Reducing contamination while closing the Gap: BASSI RF pulses in PASL

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 865-873

  Warnking, Jan M ^a   Pike, G Bruce ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adiabatic RF pulses; Artifacts; Human cerebral perfusion imaging; Pulsed arterial spin labeling; RF power desposition

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES;

ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; ARTIFACTS; CEREBRAL PERFUSION; RF PULSE; RF-POWER;

CONTAMINATION;

AGAR; COPPER SULFATE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SPIN LABELING; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 33645795438     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20843     Document Type: Article

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