In patients with suspected acute stroke, CT perfusion-based cerebral blood flow maps cannot substitute for DWI in measuring the ischemic core

• William A. Copen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wcopen@partners.org

  Affiliations Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6140-192X

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• Albert J. Yoo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Neurointervention, Texas Stroke Institute, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

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• Natalia S. Rost,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Lívia T. Morais,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Pamela W. Schaefer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• R. Gilberto González,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ona Wu

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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