[skadamou]

Pretty cool! Would love to have been able to read the methods to figure out how their imaging can resolve if the blood brain barrier is ‘open’

[alvarezbjm-hn]

The blood brain barrier is not a membrane, like the meninges (dura, pia, arach, etc) It is the way that molecules are "filtered" by the endothelium before going out of the bloodstream. I would Guess you can use contrast that would normally not cross the barrier to judge its permeability

[anecdotal1]

Thank you for this concise explanation. I feel like every time the term BBB comes up nobody really knows how it works and I've never taken the time to research