Mouse lumbar and cervical spinal cord blood flow measurements by arterial spin labeling: Sensitivity optimization and first application

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 430-439

  Duhamel, Guillaume ^a,c   Callot, Virginie ^a   Decherchi, Patrick ^b   Le Fur, Yann ^a   Marqueste, Tanguy ^b   Cozzone, Patrick J ^a   Kober, Frank ^a  

^a University of Aix Marseille   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

ASL; Perfusion; SCBF; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

HEMODYNAMICS;

ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; FLOW SENSITIVE ALTERNATING INVERSION RECOVERIES; PERFUSION; SCBF; SENSITIVITY OPTIMIZATION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES (SCI); SPINAL CORDS;

BLOOD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAY MATTER; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPIN LABELING; SPINAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIN LABELS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 67749096072     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22015     Document Type: Article

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