Magnetic resonance imaging of cerebral blood flow in animal stroke models

Abstract

Perfusion could provide useful information on the metabolic status and functional status of tissues and organs. This review summarizes the most commonly used perfusion measurement methods: Dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) and arterial spin labeling (ASL) and their applications in experimental stroke. Some new developments of cerebral blood flow (CBF) techniques in animal models are also discussed.

Keywords

• Arterial spin labeling (ASL)
• dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC)
• functional MRI (fMRI)
• perfusion MRI