Rapid mri analysis may speed up selection for tpa therapy

Access through your institution Buy or subscribe > ...RAPID-generated images could be used to ... standardize the > selection of patients for reperfusion therapy... RAPID, an automated

image-analysis program, can calculate stroke lesion volumes from diffusion-weighted and perfusion-weighted MRI (DWI and PWI) within 10 min and without requiring operator input. “These

features make RAPID an attractive tool for patient selection in acute stroke trials,” report Maarten Lansberg and colleagues in _Stroke._ Specifically, RAPID-generated images could be used

to speed up and standardize the selection of patients for reperfusion therapy: “RAPID processing of a baseline MRI ... has the potential to determine whether a patient is a good candidate to

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Read our FAQs * Contact customer support ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPER * Lansberg, M. G. _ et al_. RAPID automated patient selection for reperfusion therapy: a pooled analysis of the Echoplanar

Imaging Thrombolytic Evaluation Trial (EPITHET) and the Diffusion and Perfusion Imaging Evaluation for Understanding Stroke Evolution (DEFUSE) study. _Stroke_

doi:10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.609008 Article  Google Scholar  Download references Authors * Vanisha Parekh View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar

RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Parekh, V. RAPID MRI analysis may speed up selection for tPA therapy. _Nat Rev Neurol_ 7, 300 (2011).

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