Comparison of pulsed arterial spin labeling encoding schemes and absolute perfusion quantification

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1039-1045

  Çavuşoǧlu, Mustafa ^a   Pfeuffer, Josef ^b   Uǧurbil, Kâmil ^a   Uludaǧ, Kâmil ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial spin labeling; Cerebral blood flow; MRI

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIN LABELING;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 70049114375     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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