Magnetization transfer enhanced Vascular-space-occupancy (MT-VASO) functional MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 944-951

  Hua, Jun ^a,b,c   Donahue, Manus J ^a,b,d   Zhao, Jason M ^a,b   Grgac, Ksenija ^a,b,e   Huang, Alan J ^a,b,f   Zhou, Jinyuan ^a,b   Van Zijl, Peter C M ^a,b,f  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood; Cerebral blood volume; CNR; fMRI; Inversion recovery; Magnetization transfer; MRI; SNR; VASO

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BLOOD; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; HEMODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIZATION; MAMMALS; TISSUE;

CEREBRAL BLOOD VOLUME; FMRI; INVERSION RECOVERY; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER; VASO;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EX VIVO STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNETISM; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE RATE; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VASCULAR SPACE OCCUPANCY; VASCULAR SPACE OCCUPANCY NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 66249140206     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21911     Document Type: Article

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