Imaging cerebral blood flow in the cognitively normal aging brain with arterial Spin labeling: Implications for imaging of neurodegenerative disease

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 344-352

  Lee, Charles ^a,d   Lopez, Oscar L ^b   Becker, James T ^b   Raji, Cyrus ^a,b   Dai, Weiying ^c   Kuller, Lewis H ^b   Gach, H Michael ^a,b  

^a Neuroradiology Division   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial spin labeling; Cerebral blood flow; Cerebral perfusion; MRI; Neurodegenerative disease; Normal aging brain

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN PERFUSION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROIMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; SPIN LABELING; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 70349513609     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2008.00277.x     Document Type: Article

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