Balanced steady-state free precession fMRI with intravascular susceptibility contrast agent

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-73

  Zhou, Iris Y ^a   Cheung, Matthew M ^a   Lau, Condon ^a   Chan, Kevin C ^a   Wu, Ed X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

bSSFP; CBV; fMRI; Intravascular susceptibility contrast agent; MION; Rat

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BRAIN; HEMODYNAMICS; IRON OXIDES; MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RATING; RATS;

BLOCK-DESIGN PARADIGMS; BSSFP; CEREBRAL BLOOD VOLUME; CONTRAST AGENT; FMRI; MION; MONOCRYSTALLINE IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLE; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS;

FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING;

MONOCRYSTALLINE IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BALANCED STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION FMRI; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HYPERCAPNIA; INTRAVASCULAR SPACE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RAT; SIGNAL DETECTION; STEADY STATE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84862260827     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23202     Document Type: Article

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