Optimization of flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery (FAIR) for perfusion functional MRI of rodent brain

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1209-1216

  Nasrallah, Fatima A ^a   Lee, Eugene L Q ^a   Chuang, Kai Hsiang ^a,b,c  

^a AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Arterial spin labeling; Cerebral blood flow; Functional MRI; Neural activation

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; FLOW-SENSITIVE ALTERNATING INVERSION RECOVERIES; FUNCTIONAL MRI; FUNCTIONAL MRI (FMRI); GLOBAL INVERSION; ISOCENTERS; LABELING METHODS; MULTI SLICES; NEURAL ACTIVATION; NONINVASIVE METHODS; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; RAT BRAIN; RODENT BRAIN; SIGNAL CHANGES;

NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; OPTIMIZATION; RATS;

FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FLOW SENSITIVE ALTERNATING INVERSION RECOVERY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTISLICE PERFUSION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SPIN LABELING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERFUSION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPIN LABELS;

RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84868125610     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.2790     Document Type: Article

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