A strategy to optimize the signal-to-noise ratio in one-coil arterial spin tagging perfusion imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 563-568

  Hao, Lei ^a   Peeling, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arterial spin tagging; Cerebral perfusion; MR perfusion imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ARTERIAL SPIN; CEREBRAL PERFUSION; GRADIENT STRENGTH; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER; MR PERFUSION IMAGING; PERFUSION IMAGES; PERFUSION IMAGING; RADIO-FREQUENCY COIL;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIODENSITOMETRY; RADIOFREQUENCY; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIN LABELING;

EID: 0344629266     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2594(199903)41:3<563::AID-MRM20>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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