Contrast agent concentration measurements affecting quantification of bolus-tracking perfusion MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 544-553

  Calamante, Fernando ^a,b   Vonken, Evert Jan P A ^c   Van Osch, Matthias J P ^d  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bolus tracking MRI; Cerebral blood flow; Contrast agent concentration; Perfusion; Quantification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY;

CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENT; CONTRAST AGENT; DYNAMIC SUSCEPTIBILITY CONTRAST MRIS; PERFUSION; PERFUSION QUANTIFICATION; QUANTIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION;

BLOOD;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN LEVEL; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION; SIMULATION;

EID: 36348985610     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21362     Document Type: Article

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