Measurement of absolute arterial cerebral blood volume in human brain without using a contrast agent

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1313-1325

  Hua, Jun ^a,b   Qin, Qin ^a,b   Pekar, James J ^a,b   van Zijl, Peter C M ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial blood volume; Arterial transit time; Cerebral blood volume; Double inversion; iVASO; MRI; Perfusion; VASO

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL BLOOD VOLUMES; CEREBRAL BLOOD VOLUME; DOUBLE INVERSION; IVASO; PERFUSION; TRANSIT TIME; VASO;

BLOOD; CRUSHERS; HEMODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TISSUE;

BRAIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SLICE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PULSE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84855321079     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1693     Document Type: Article

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