Intra-and multicenter reproducibility of pulsed, continuous and pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling methods for measuring cerebral perfusion

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1706-1715

  Gevers, Sanna ^a   Van Osch, Matthias J ^b   Bokkers, Reinoud P H ^c   Kies, Dennis A ^b   Teeuwisse, Wouter M ^b   Majoie, Charles B ^a   Hendrikse, Jeroen ^c   Nederveen, Aart J ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arterial spin labeling; multicenter; reference values; regional variability; reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NETHERLANDS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDO CONTINUOUS ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; PULSED ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPIN LABELING;

ADULT; ARTERIES; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION IMAGING; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 79961003493     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: 15597016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2011.10     Document Type: Article

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