Published online before print May 8, 2003, doi: 10.1161/01.STR.0000072998.70087.E9
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(Stroke. 2003;34:1425.)
© 2003 American Heart Association, Inc.
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Perfusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging Thresholds Identifying Core, Irreversibly Infarcted Tissue
From the UCLA Stroke Center (L.C.S., J.L.S., J.R.A., S.S., M.C.L., F.V., G.D., R.J., J.P.V., P.M.V., C.S.K.), Department of Neurology (J.L.S., S.S., M.C.L., P.M.V., C.S.K.), Department of Radiological Sciences (J.R.A., F.V., G.D., R.J., J.P.V.), Department of Emergency Medicine (S.S.), and Department of Neurosurgery (P.M.V.), UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, Calif, and Department of Radiology, New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical College (Y.P.G.), New York.
Reprint requests to Ludy Shih, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave, Deaconess Building 300, Boston, MA 02215. E-mail lshih{at}caregroup.harvard.edu
Background and Purpose— Identifying core, irreversibly infarcted tissue and salvageable penumbral tissue is crucial to informed, physiologically guided decision making regarding thrombolytic and other interventional therapies in acute ischemic stroke. Pretreatment perfusion MRI offers promise as a means to differentiate core from penumbral tissues.
Methods— Diffusion-perfusion MRIs were performed before treatment and on day 7 in patients undergoing successful vessel recanalization with intra-arterial thrombolytic therapy. Perfusion maps of the time to peak of the residue function (Tmax) were generated after deconvolution of an arterial input function. Initial perfusion abnormalities and final infarct regions were outlined by hand. Posttreatment images were coregistered to the pretreatment study. Voxel-by-voxel and volume analyses were performed to identify thresholds of perfusion abnormalities that best predict core, irreversibly infarcted tissue.
Results— Fourteen patients (4 men, 10 women) with vessel recanalization were studied. Mean age was 73 years, and median entry National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score was 12. Mean time from symptom onset to start of intra-arterial infusion was 245 minutes and to recanalization was 338 minutes. With a voxel-by-voxel analysis, Tmax 
6 and 8 seconds (sensitivity, 71% and 53%; specificity, 63% and 80%) correlated most highly with day 7 final infarct. With a volume analysis, Tmax 6 and 8 seconds (r2=0.704 and r2=0.705) correlated most highly with day 7 final infarct.
Conclusions— Perfusion-weighted imaging measures of ischemia severity accurately differentiate irreversibly injured core from penumbral, salvageable tissue. The best threshold for identifying core infarcted tissue is adjusted Tmax of 6 to 8 seconds.
Key Words: magnetic resonance imaging, perfusion-weighted • stroke, acute • stroke, ischemic • thrombolysis
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