Assessment of cerebral blood flow reserv
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Peter Hedera; Song Lai; Jonathan S. Lewin; E. Mark Haacke; Dee Wu; Alan J. Lerne
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Imaging of activated brain areas based on changes of blood deoxyhemoglobin levels is now possible with MRI. Acetazolamide (ACZ) increases cerebral blood flow (CBF) without changing cerebral oxygen consumption; this results in signal changes observed in gradient echo MR images from the a