The Editors of AJNR are pleased to announce the annual Lucien Levy Best Research Article Award has been presented to:
Performance of Standardized Relative CBV for Quantifying Regional Histologic Tumor Burden in Recurrent High-Grade Glioma: Comparison against Normalized Relative CBV Using Image-Localized Stereotactic Biopsies by J.M. Hoxworth, J.M. Eschbacher, A.C. Gonzales, K.W. Singleton, G.D. Leon, K.A. Smith, A. Stokes, Y. Zhou, G.L. Mazza, A.B. Porter, M.M. Mrugala, R.S. Zimmerman, B.R. Bendok, D.P. Patra, C. Krishna, J.L. Boxerman, L.C. Baxter, K.R. Swanson, C.C. Quarles, K.M. Schmainda, and L.S. Hu.
This award is named for the late AJNR Senior Editor who championed its establishment and recognizes the best original research paper accepted in 2019. The winning paper was published electronically on March 12, 2020. It was selected by a vote of the Journal‘s Editor-in-Chief and Senior Editors.
Other nominated papers were:
A Method to Estimate Brain Volume from Head CT Images and Application to Detect Brain Atrophy in Alzheimer Disease by V. Adduru, S.A. Baum, C. Zhang, M. Helguera, R. Zand, M. Lichtenstein, C.J. Griessenauer, and A.M. Michael
Early Detection of Cancer: Evaluation of MRI Grading Systems in Patients with Suspected Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma by A.D. King, J.K.S. Woo, Q.-Y. Ai, F.K.F. Mo, T.Y. So, W.K.J. Lam, I.O.L. Tse, A.C. Vlantis, K.W.N. Yip, E.P. Hui, B.B.Y. Ma, R.W.K. Chiu, A.T.C. Chan, Y.M.D. Lo, and K.C.A. Cha
Defining Ischemic Core in Acute Ischemic Stroke Using CT Perfusion: A Multiparametric Bayesian-Based Model by K. Nael, E. Tadayon, D. Wheelwright, A. Metry, J.T. Fifi, S. Tuhrim, R.A. De Leacy, A.H. Doshi, H.L. Chang, and J. Mocco
Functional Connectivity Associated with Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Focal Epilepsy by H. Nawani, M.L. Smith, A.L. Wheeler, and E. Widjaja
Thrombectomy with Conscious Sedation Compared with General Anesthesia: A DEFUSE 3 Analysis by C.J. Powers, D. Dornbos III, M. Mlynash, D. Gulati, M. Torbey, S.M. Nimjee, M.G. Lansberg, G.W. Albers, and M.P. Marks
Large Neck and Strong Ostium Inflow as the Potential Causes for Delayed Occlusion of Unruptured Sidewall Intracranial Aneurysms Treated by Flow Diverter by T. Su, P. Reymond, O. Brina, P. Bouillot, P. Machi, B.M.A. Delattre, L. Jin, K.O. Lövblad, and M.I. Vargas
Ensemble of Convolutional Neural Networks Improves Automated Segmentation of Acute Ischemic Lesions Using Multiparametric Diffusion-Weighted MRI by S. Winzeck, S.J.T. Mocking, R. Bezerra, M.J.R.J. Bouts, E.C. McIntosh, I. Diwan, P. Garg, A. Chutinet, W.T. Kimberly, W.A. Copen, P.W. Schaefer, H. Ay, A.B. Singhal, K. Kamnitsas, B. Glocker, A.G. Sorensen, and O. Wu
