Evaluation of segmented 3D acquisition schemes for whole-brain high-resolution arterial spin labeling at 3T

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1387-1396

  Vidorreta, Marta ^a   Balteau, Evelyne ^b   Wang, Ze ^c,d   De Vita, Enrico ^e,f   Pastor, María A ^a   Thomas, David L ^e   Detre, John A ^d,g   Fernández Seara, María A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial spin labeling; Cerebral blood flow; High resolution ASL; Perfusion imaging; Segmented readouts; Spiral imaging

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SPACE FLIGHT;

ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; HIGH RESOLUTION; PERFUSION IMAGING; SEGMENTED READOUTS; SPIRAL IMAGING;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; DATA PROCESSING; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIN LABELING; WHITE MATTER; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; SPIN LABELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

SPIN LABEL;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROIMAGING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPIN LABELS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911080637     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3201     Document Type: Article

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