This study sought to demonstrate the potential for arterial spin labeling (ASL) to differentiate normal and ischemic myocardial segments based on increase in myocardial blood flow (MBF) with vasodilatation.
Arterial spin labeled MRI detects increase in myocardial blood flow with adenosine
✍ Scribed by Zungho Zun; Padmini Varadarajan; Raas G Pai; Eric C Wong; Krishna S Nayak
- Book ID
- 104498296
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 591 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1097-6647
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