Theoretical and experimental evaluation of multi-band EPI for high-resolution whole brain pCASL Imaging

NeuroImage

Volumn 106, Issue , 2015, Pages 170-181

  Li, Xiufeng ^a   Wang, Dingxin ^a,b   Auerbach, Edward J ^a   Moeller, Steen ^a   Ugurbil, Kamil ^a   Metzger, Gregory J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial spin labeling (ASL); Cerebral blood flow (CBF); Leakage evaluation via acquired dummy slices (LEADS); Multi band echo planar imaging (MB EPI); Pseudo continuous arterial spin labeling (pCASL); Total leakage factor (TLF)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MILTIBAND ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PSEUDOCONTINUOUS ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SPIN LABELING; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84919327056     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.10.029     Document Type: Article

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