Near-contiguous spin echo imaging using matched-phase RF and its application in velocity-selective arterial spin labeling

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2043-2050

  Zun, Zungho ^a   Hargreaves, Brian A ^a   Pauly, John ^b   Zaharchuk, Greg ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

arterial spin labeling; cerebral blood flow; matched phase RF; VSASL

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CROSSTALK; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPIN POLARIZATION; STATISTICS; VELOCITY;

ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; LONGITUDINAL MAGNETIZATION; MATCHED-PHASE RF; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIZATION; VSASL;

BLOOD;

ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATCHED PHASE RADIOFREQUENCY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SPIN LABELING; ALGORITHM; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MOTION; PROCEDURES; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION;

SPIN LABELING;

ALGORITHMS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIO WAVES; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 84900790891     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24866     Document Type: Article

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