TY - JOUR T1 - Metabolic Imaging of Ischemic Stroke: The Present and Future JF - American Journal of Neuroradiology JO - Am. J. Neuroradiol. DO - 10.3174/ajnr.A3789 AU - K.A. Dani AU - S. Warach Y1 - 2014/04/10 UR - http://www.ajnr.org/content/early/2014/04/03/ajnr.A3789.abstract N2 - SUMMARY: Measures of cerebral metabolism may be useful in the selection of patients for reperfusion therapies and as end points in clinical trials. However, there are currently no clinically routine techniques that provide such data directly. We review how imaging modalities in current clinical use may provide surrogate markers of metabolic activity. Promising techniques for metabolic imaging that are currently in the pipeline are reviewed. Abbreviations MR-COMIcerebral oxygen metabolic indexCMRO2cerebral metabolic rate for oxygenOCIoxygen challenge imagingOEFoxygen extraction fraction ER -