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Pseudo-random arterial modulation (PRAM): A novel arterial spin labeling approach to measure flow and blood transit times.
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PMID:  21990142     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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PURPOSE: To investigate blood flow and transit time measurement, using the pseudo-random arterial modulation (PRAM). MATERIALS AND METHODS: PRAM is based on a pseudo-random sequence of inversions and noninversions of the arterial blood at a labeling plane inferior to the imaging plane. To accomplish this, a pseudo-continuous tagging is used to create inversion or noninversion prepulses before a gradient echo sequence and tested on phantoms and human volunteers. RESULTS: We have shown here that the PRAM technique can measure the velocity profile and the transit time accurately and efficiently both in a phantom and in vivo in a human brain. CONCLUSION: PRAM does not require separate control and label acquisition as is common in arterial spin labeling (ASL) but rather measures the distribution of transit times to a voxel within one integrated scan. The PRAM method is a model-free approach in measuring transit time distributions, and therefore ultimately should provide more accurate perfusion measurements. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2011;. © 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Authors:
Mohammad-Reza Taei-Tehrani; Matthias J P Van Osch; Truman R Brown
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Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2011-10-11
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1522-2586     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 Oct 
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Created Date:  2011-10-12     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
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Nlm Unique ID:  9105850     Medline TA:  J Magn Reson Imaging     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
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Copyright © 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Affiliation:
Rutgers University Brain Imaging Center, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA; Department of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA. mr.tehrani@rutgers.edu.
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