Funding Agency:

National Institute of Health

Total Project Period:

06/01/07-05/31/08

Total Project Award:

$23,738

Principal Investigator:

Edwin Nemoto, PhD
(Radiology)

Co-Investigator:

Yuefang Chang, PhD

Project Summary:

The overall aim of this quantitative, positron emission tomography (PET)-based stroke outcome study on symptomatic patients with carotid occlusive vascular disease (OVD) is to determine whether patients identified in hemodymnamic compromise by cerebrovascular reserce (CVR) (threshold, 10%) but with normal OEF (threshold, 50% remain at incresed risk for new clinical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based stroke.