Cerebral blood flow measurement by dynamic contrast MRI using singular value decomposition with an adaptive threshold

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 167-172

  Liu, Ho Ling ^a   Pu, Yonglin ^a   Liu, Yijun ^a   Nickerson, Lisa ^a   Andrews, Trevor ^a   Fox, Peter T ^a   Gao, Jia Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; MRI; Perfusion; Singular value decomposition

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PIXELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDS; CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; CONCENTRATION-TIME; DECONVOLUTION TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE PERFUSIONS; MAXIMUM CONCENTRATIONS; PERFUSION; THRESHOLDING METHODS;

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0032793622     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199907)42:1<167::AID-MRM22>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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