Model of the human vasculature for studying the influence of contrast injection speed on cerebral perfusion MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 614-622

  Van Osch, Matthias J P ^a,b   Vonken, Evert Jan P A ^a   Wu, Ona ^a   Viergever, Max A ^a   Van der Grond, Jeroen ^a   Bakker, Chris J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Cerebral blood volume; Contrast agent injection; Perfusion MRI; Simulations

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; HEMODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY;

CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; CEREBRAL BLOOD VOLUME; CONTRAST AGENT; PERFUSION MRI; SIMULATIONS;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INJECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PROCESS MODEL; SIMULATION;

EID: 0041837657     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.10567     Document Type: Article

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