Regional Reproducibility of Pulsed Arterial Spin Labeling Perfusion Imaging at 3T

Overview

Journal Neuroimage

Specialty Radiology

Date 2010 Aug 31

PMID 20800097

Citations 47

Authors

Yang Wang

Andrew J Saykin

Josef Pfeuffer

Chen Lin

Kristine M Mosier

Li Shen

Sungeun Kim

Gary D Hutchins

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Abstract

Arterial spin labeling (ASL) is a promising non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique for measuring regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) or perfusion in vivo. To evaluate the feasibility of ASL as a biomarker for clinical trials, it is important to examine test-retest reproducibility. We investigated both inter- and intra-session reproducibility of perfusion MRI using a pulsed ASL (PASL) sequence PICORE Q2TIPS with an echo-planar imaging (EPI) readout. Structural MRI regions of interest (ROIs) were extracted individually by automated parcellation and segmentation methods using FreeSurfer. These cortical and subcortical ROIs were used to assess regional perfusion stability. Our results indicated regional variability in grey matter rCBF. Although rCBF measurements were characterized by intersubject variation, our results also indicated relatively less within-subject variability estimated as within-subject standard deviation (SD(W)) (intersession SD(W): 2.0 to 8.8; intrasession SD(W): 2.8 to 9.6) and acceptable reliabilities as measured using intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) (intersession ICC: 0.68 to 0.94; intrasession ICC: 0.66 to 0.95) for regional MRI perfusion measurements using the PICORE Q2TIPS technique. Overall, our findings suggest that PASL is a technique with good within and between session reproducibility. Further reproducibility studies in target populations relevant for specific clinical trials of neurovascular related agents will be important and the present results provide a framework for such assessments.

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