Editor’s Choice The authors performed consecutive pseudocontinuous arterial spin-labeling and phase-contrast MR imaging on 82 individuals (healthy young adults, healthy older adults, and older adults with cerebral small vessel disease or chronic stroke infarcts) and examined associations between extracranial phase-contrast
Editor’s Choice Both dynamic susceptibility contrast perfusion with bookend T1-calibration and pseudocontinuous arterial spin-labeling have been used recently for CBF quantification in relapsing-remitting MS. The authors compared pseudocontinuous arterial spin-labeling CBF with the bookend technique in a prospective cohort of
Editor’s Choice The authors evaluated 15 children treated by indirect cerebral revascularization with multiple burr-holes between 2011–2013. Arterial spin-labeling MR imaging and T1 sequences were analyzed under SPM8 before and after the operation (3 and 12 months). Group analysis showed
Editor’s Choice Editor’s Comment Forty-one patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma were evaluated by using pseudocontinuous ASL. Quantitative tumor blood flow was calculated at the pretreatment and the early treatment periods. Pretreatment tumor blood flow in patients in
Editor’s Choice Editor’s Comment The authors retrospectively reviewed patients treated between 2007–2010 and identified 14 patients with cerebral metastasis who had clinical or radiographic progression following stereotactic radiosurgery and were imaged with arterial spin-labeling (ASL), FDG-PET, and thallium SPECT before
Guest Editor Karl-Olof Lövblad Geneva University Hospitals, Neurodiagnostic and Neurointerventional Service, Geneva, Switzerland Summary This edition focuses on clinical applications of arterial spin-labeling (ASL). ASL has been available for a number of years, with little initial fanfare despite its potential
Editor’s Choice Editor’s Comments In healthy controls and 43 patients with mild cognitive impairment, 2 pulsed ASL sequences were performed at 3T: proximal inversion with a control for off-resonance effects (PICORE) and the flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery technique (FAIR). FAIR
Editor’s Choices Perfusion Deficits Detected by Arterial Spin-Labeling in Patients with TIA with Negative Diffusion and Vascular Imaging • X.J. Qiao, N. Salamon, D.J.J. Wang, R. He, M. Linetsky, B.M. Ellingson, and W.B. Pope The current definition of TIA calls for
