PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Wintermark, Max
AU  - Albers, Gregory W.
AU  - Alexandrov, Andrei V.
AU  - Alger, Jeffry R.
AU  - Bammer, Roland
AU  - Baron, Jean-Claude
AU  - Davis, Stephen
AU  - Demaerschalk, Bart M.
AU  - Derdeyn, Colin P.
AU  - Donnan, Geoffrey A.
AU  - Eastwood, James D.
AU  - Fiebach, Jochen B.
AU  - Fisher, Marc
AU  - Furie, Karen L.
AU  - Goldmakher, Gregory V.
AU  - Hacke, Werner
AU  - Kidwell, Chelsea S.
AU  - Kloska, Stephan P.
AU  - Köhrmann, Martin
AU  - Koroshetz, Walter
AU  - Lee, Ting-Yim
AU  - Lees, Kennedy R.
AU  - Lev, Michael H.
AU  - Liebeskind, David S.
AU  - Ostergaard, Leif
AU  - Powers, William J.
AU  - Provenzale, James
AU  - Schellinger, Peter
AU  - Silbergleit, Robert
AU  - Sorensen, Alma Gregory
AU  - Wardlaw, Joanna
AU  - Wu, Ona
AU  - Warach, Steven
TI  - Acute Stroke Imaging Research Roadmap
DP  - 2008 May 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - e23--e30
VI  - 29
IP  - 5
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/29/5/e23.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/29/5/e23.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.2008 May 01; 29
AB  - The recent “Advanced Neuroimaging for Acute Stroke Treatment” meeting on September 7 and 8, 2007 in Washington DC, brought together stroke neurologists, neuroradiologists, emergency physicians, neuroimaging research scientists, members of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), industry representatives, and members of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to discuss the role of advanced neuroimaging in acute stroke treatment. The goals of the meeting were to assess state-of-the-art practice in terms of acute stroke imaging research and to propose specific recommendations regarding: (1) the standardization of perfusion and penumbral imaging techniques, (2) the validation of the accuracy and clinical utility of imaging markers of the ischemic penumbra, (3) the validation of imaging biomarkers relevant to clinical outcomes, and (4) the creation of a central repository to achieve these goals. The present article summarizes these recommendations and examines practical steps to achieve them.