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The authors evaluated 62 consecutive patients with ischemic stroke with proven vessel occlusion with MRI before and within 24 hours of treatment and defined a hypoperfusion intensity ratio (volume with severe/mild hypoperfusion [time-to-maximum ≥ 8 seconds / time-to-maximum ≥ 2 seconds]). Patients with extensive hyperintense vessels on FLAIR (>4 sections) had higher NIHSS scores, larger baseline lesion volumes, higher rates of perfusion-diffusion mismatch, and more severe hypoperfusion intensity ratio.

Thirty-five attending-level raters evaluated 14 brain tumors involving the frontoparietal convexity. Raters identified the location of the foot motor homunculus and determined whether the tumor involved the foot motor area and/or motor cortex by using anatomic MR imaging. Seventy-seven percent of the time raters correctly identified whether the tumor was in the foot motor cortex. Raters with fMRI experience were significantly better than raters without experience at foot motor fMRI centroid predictions.