European Journal of Radiology
Volume 61, Issue 1 , Pages 70-78 , January 2007

Delayed perfusion phenomenon in a rat stroke model at 1.5T MR: An imaging sign parallel to spontaneous reperfusion and ischemic penumbra?

  • Feng Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University Hospitals, Catholic University of Leuven, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
    • Department of Radiology, Zhong Da Hospital, Southeast University, 87 Ding Jia Qiao Road, Nanjing 210009, Jiangsu Province, China
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  • Yasuhiro Suzuki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Leuven, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
    • Department of Pharmacology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, 431-3192 Hamamatsu, Japan
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  • Nobuo Nagai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Leuven, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
    • ,
  • Xihe Sun

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University Hospitals, Catholic University of Leuven, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
    • Department of Radiology, the Affiliated Hospital of Weifang Medical University, Weifang 261031, Shandong Province, China
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  • Walter Coudyzer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University Hospitals, Catholic University of Leuven, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
    • ,
  • Jie Yu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University Hospitals, Catholic University of Leuven, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
    • ,
  • Guy Marchal

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University Hospitals, Catholic University of Leuven, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
    • ,
  • Yicheng Ni

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University Hospitals, Catholic University of Leuven, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +32 16 345940; fax: +32 16 343765.

Received 14 June 2006 ,Revised 14 August 2006 ,Accepted 16 August 2006.

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PII: S0720-048X(06)00355-X

doi: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2006.08.019

European Journal of Radiology
Volume 61, Issue 1 , Pages 70-78 , January 2007

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