Improving dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI measurement of quantitative cerebral blood flow using corrections for partial volume and nonlinear contrast relaxivity: A xenon computed tomographic comparative study

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 743-752

  Zaharchuk, Greg ^a,d   Bammer, Roland ^a   Straka, Matus ^a   Newbould, Rexford D ^b   Rosenberg, Jarrett ^a   Olivot, Jean Marc ^a   Mlynash, Michael ^c   Lansberg, Maarten G ^c   Schwartz, Neil E ^c   Marks, Michael M ^a   Albers, Gregory W ^c   Moseley, Michael E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Mailcode 5488 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Dynamic susceptibility contrast; MRI; Perfusion; Quantitation

Indexed keywords

XENON;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; XENON;

EID: 70349685085     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21908     Document Type: Article

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