About this Research Topic
This Research Topic is intended to attract manuscripts that advance the use of resting cerebral perfusion measures in clinical assessments of cerebrovascular health. In pursuit of this aim a better understanding of several aspects are needed.
To address these aspects, we encourage authors to focus on the following:
- methods of measuring cerebral perfusion measures: e. g. MRI sequences, clinical protocols, apparatus,
- the physiology involved in the cerebrovascular control and maintenance of resting blood flow and how this reflects vascular health – for example, how to identify collateral flow pathways,
- how to analyze resting perfusion data in different ways (e. g. hemodynamics, cerebral blood flow, kinetic modelling) to provide more rich information about vascular health in parameters that go beyond simply CBF,
- the use of resting perfusion measures to assess vascular health in various pathologies: e. g. steno occlusive disease, dementia, small vessel disease.
Topic Editor Dr. James Duffin works for and holds equity in Thornhill Medical Inc. (TMI), a for-profit biomedical manufacturing company that was spun off from the University of Toronto Heath Network (UHN). The Other Topic Editor declares no conflict of interest.
Keywords: Brain, Vasculature, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cerebral Perfusion, Vascular Physiology
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