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Research ArticleNEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDER IMAGING

Arterial Spin-Labeling MRI Identifies Abnormal Perfusion Metric at the Gray Matter/CSF Interface in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease

Abdelkader Mahammedi, Ates Fettahoglu, Jeremy J. Heit, Joanna M. Wardlaw and Greg Zaharchuk
American Journal of Neuroradiology June 2025, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A8682
Abdelkader Mahammedi
aFrom the Department of Radiology (A.M., A.F., J.J.H., G.Z.), Stanford University, Stanford, California
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Ates Fettahoglu
aFrom the Department of Radiology (A.M., A.F., J.J.H., G.Z.), Stanford University, Stanford, California
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Jeremy J. Heit
aFrom the Department of Radiology (A.M., A.F., J.J.H., G.Z.), Stanford University, Stanford, California
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Joanna M. Wardlaw
bCentre for Clinical Brain and Neuroimaging Sciences (J.M.W.), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Greg Zaharchuk
aFrom the Department of Radiology (A.M., A.F., J.J.H., G.Z.), Stanford University, Stanford, California
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