Effect of vascular crushing on FAIR perfusion kinetics, using a BIR-4 pulse in a magnetization prepared FLASH sequence

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 608-613

  Schepers, Janneke ^a,c   Van Osch, Matthias J P ^a   Nicolay, Klaas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arterial spin labeling; Cerebral blood flow; FAIR; Flow crushing

Indexed keywords

CRUSHERS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHANTOMS; RATS;

ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; FAIR; FAIR SEQUENCES; FLOW SENSITIVE ALTERNATING INVERSION RECOVERIES; PERFUSION IMAGING; REPETITION TIME; TIME DEPENDENT;

CRUSHING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION; PHANTOM; RAT; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPIN LABELING; TIME;

EID: 0041337031     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.10571     Document Type: Article

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