Harnessing Neuroimaging Capability in Pediatric Stroke: Proceedings of the Stroke Imaging Laboratory for Children Workshop

Nomazulu Dlamini; Max Wintermark; Heather Fullerton; Stephen Strother; Wayne Lee; Bruce Bjornson; Kristin P Guilliams; Steven Miller; Adam Kirton; Christopher G Filippi; Alexandra Linds; Rand Askalan; Gabrielle deVeber

doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2017.01.006

Harnessing Neuroimaging Capability in Pediatric Stroke: Proceedings of the Stroke Imaging Laboratory for Children Workshop

Pediatr Neurol. 2017 Apr:69:3-10. doi: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2017.01.006. Epub 2017 Jan 25.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Division of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: nomazulu.dlamini@sickkids.ca.
² Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
³ Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
⁴ Department of Medical Biophysics, Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Division of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Developmental Neurosciences and Child Health, Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁷ Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Neurology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri; Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
⁸ Department of Pediatrics, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
⁹ Department of Radiology, Northwell Health, Manhasset, New York; Department of Neurology, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, Vermont.

PMID: 28259513
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2017.01.006

Abstract

On June 5, 2015 the International Pediatric Stroke Study and the Stroke Imaging Laboratory for Children cohosted a unique workshop focused on developing neuroimaging research in pediatric stroke. Pediatric neurologists, neuroradiologists, interventional neuroradiologists, physicists, nurse practitioners, neuropsychologists, and imaging research scientists from around the world attended this one-day meeting. Our objectives were to (1) establish a group of experts to collaborate in advancing pediatric neuroimaging for stroke, (2) develop consensus clinical and research magnetic resonance imaging protocols for pediatric stroke patients, and (3) develop imaging-based research strategies in pediatric ischemic stroke. This article provides a summary of the meeting proceedings focusing on identified challenges and solutions and outcomes from the meeting. Further details on the workshop contents and outcomes are provided in three additional articles in the current issue of Pediatric Neurology.

Keywords: MRI; cerebrovascular reactivity; diffusion; neuroimaging; pediatric; perfusion; stroke.

Publication types

Consensus Development Conference
Editorial

MeSH terms

Animals
Brain / diagnostic imaging*
Child
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods
Neuroimaging* / methods
Pediatrics
Stroke / diagnostic imaging*