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PubMed: 37876299 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.29815

ASL lexicon and reporting recommendations: A consensus report from the ISMRM Open Science Initiative for Perfusion Imaging (OSIPI).

Magn Reson Med 91(5):1743-1760

Authors: Yuriko Suzuki, Patricia Clement, Weiying Dai, Sudipto Dolui, Maria A Fernández-Seara, Thomas Lindner, Henk J M M Mutsaerts, Jan Petr, Xingfeng Shao, Manuel Taso, David L Thomas

Affiliations

  • Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  • Department of Medical Imaging, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
  • Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
  • State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York, USA.
  • Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
  • Department of Radiology, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. IdiSNA, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
  • Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
  • Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Dresden, Germany.
  • Laboratory of FMRI Technology (LOFT), Mark & Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
  • Division of MRI Research, Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK.

Abstract

The 2015 consensus statement published by the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Perfusion Study Group and the European Cooperation in Science and Technology ( COST) Action ASL in Dementia aimed to encourage the implementation of robust arterial spin labeling (ASL) perfusion MRI for clinical applications and promote consistency across scanner types, sites, and studies. Subsequently, the recommended 3D pseudo-continuous ASL sequence has been implemented by most major MRI manufacturers. However, ASL remains a rapidly and widely developing field, leading inevitably to further divergence of the technique and its associated terminology, which could cause confusion and hamper research reproducibility. On behalf of the ISMRM Perfusion Study Group, and as part of the ISMRM Open Science Initiative for Perfusion Imaging (OSIPI), the ASL Lexicon Task Force has been working on the development of an ASL Lexicon and Reporting Recommendations for perfusion imaging and analysis, aiming to (1) develop standardized, consensus nomenclature and terminology for the broad range of ASL imaging techniques and parameters, as well as for the physiological constants required for quantitative analysis; and (2) provide a community-endorsed recommendation of the imaging parameters that we encourage authors to include when describing ASL methods in scientific reports/papers. In this paper, the sequences and parameters in (pseudo-)continuous ASL, pulsed ASL, velocity-selective ASL, and multi-timepoint ASL for brain perfusion imaging are included. However, the content of the lexicon is not intended to be limited to these techniques, and this paper provides the foundation for a growing online inventory that will be extended by the community as further methods and improvements are developed and established.

MeSH

Perfusion Imaging

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