Normal Cerebral Perfusion Measurements Using Arterial Spin Labeling: Reproducibility, Stability, and Age and Gender Effects

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 736-743

  Parkes, Laura M ^a,b   Rashid, Waqar ^a   Chard, Declan T ^a   Tofts, Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Age; Arterial spin labeling; Cerebral perfusion; Gender; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

AGE AND GENDER EFFECTS; ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; CEREBRAL PERFUSION; CONTINUOUS ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; GENDER; INTERSUBJECT VARIATION; PERFUSION MEASUREMENTS; REPRODUCIBILITIES;

REGIONAL PLANNING;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENDER; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; TECHNIQUE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 1842481964     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20023     Document Type: Article

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