Negative fluid‐attenuated inversion recovery imaging identifies acute ischemic stroke at 3 hours or less

o evaluate the use of fluid‐attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) imaging as surrogate marker of lesion age within the first 6 hours of ischemic stroke.

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