps. RESULTS Eleven (48%) patients experienced infarct growth. Both the MTT and the FH maps enabled prediction of 10 of these cases. There were five false-positive cases with MTT measurement but three with FH measurement. In terms of predicting final infarct volumes, the final infarct size on the MTT maps was overestimated by 75%. The final infarct size on the FH maps also was overestimated, but by only 15%. MTT map measurements were significantly different from follow-up MR image measurements (P =.005), but FH map measurements were not (P =.059). CONCLUSION FH maps may enable more precise prediction of final infarct volume in stroke patients.
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- Claus Z Simonsen
- Department of Neuroradiology, Arhus University Hospital, Nørrebrogade 44, DK-8000 Arhus C, Denmark
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Rudin M, Baumann D, Ekatodramis D, Stirnimann R, McAllister KH, Sauter A. MRI analysis of the changes in apparent water diffusion coefficient, T(2) relaxation time, and cerebral blood flow and volume in the temporal evolution of cerebral infarction following permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion in rats. Exp Neurol 2001; 169:56-63. [PMID: 11312558 DOI: 10.1006/exnr.2001.7650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Detailed knowledge of similarities and differences between animal models and human stroke is decisive for selecting clinically effective drugs based on efficacy data obtained preclinically. Differences in the temporal evolution of stroke pathologies between animal models and man have been reported. In view of the importance of this issue for the development of neuroprotective treatments, the temporal evolution of stroke pathologies in the rat permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion (pMCAO) model has been evaluated with magnetic resonance imaging modalities under experimental conditions matching as close as possible those used in humans. Changes in the ipsilateral and contralateral cortex and striatum of cerebral blood flow (CBF) and volume (CBV), apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), and spin-spin relaxation time (T(2)), as well as total cortical and striatal infarct volumes, calculated from CBF, ADC, and T(2) maps, were determined starting 1 h up to 216 h post-pMCAO. The temporal evolution of the MRI parameters in this rat model was similar to that observed in humans. In particular, the ADC values were decreased for more than 3 days and returned back to baseline between 4 to 8 days, to increase by day 9 only. Thus the stroke pathology in this rat model develops at a similar pace as in stroke patients arguing against a fundamental difference in the mechanisms involved. The infarct volumes however develop differently in this rat model as they invariably increase over the first 48 h, while in humans the evolution of infarct volume is slower and more heterogeneous.
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- M Rudin
- Core Technology, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, CH-4002, Switzerland
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