Improving quality of arterial spin labeling MR imaging at 3 Tesla with a 32-channel coil and parallel imaging

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1233-1239

  Ferré, Jean Christophe ^a,b,c,d   Petr, Jan ^b,c   Bannier, Elise ^b,d   Barillot, Christian ^b,c,d   Gauvrit, Jean Yves ^a,b,c,d  

^a PONTCHAILLOU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^d RENNES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Array coil; Arterial spin labeling; Brain; Magnetic resonance imaging; Parallel imaging; Perfusion imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DEVICES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIN LABELING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 84859795017     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.23586     Document Type: Article

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