Functional, physiological, and metabolic toolbox for clinical magnetic resonance imaging: Integration of acquisition and analysis strategies
✍ Scribed by Keith R. Thulborn; Steve Uttecht; Carlos Betancourt; S. Lalith Talagala; Fernando E. Boada; Gary X. Shen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 282 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0899-9457
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✦ Synopsis
Selected neuroimaging strategies have been integrated protocols. Thus, any comprehensive imaging protocol must be into a clinical brain imaging protocol to provide quantitative highperformed within the constraints of current clinical practice: high resolution functional, physiological, and metabolic maps to complespatial resolution, clinically relevant information, immediately ment exquisitely detailed anatomic images without excessively prointerpretable results, and high patient throughput. longing the conventional clinical examination or analysis time. The
Fast imaging methods such as echo-planar imaging (EPI) physiological maps of blood pool parameters (relative cerebral blood [1,2] have allowed the evolution of imaging strategies that derive volume, tissue transit time, and arrival time), apparent diffusion coefinformation from series of images. Dynamic susceptibility conficient, tissue water content, and functional neuronal activation maps trast imaging (DSCI) tracking the first pass of an intravenous are derived from series of images acquired with echo-planar imaging. The metabolic map reflecting tissue sodium homeostasis (tissue so-