Rishma Vidyasagar1,
Laura M. Parkes1, Shivaram Avula2, Barry Pizer2,
Laurence Abernethy2
1Biomedical
Imaging Institute, School of Population Health, University of Manchester,
Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom; 2Alder Hey
Children's Hospital, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
DSC is a common technique used to ascertain measures of cerebral blood flow in a clinical setup. It is however an invasive technique and often restricts repeatable measures in an individual. The Look-Locker ASL sequence provides a non-invasive means of obtaining different measures of perfusion within the human brain at multiple timepoints. In this study we compare measures derived from DSC and ASL to investigate the feasibility of using a non-invasive ASL technique on patients with brain tumours.