Abstract
In six young, healthy volunteers, a novel method to determine cerebral blood flow (CBF) using magnetic resonance (MR) bolus tracking was compared with [15O]H2O positron emission tomography (PET). The method yielded parametric CBF images with tissue contrast in good agreement with parametric PET CBF images. Introducing a common conversion factor, MR CBF values could be converted into absolute flow rates, allowing comparison of CBF values among normal subjects.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 935-940 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1998 |
Keywords
- Cerebral blood flow
- Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging
- Humans susceptibility contrast
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Neurology
- Clinical Neurology
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine