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Proton Spectroscopic Imaging in Cerebral Ischaemia Where we Stand and What Can be Expected

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Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery

Part of the book series: Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery ((NEUROSURGERY,volume 19))

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Cerebrovascular research is traditionally focused on the effects of changes in blood flow on neurological function. With the improvement of technical developments it became possible to correlate local cerebral blood flow (CBF) with focal neurological deficits. From local CBF measurement we learned that perfusion above the threshold of 20 ml/100 mg/min does not always mean that metabolism and function are still intact. Over the past ten years research interest in cerebral ischaemia showed a gradual shift towards cellular biology and pathophysiology. Changes in brain metabolism were considered to be more important than differences in blood flow. The development of new techniques in vitro and in vivo allowed to investigate many different aspects of cellular metabolism. Positron emission tomography was the first in vivo technique which proved that it was possible to obtain regional metabolic information with an acceptable local resolution. Nuclear magnetic resonance, which was introduced in medical research only fifteen years ago, has become a major tropic in brain research. Actually it has become an entire research field with many aspects, including imaging, angiography, and CBF-, energy metabolism-, and intracellular pH-measurement. Several brain metabolites, among which lactate (Berkelbach v. d. Sprenkel 1988 a), can be studied in vivo with proton nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRS).

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    J. W. Berkelbach van der Sprenkel, N. M. J. Knufman, P. C. van Rijen & C. A. F. Tulleken

  2. Philips Medical Systems, DA Best, The Netherlands

    P. R. Luyten

  3. Centre for NmR Research development, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA

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Berkelbach van der Sprenkel, J.W., Knufman, N.M.J., van Rijen, P.C., Luyten, P.R., den Hollander, J.A., Tulleken, C.A.F. (1992). Proton Spectroscopic Imaging in Cerebral Ischaemia Where we Stand and What Can be Expected. In: Symon, L., et al. Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery. Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery, vol 19. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6672-7_1

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