Automatic selection of arterial input function using cluster analysis

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 524-531

  Mouridsen, Kim ^a   Christensen, Søren ^a   Gyldensted, Louise ^a   Østergaard, Leif ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arterial input function; Cerebral blood flow; Cluster analysis; Deconvolution; Dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DECONVOLUTION; DIAGNOSIS; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY;

ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS; ARTERIAL INPUT FUNCTION; AUTOMATIC PROCEDURES; AUTOMATIC SELECTION; CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONCENTRATION-TIME; DYNAMIC SUSCEPTIBILITY CONTRAST MRIS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

GADOBUTROL;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPERATOR; REPRODUCIBILITY; STROKE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 33644795031     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20759     Document Type: Article

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