MRI-MR PERFUSION

SUMMARY

1.The amount of blood flowing into tissue can also be detected and relatively quantified, generating values such as cerebral blood volume, cerebral blood flow and mean transit time.

2.These values are useful in a number of clinical scenarios, including defining the ischaemic penumbra in ischaemic stroke, assessing histological grade of certain tumours, or distinguishing radionecrosis from tumour progression.



Image: Case courtesy of Craig Hacking, Radiopaedia.org. From the case rID: 70313.

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