Intra- and interscanner reliability and reproducibility of 3D whole-brain pseudo-continuous arterial spin-labeling MR perfusion at 3T

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 402-409

  Wu, Bing ^a   Lou, Xin ^a   Wu, Xinhuai ^a   Ma, Lin ^a  

^a CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

arterial spin labeling; cerebral blood flow; pCASL; repeatability; reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPIN LABELING; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; PCASL; REPEATABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 84892757927     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.24175     Document Type: Article

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