The effect of B1 field inhomogeneity and the nonselective inversion profile on the kinetics of FAIR-based perfusion MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1355-1362

  Schepers, Janneke ^a,c   Van Osch, Matthias J P ^a   Bartels, Lambertus W ^a   Heukels, Sean N ^a   Viergever, Max A ^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; Coil properties; FAIR; Inflow of fresh spins; Perfusion kinetics

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC INVERSION PULSE; ADIABATIC INVERSIONS; ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; B1 FIELD INHOMOGENEITY; COIL PROPERTIES; FAIR; FLOW SENSITIVE ALTERNATING INVERSION RECOVERIES; INFLOW OF FRESH SPINS;

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW SENSITIVE ALTERNATING INVERSION RECOVERY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PHANTOM; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RAT; THEORY; ANIMAL; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPIN LABELING;

ANIMALS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; GADOLINIUM DTPA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 19544376998     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20480     Document Type: Article

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