High resolution measurement of cerebral blood flow using intravascular tracer bolus passages. Part I: Mathematical approach and statistical analysis

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 715-725

  Østergaard, Leif ^b   Weisskoff, Robert M ^a   Chesler, David A ^a   Gyldensted, Garsten ^b   Rosen, Bruce R ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

cerebral blood flow (CBF); dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); nonparametric deconvolution; susceptibility contrast

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BLOOD; ESTIMATION; HEMODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PIXELS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; TRACERS;

CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; DYNAMIC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI); DYNAMIC MEASUREMENT; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; HIGH-RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; MATHEMATICAL APPROACH; NON-PARAMETRIC DECONVOLUTION;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THEORY;

EID: 0029907308     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910360510     Document Type: Article

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