Inversion profiles of adiabatic inversion pulses for flowing spins: The effects on labeling efficiency and labeling accuracy in perfusion imaging with pulsed arterial spin-labeling

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 487-494

  Zhan, Wang ^a   Gu, Hong ^a   Silbersweig, David A ^a   Stern, Emily ^a   Yang, Yihong ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic pulse; Arterial spin labeling; Inversion profile; Perfusion imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEASUREMENT; MOTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; HEMORHEOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 0036660527     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(02)00525-8     Document Type: Article

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