In vivo measurement of changes in venous blood-oxygenation with high resolution functional MRI at 0.95 Tesla by measuring changes in susceptibility and velocity

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 97-107

  Hoogenraad, Frank G C ^a,d   Reichenbach, Jürgen R ^b   Haacke, E Mark ^b   Lai, Song ^c   Kuppusamy, Karthikeyan ^b   Sprenger, Michiel ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Flow measurements; FMRI; Oxygenation measurements; Susceptibility measurements

Indexed keywords

FLOW MEASUREMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; OXYGEN; OXYGENATION;

ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FMRI; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; IN-VIVO MEASUREMENT; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGENATION LEVELS; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; SUSCEPTIBILITY MEASUREMENTS;

BLOOD;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN SATURATION; PIA MATER; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 0031964944     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910390116     Document Type: Article

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