Intracranial Mass Lesions: Dynamic Contrast-enhanced Susceptibility-weighted Echo-planar Perfusion MR Imaging
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- 1 April 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology
- Vol. 223 (1), 11-29
- https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2231010594
Abstract
Dynamic contrast agent–enhanced perfusion magnetic resonance (MR) imaging provides physiologic information that complements the anatomic information available with conventional MR imaging. Analysis of dynamic data from perfusion MR imaging, based on tracer kinetic theory, yields quantitative estimates of cerebral blood volume that reflect the underlying microvasculature and angiogenesis. Perfusion MR imaging is a fast and robust imaging technique that is increasingly used as a research tool to help evaluate and understand intracranial disease processes and as a clinical tool to help diagnose, manage, and understand intracranial mass lesions. With the increasing number of applications of perfusion MR imaging, it is important to understand the principles underlying the technique. In this review, the essential underlying physics and methods of dynamic contrast-enhanced susceptibility-weighted echo-planar perfusion MR imaging are described. The clinical applications of cerebral blood volume maps obtained with...This publication has 81 references indexed in Scilit:
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