Noninvasive intracranial compliance from MRI-based measurements of transcranial blood and CSF flows: Indirect versus direct approach

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 544-551

  Tain, Rong Wen ^a   Alperin, Noam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF); Craniospinal system; Intracranial compliance (ICC); Lumped parameter modeling; Phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging (PCMRI)

Indexed keywords

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID (CSF); CRANIOSPINAL SYSTEM; INTRACRANIAL COMPLIANCE (ICC); LUMPED-PARAMETER MODELING; PHASE CONTRAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (PCMRI);

ATOMS; BLOOD; BRAIN; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; FLUIDS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCE; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACRANIAL COMPLIANCE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIMULATION; SKULL; VOLUMETRY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMPLIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PULSATILE FLOW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 65349103048     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.2006010     Document Type: Article

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