In Acute Stroke, Can CT Perfusion-Derived Cerebral Blood Volume Maps Substitute for Diffusion-Weighted Imaging in Identifying the Ischemic Core?
Copen W, Morais L, Wu O, Schwamm L, Schaefer P, González R, Yoo A. In Acute Stroke, Can CT Perfusion-Derived Cerebral Blood Volume Maps Substitute for Diffusion-Weighted Imaging in Identifying the Ischemic Core? PLOS ONE 2015, 10: e0133566. PMID: 26193486, PMCID: PMC4508041, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133566.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsComputed tomography perfusion imagingDiffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imagingCerebral blood volumeInfarct volumeSensitivity/specificityCBV mapsDWI lesionsIschemic coreCore lesionsDWI-positive patientsRegional cerebral blood volumeAcute ischemic strokeFinal infarct volumeTreatment of patientsTomography perfusion imagingPresence of infarctionMagnetic resonance imagingDiffusion-weighted imagingAcute strokeIschemic strokeSymptom onsetLesion volumeIndividual patientsInter-rater agreementPatients