Analysis of input functions from different arterial branches with gamma variate functions and cluster analysis for quantitative blood volume measurements

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1235-1243

  Rausch, M ^a   Scheffler, K ^b   Rudin, M ^c   Radu E W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Blood volume; Brain; Cluster analysis; Contrast agent

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOTERIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0034491759     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(00)00219-8     Document Type: Article

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