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2 - Dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI: acquisition and analysis techniques

from Section 1 - Techniques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2013

By
Matthias J. P. van Osch
Edited by
Peter B. Barker ,
Xavier Golay  and
Gregory Zaharchuk
Peter B. Barker
Affiliation:
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Xavier Golay
Affiliation:
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London
Gregory Zaharchuk
Affiliation:
Stanford University Medical Center
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Introduction

From the early start in history man employed “contrast media” to measure flow: Hero of Alexandria proposed for example in 62 AD the use of debris in combination with a sundial to calculate the velocity of the water in Egyptian rivers. Leonardo da Vinci improved this method by using a pig's bladder attached to a stick with a stone on the other side. Early implementations to measure cerebral blood flow similarly introduced a tracer upstream from the brain, such as nitrous oxide or xenon gas. Even before these early blood flow measurements, functional brain experiments were introduced by monitoring changes in brain volume upon functional activity as an indicator and proof of vasodilatation [1]. It is therefore not surprising that when contrast agents for MRI based on gadolinium chelates were introduced, blood flow measurements were among the first applications. Interestingly, in 1990, for the first time the possibility of localization of neuronal activation was shown using repeated injections of a bolus of contrast agent [2], two years before the BOLD (blood oxygenation level-dependent) effect emerged as the prime tool for functional MRI (fMRI) [3].

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Clinical Perfusion MRI
Techniques and Applications
 , pp. 16 - 37
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2013

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