Improved arterial spin labeling method: Applications for measurements of cerebral blood flow in human brain at high magnetic field MRI

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4519-4525

  Jahng, Geon Ho ^a   Weiner, Michael W ^b   Schuff, Norbert ^b  

^a Kyung Hee University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial spin labeling; Cerebral blood flow; High field MRI; In plane double inversion

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; HEMODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HIGH FIELD MRI; HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELD GRADIENT; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER; REGION OF INTEREST;

BRAIN;

ADULT; ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN TISSUE; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 35648997907     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2795675     Document Type: Article

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