Assessment of Regional Cerebral Blood Volume in Acute Human Stroke by Use of Single-Slice Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Abstract

DSC-MRI accomplished the detection of the ischemic territory in the very early stage (< 6 hours) before SE-MRI delivered unequivocal results. DSC-MRI might be helpful to discriminate completely ischemic tissue from potentially salvageable ischemic parenchyma at risk and may play an important role in stroke therapy and evaluation.