Simultaneous PET/MR imaging of the brain: Feasibility of cerebral blood flow measurements with FAIR-TrueFISP arterial spin labeling MRI

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1066-1072

  Stegger, Lars ^a,b   Martirosian, Petros ^a   Schwenzer, Nina ^a   Bisdas, Sotirios ^a   Kolb, Armin ^a   Pfannenberg, Christina ^a   Claussen, Claus D ^a   Pichler, Bernd ^a   Schick, Fritz ^a   Boss, Andreas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b INST OF REPRO MED OF THE UNIV   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arterial spin labeling; Cerebral blood flow; Hybrid imaging; PET MRI

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN IMAGING; CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DATA READOUT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGES; FAST IMAGING; FLOW-SENSITIVE ALTERNATING INVERSION RECOVERIES; FUNCTIONAL LEVELS; GRAY MATTER; MATRIX SIZE; MR SCANNERS; NOVEL IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL CHANGES; SIGNAL TO NOISE; WHITE MATTER;

HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

NEUROIMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIN LABELING; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPIN LABELS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84872006993     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/ar.2012.120191     Document Type: Article

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