Open AccessAccuracy and Anatomical Coverage of Perfusion CT Assessment of the Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability: One Bolus versus Two Boluses
Author(s) -
Jan Willem Dankbaar,
Jason Hom,
Thomas Schneider,
Su–Chun Cheng,
Benison C. Lau,
Irene van der Schaaf,
Sunny Virmani,
Scott Pohlman,
William P. Dillon,
Max Wintermark
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
cerebrovascular diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1421-9786
pISSN - 1015-9770
DOI - 10.1159/000165113
Subject(s) - medicine , bolus (digestion) , perfusion , perfusion scanning , blood–brain barrier , anesthesia , nuclear medicine , radiology , central nervous system
To assess whether blood-brain barrier permeability (BBBP) values, extracted with the Patlak model from the second perfusion CT (PCT) contrast bolus, are significantly lower than the values extracted from the first bolus in the same patient.