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Fifty-eight patients with pathologically confirmed gliomas underwent preoperative 3D pseudocontinuous arterial spin-labeling and ROC curves were generated for parameters to distinguish high-grade from low-grade gliomas. Both maximum CBF and maximum relative CBF were significantly higher in high-grade than in low-grade gliomas. After adjustment for age, a higher maximum CBF and higher maximum relative CBF were associated with worse progression-free survival.

The authors compared the diagnostic concordance of vessel imaging using 3D-TOF-MRA and DSA in 85 patients with primary central nervous system vasculitis. Among the 25 patients with abnormal DSA findings, 24 demonstrated abnormal 3D-TOF-MRA findings, whereas all 6 remaining patients with normal DSA findings had normal 3D-TOF-MRA findings. They conclude that 3D-TOF-MRA shows a high concordance with DSA in diagnostic performance when analyzing vasculature in patients with primary central nervous system vasculitis and that with negative 3T 3D-TOF-MRA findings, the added diagnostic value of DSA is limited.