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SUBMITTER: Calamante F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4821017 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 20150930 4
The percentage blood volume occupied by red blood cells is known as haematocrit. While it is straightforward to measure haematocrit in large arteries, it is very challenging to do it in microvasculature (cerebral haematocrit). Currently, this can only be done using invasive methods (e.g. PET), but their use is very limited. Local variations in cerebral haematocrit have been reported in various brain abnormalities (e.g. stroke, tumours). We propose a new approach to image cerebral haematocrit usi ...[more]