Correcting saturation effects of the arterial input function in dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced MRI - a Monte Carlo simulation

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1300-1311

  Brunecker, Peter ^a   Villringer, Arno ^a   Schultze, Jörg ^a   Nolte, Christian H ^a   Jungehülsing, Gerhard Jan ^a   Endres, Matthias ^a   Steinbrink, Jens ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arterial input function; Brain; Contrast media; MRI; Perfusion imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTERIAL INPUT FUNCTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN PERFUSION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DECOMPOSITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL GENETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 35448956182     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2007.03.011     Document Type: Article

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