Deriving blood-oxygen-level-dependent contrast in MRI with T 2*-weighted, T2-prepared and phase-cycled SSFP methods: Theory and experiment

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 561-570

  Arumana, Jain Mangalathu ^a   Li, Debiao ^a,b   Dharmakumar, Rohan ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood; BOLD; fMRI; Ischemia; Oxygen; SSFP

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

BLOOD OXYGEN LEVEL DEPENDENTS; BOLD; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; FMRI; GRADIENT RECALLED ECHOS; ISCHEMIA; SSFP; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS;

BLOOD;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; CALCULATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG ISCHEMIA; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIMULATION; STEADY STATE; THEORY;

EID: 40449127610     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21511     Document Type: Article

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