Volumetric cerebral perfusion imaging in healthy adults: Regional distribution, laterality, and repeatability of pulsed continuous arterial spin labeling (PCASL)

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 266-273

  Pfefferbaum, Adolf ^a,b   Chanraud, Sandra ^a,b   Pitel, Anne Lise ^b   Shankaranarayanan, Ajit ^c   Alsop, David C ^d   Rohlfing, Torsten ^a   Sullivan, Edith V ^b  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain iron; CBF; Cerebral blood flow; Laterality; MRI; Precuneus; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED CONTINUOUS ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; SPIN LABELING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ARTERY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTIGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIES; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956078815     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.02.010     Document Type: Article

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