Measuring biexponential transverse relaxation of the ASL signal at 9.4 T to estimate arterial oxygen saturation and the time of exchange of labeled blood water into cortical brain tissue

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 215-224

  Wells, Jack A ^a   Siow, Bernard ^a,b   Lythgoe, Mark F ^a   Thomas, David L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

arterial spin labeling; ASL; cerebral hemodynamics; exchange; functional MRI (fMRI); MRI

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAVASCULAR SPACE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SPIN LABELING; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; OXYGEN; RATS; SPIN LABELS; WATER;

EID: 84873404725     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: 15597016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2012.156     Document Type: Article

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