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Abstract #0212

Cerebral Blood Flow using pCASL MRI and Phase Contrast Angiography in a Large Cohort

Sudipto Dolui 1 , Raghav Mattay 2 , Ze Wang 3 , Mack Finkel 4 , Alex Smith 2 , Mark Elliott 2 , Lisa Desiderio 2 , Ben Inglis 5 , Bryon Mueller 6 , Danny J.J. Wang 7 , Lenore J. Launer 8 , Robert Kramer 8 , R. Nick Bryan 2 , and John A. Detre 9

1 Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 2 Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 3 Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 4 Germantown Friends School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 5 Department of Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States, 6 Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 7 Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States, 8 Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 9 Departments of Neurology and Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

We compared whole brain cerebral blood flow (CBF) measurements obtained using pCASL MRI and phase contrast angiography (PCA) measurements in a large cohort of 544 subjects from the CARDIA study. CBF values showed highly significant correlations throughout the velocity range, providing no suggestion that pCASL labeling efficiency drops at higher mean arterial velocities. There was also considerable individual variability between CBF measured by pCASL versus PCA, suggesting that PCA-based CBF calibration of pCASL labeling efficiency may not be justified at the single subject level.

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