MRI study of immediate cell viability in focused ultrasound lesions in the rabbit brain

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Pulse sequence and timing of contrast-enhanced MRI for assessing blood–brain barrier disruption after transcranial focused ultrasound in the presence of hemorrhage

✍ Jun-Cheng Weng; Sheng-Kai Wu; Feng-Yi Yang; Win-Li Lin; Wen-Yih Isaac Tseng 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 556 KB

## Abstract ## Purpose: To optimize the timing of contrast‐enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that best indicates blood–brain barrier (BBB) disruption induced by focused ultrasound (FUS) along with an ultrasound contrast agent (UCA) and to verify that the contrast‐enhanced spin‐echo MRI seq