Quantitative and functional pulsed arterial spin labeling in the human brain at 9.4 t

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1054-1063

  Bause, Jonas ^a,b   Ehses, Philipp ^a,b   Mirkes, Christian ^a,b   Shajan, G ^a   Scheffler, Klaus ^a,b   Pohmann, Rolf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

9.4 T; ASL; fMRI; perfusion; quantification; ultrahigh field

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION;

9.4 T; FMRI; PERFUSION; QUANTIFICATION; ULTRA-HIGH FIELDS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADIABATIC INVERSION PULSE; ADULT; ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTISLICE PULSED ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; IMAGING PHANTOM; NEUROIMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPIN LABEL;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 84946182584     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25671     Document Type: Article

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