Contrast Leakage Patterns from Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast Perfusion MRI in the Grading of Primary Pediatric Brain Tumors

Contrast Leakage Patterns from Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast Perfusion MRI in the Grading of Primary Pediatric Brain Tumors.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The pattern of contrast leakage from DSC tissue signal intensity time curves have shown utility in distinguishing adult brain neoplasms, but has limited description in the literature for pediatric brain tumors. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the utility of grading pediatric brain tumors with this technique. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective review of tissu...

Dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced perfusion MR Imaging of Brain Tumors

Dynamic susceptibility contrast perfusion MRI (with pitfalls)

Since the first studies in the late 1980s and early 1990s, dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI (DSC-MRI, also known as ‘bolus tracking’) has become a very powerful technique for the assessment of perfusion, and perfusion-related parameters (see (1,2) for recent reviews). Despite the need of an exogenous MR agent (cf. arterial spin labeling techniques), DSC-MRI is currently the most common MR pe...

Dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI

Introduction Quantitative dynamic susceptibility contrast perfusion MRI (DSC-MRI) is based on the monitoring of the first passage of a bolus of contrast agent through the brain tissue and a brain-feeding artery. The contrast agent is injected rapidly by means of an MRinjector in the antecubital vein in the patients arm and a saline flush is used to push the contrast agent into the direction of ...

Fetal brain during a binge drinking episode: a dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI fetal brain perfusion study.

We assessed the effects of a single episode of maternal alcohol intoxication on fetal brain blood perfusion in three pregnant dams (baboons) at the 24th week of pregnancy using dynamic susceptibility contrast magnetic resonance imaging. After the oral administration of alcohol, there was a four-fold increase in the peak contrast concentrations in the fetal brain. In addition, we observed a two-...