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Submitted on May 12, 2008
Accepted on May 12, 2008

Use of MRI to Estimate the Therapeutic Window in Acute Stroke. Is Perfusion-Weighted Imaging/Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Mismatch an EPITHET for Salvageable Ischemic Brain Tissue?

Gabor Toth MD and Gregory W. Albers MD^*

From the Stanford Stroke Center, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, Calif.

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: albers{at}stanford.edu.

Key words: diffusion-weighted MRI • perfusion-weighted MRI • ischemic penumbra • EPITHET study