Marjorie Villien1,
2, Do Kien N Guyen1, Julien Bouvier1, Cedric
Mendoza3, Sylvie Grand3, Louise Fanchon1,
Emmanuel Luc Barbier4, Irne Troprs5, Jean-Franois Le
Bas3, Alexandre Krainik3, Jan M. Warnking1
1Grenoble
Institut of Neurosciences, INSERM, Grenoble, France; 2Massachusetts
General Hospital, Harvard, Charlestown, MA, United States; 3Clinique
universitaire de neuroradiologie et d'IRM, CHU Grenoble, Grenoble, France; 4Grenoble
Institut of Neurosciences, INSERM U836, Grenoble, France; 5SFR1,
Universit Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
The goals of this study were to assess the reproducibility of Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast (DSC) MRI and Perfusion-CT (PCT) and to compare the CBF estimates obtained with DSC, PCT, and Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL). We included patients with cerebral tumor, routinely monitored with these imaging methods. We observed good agreement between DSC and PCT, and poor correlation between DSC and ASL. A more detailed analysis of the present data could yield insights into the respective strengths and weaknesses of each method depending on the vascular properties.
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