Measurement of arterial transit time and renal blood flow using pseudocontinuous ASL MRI with multiple post-labeling delays: Feasibility, reproducibility, and variation

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 813-819

  Kim, Dong Won ^a   Shim, Woo Hyun ^b   Yoon, Seong Kuk ^a   Oh, Jong Yeong ^a   Kim, Jeong Kon ^b   Jung, Hoesu ^b   Matsuda, Tsuyoshi ^c   Kim, Dongeun ^c  

^a Dong A University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

arterial spin labeling; magnetic resonance imaging; renal blood flow; renal perfusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL TRANSIT TIME; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTIMATED GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY MEDULLA; KIDNEY PERFUSION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOCONTINUOUS ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; TIME; VASCULARIZATION;

SPIN LABEL;

ADULT; AGED; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; RENAL CIRCULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPIN LABELS; TIME;

EID: 85027339485     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.25634     Document Type: Article

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