Determination of arterial input function using fuzzy clustering for quantification of cerebral blood flow with dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced MR imaging

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 797-806

  Murase, Kenya ^a   Kikuchi, Keiichi ^a   Miki, Hitoshi ^b   Shimizu, Teruhiko ^b   Ikezoe, Junpei ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arterial input function; Cerebral blood flow; Dynamic susceptibility contrast enhanced MR imaging; Fuzzy c means clustering; Quantification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFACTS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FUZZY LOGIC; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0035037806     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.1111     Document Type: Article

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