title: ASFNR recommendations for clinical performance of MR dynamic susceptibility contrast perfusion imaging of the brain.
abstract: MR perfusion imaging is becoming an increasingly common means of evaluating a variety of cerebral pathologies, including tumors and ischemia. In particular, there has been great interest in the use of MR perfusion imaging for both assessing brain tumor grade and for monitoring for tumor recurrence in previously treated patients. Of the various techniques devised for evaluating cerebral perfusion imaging, the dynamic susceptibility contrast method has been employed most widely among clinical MR imaging practitioners. However, when implementing DSC MR perfusion imaging in a contemporary radiology practice, a neuroradiologist is confronted with a large number of decisions. These include choices surrounding appropriate patient selection, scan-acquisition parameters, data-postprocessing methods, image interpretation, and reporting. Throughout the imaging literature, there is conflicting advice on these issues. In an effort to provide guidance to neuroradiologists struggling to implement DSC perfusion imaging in their MR imaging practice, the Clinical Practice Committee of the American Society of Functional Neuroradiology has provided the following recommendations. This guidance is based on review of the literature coupled with the practice experience of the authors. While the ASFNR acknowledges that alternate means of carrying out DSC perfusion imaging may yield clinically acceptable results, the following recommendations should provide a framework for achieving routine success in this complicated-but-rewarding aspect of neuroradiology MR imaging practice.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Radiology (K.W., T.K.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota welker.kirk@mayo.edu.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Welker
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Imaging (J.B.), Rhode Island Hospital and Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Boxerman
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology (A.K.), Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
authors.forename: A
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8850-4809
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kalnin
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Radiology (K.W., T.K.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kaufmann
authors.affiliation: Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology (M.S.), Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shiroishi
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Neuroradiology Section (M.W.), Stanford University, Stanford, California.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wintermark
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D059906:Neuroimaging / Q000379:methods*; D009462:Neurology / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D055420:Perfusion Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D011871:Radiology / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*