Quantifying CBF with pulsed ASL: Technical and pulse sequence factors

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 727-731

  Wong, Eric C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial spin labeling (ASL); Arterial tagging; Cerebral blood flow; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Perfusion; Transit delay

Indexed keywords

TRACER;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN SLICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEGRADATION; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPIN LABELING; TECHNIQUE; TRANSIT DELAY;

ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 28444457242     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20459     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (21)

1. Edelman RR, Chen Q. EPISTAR MRI: multislice mapping of cerebral blood flow. Magn Reson Med 1998;40:800-805.
2. Kim S-G, Tsekos NV. Perfusion imaging by a flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery (FAIR) technique: application to functional brain imaging. Magn Reson Med 1997;37:425-435.
3. Kwong KK, Chesler DA, Weisskoff RM, et al. MR perfusion studies with T1-weighted echo planar imaging. Magn Reson Med 1995;34:878-887.
4. Wong EC, Buxton RB, Frank LR. Implementation of quantitative perfusion imaging techniques for functional brain mapping using pulsed arterial spin labeling. NMR Biomed 1997;10:237-249.
5. Alsop DC, Detre JA. Reduced transit-time sensitivity in noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging of human cerebral blood flow. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 1996;16:1236-1249.
6. Wong EC, Buxton RB, Frank LR. Quantitative imaging of perfusion using a single subtraction (QUIPSS and QUIPSS II). Magn Reson Med 1998;39:702-708.
7. Yongbi MN, Branch CA, Helpern JA. Perfusion imaging using FOCI RF pulses. Magn Reson Med 1998;40:938-943.
8. Frank LR, Wong EC, Buxton RB. Slice profile effects in adiabatic inversion: application to multislice perfusion imaging. Magn Reson Med 1997;38:558-564.
9. Wong EC, Buxton RB, Frank LR. A theoretical and experimental comparison of continuous and pulsed arterial spin labeling techniques for quantitative perfusion imaging. Magn Reson Med 1998;40:348-355.
10. Duhamel G, de Bazelaire C, Alsop DC. Evaluation of systematic quantification errors in velocity-selective arterial spin labeling of the brain. Magn Reson Med 2003;50:145-153.
11. Wong EC, Liu TT, Sidaros K, Frank LR, Buxton RB. Velocity selective arterial spin labeling. In: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Honolulu, 2002. p 621.
12. Edelman RR, Siewert B, Darby DG, et al. Qualitative mapping of cerebral blood flow and functional localization with echo-planar MR imaging and signal targeting with alternating radio frequency (STAR) sequences: applications to MR angiography. Radiology 1994;192:513-520.
13. Kim S-G. Quantification of regional cerebral blood flow change by flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery (FAIR) technique: application to functional mapping. Magn Reson Med 1995;34:293-301.
14. Golay X, Stuber M, Pruessmann KP, Meier D, Boesiger P. Transfer insensitive labeling technique (TILT): applications to multislice functional perfusion imaging. J Magn Reson Imaging 1999;9:454-461.
15. Zhou J, Mori S, van Zijl PC. FAIR excluding radiation damping (FAIRER). Magn Reson Med 1998;40:712-719.
16. Luh WM, Wong EC, Bandettini PA, Hyde JS. QUIPSS II with thin-slice TI1 periodic saturation: a method for improving accuracy of quantitative perfusion imaging using pulsed arterial spin labeling. Magn Reson Med 1999;41:1246-1254.
17. Francis ST, Pears J, McGlone F, Gowland PA, Bowtell RW. Quantification of perfusion with improved temporal resolution and signal to noise ratio using a Look-Locher-EPI-FAIR-T2* sequence. In: Proceedings of the 8th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Denver, 2000. p 715.
18. Ye FQ, Matay VS, Jezzard P, Frank JA, Weinberger DR, McLaughlin AC. Correction for vascular artifacts in cerebral blood flow values measured by using arterial spin tagging techniques. Magn Reson Med 1997;37:226-235.
19. Garcia DM, Duhamel G, Alsop DC. The efficiency of background suppression in arterial spin labeling. Proceedings of the 12th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Kyoto, 2004. p 1360.
20. St Lawrence KS, Frank JA, Bandettini PA, Ye FQ. Noise reduction in multi-slice arterial spin tagging imaging. Magn Reson Med 2005;53:735-738.
21. Buxton RB, Frank LR, Wong EC, Siewert B, Warach S, Edelman RR. A general kinetic model for quantitative perfusion imaging with arterial spin labeling. Magn Reson Med 1998;40:383-396.