Abstract #1945

Discrimination of Alzheimers Disease from Cognitively Healthy Individuals: An Arterial Spin Labeling MRI Study

Mike P. Wattjes¹, Nelleke Tolboom², Menno Schoonheim¹, Jose Maria Garcia-Santos¹, Joost P. Kuijer¹, Bart N. M. van Berckel³, Philip Scheltens², Frederik Barkhof¹, Ernesto J. Sanz-Arigita¹

¹Dept. of Radiology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands; ²Dept. of Neurology, VU University Medical Center; ³Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, VU University Medical Center

These specific perfusion patterns measured by ASL-MRI suggest fundamental differences in the brain perfusion between AD patients and cognitively healthy subjects and could contribution to the diagnoses of AD-related dementia.