'Trapped labelled spins'-related signal on arterial spin labelling in the assessment of flow-diverted aneurysms: preliminary experience

Autor: Hima Pendharkar, Dwarakanath Srinivas, Sameer Peer, Jitender Saini, Shamick Biswas, Arvinda Hanumanthapura Ramalingaiah, Chandrajit Prasad, Karthik Kulanthaivelu, Arun Kumar Gupta
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: NeuroradiologyReferences. 64(1)
ISSN: 1432-1920
Popis: To investigate ASL-MRI features of flow-diverted aneurysms, review their haemodynamic surrogates, and discuss their pertinent clinical implications. Retrospective single institutional analysis was performed on the clinical and imaging data of patients who underwent digital subtraction angiography (DSA) and ASL-MRI after endovascular flow diversion for cerebral aneurysms. Pseudo-continuous ASL-MRI was performed with post-label delays of 1525–1800 ms. Intra-aneurysmal “trapped labelled spins” (TLS)-related hypersignal, as seen on cerebral blood flow (CBF)-weighted maps of ASL-MRI, was investigated. Intermodality equivalence with DSA [O'Kelly-Marotta (OKM) grading for occlusion], 3D-TOF-MRA, and 3D spin-echo T1-weighted (“black-blood”) images was assessed. Ten cases were included. “TLS” signal was demonstrable in 7/8 (87.5%) of the DSA-visible flow-diverted aneurysms (OKM grade B3, n = 6; OKM grade A3, n = 2). No TLS was seen in both OKM-D (excluded) aneurysms. TLS was not visualised in an OKM-B3 aneurysm with
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