Bhaswati Roy1, Vimal
Paliwal2, Puneet Goel3, Siddhant Kumar1, Ram
Kishan Singh Rathore4, Sanjay Verma4, Rakesh Kumar
Gupta1
1Department of
Radiodiagnosis, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences,
Lucknow, India, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; 2 Department of
Neurology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences,
Lucknow, India, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; 3Department of
Anaesthesiology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences,
Lucknow, India, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; 4Department of
Mathematics & Statistics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Kanpur,
Uttar Pradesh, India
We report significantly increased CBF in 12 children with cerebral palsy in certain white matter regions which was associated with decrease in FA. Significant inverse correlation observed between FA and CBF values suggests that CBF increase in these abnormal FA regions is an attempt by the body to improve neuronal plasticity. We conclude that ASL based CBF may be used as non invasive marker of brain plasticity in future.
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