Evaluation of a multiple spin- and gradient-echo (SAGE) EPI acquisition with SENSE acceleration: Applications for perfusion imaging in and outside the brain

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1171-1180

  Skinner, Jack T ^a,b   Robison, Ryan K ^d   Elder, Christopher P ^a,b   Newton, Allen T ^a,b,c   Damon, Bruce M ^a,b,e   Quarles, C Chad ^a,b,e  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic susceptibility contrast; MRI; Multi echo; Muscle; Parallel imaging; Perfusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MUSCLE PERFUSION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN SATURATION; SENSITIVITY ENCODING; SPIN AND GRADIENT ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; ACCELERATION; ALGORITHM; BRAIN; BRAIN TUMOR; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GLIOMA; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEG; MUSCLE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPERFUSION; SCINTIGRAPHY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; OXYGEN;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCLES; OXYGEN; PERFUSION IMAGING; REPERFUSION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84922202293     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2014.08.032     Document Type: Article

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