MRI of cerebral micro-vascular flow patterns: A multi-direction diffusion-weighted ASL approach

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 2076-2083

  Wells, J A ^a,b   Thomas, D L ^c   Saga, T ^a   Kershaw, J ^a   Aoki, I ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arterial spin labelling; Diffusion imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Micro vascular; Perfusion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MICROVASCULATURE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VASCULARIZATION;

SPIN LABEL;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MICROVESSELS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 85019751090     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: 15597016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0271678X16660985     Document Type: Article

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