Variation in the shape of pulsed arterial spin labeling kinetic curves across the healthy human brain and its implications for CBF quantification

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 686-695

  Gallichan, Daniel ^a,b   Jezzard, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arterial spin labeling; Kinetic curve modeling; Perfusion imaging; Physiologic variability

Indexed keywords

KINETICS;

ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; KINETIC CURVES; PERFUSION IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGIC VARIABILITY; THREE-PARAMETER MODELS; TWO-PARAMETER MODELS; TWO-PARAMETER-APPROACH;

BLOOD;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODEL; CURVE FITTING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SPIN LABELING; VARIANCE;

EID: 62649111024     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21886     Document Type: Article

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