Reproducibility of multiphase pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling and the effect of post-processing analysis methods

NeuroImage

Volumn 117, Issue , 2015, Pages 191-201

  Fazlollahi, Amir ^a,b   Bourgeat, Pierrick ^a   Liang, Xiaoyun ^c   Meriaudeau, Fabrice ^b   Connelly, Alan ^c,d   Salvado, Olivier ^a   Calamante, Fernando ^c,d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arterial spin labeling; Cerebral blood flow; Multiphase pseudo continuous arterial spin labeling; Perfusion MRI; Reproducibility; Test retest

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MOTION; MULTIPHASE PSEUDO CONTINUOUS ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIN LABELING; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VOLUNTEER; BRAIN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PROCEDURES; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

SPIN LABELING;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPIN LABELS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84936741410     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.05.048     Document Type: Article

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