Cerebrovascular Anatomy and Regional Blood Supply Robert Vollmann Josef Simbrunner Michael Augustin Internal Carotid Artery Basic Anatomic Relationship The common carotid artery divides into the internal carotid artery (ICA) and…
Arterial Spin Labeling Acquisition Protocols Youngkyoo Jung Joseph A. Maldjian Christopher T. Whitlow Greg Zaharchuk Shalini A. Amukotuwa Jeroen Hendrikse The arterial spin labeling (ASL) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method…
The Basic Principles of Dynamic Contrast–Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Julio Cárdenas-Rodríguez Xia Li Jennifer G. Whisenant Stephanie Barnes Rudolf Stollberger John C. Gore Thomas E. Yankeelov Introduction Any tissue of…
“Pick your Poison”: The Arterial Spin Labeling Shopper’s Guide or which Method for which Application? Hanzhang Lu Matthias Günther Xavier Golay Susan R. Hopkins Fritz Schick Rebecca J. Theilmann Petros…
Keys to Robust Arterial Spin Labeling in the Clinical and Research Environment David C. Alsop Jeroen Hendrikse Arterial spin labeling (ASL) promises nearly everything that could be desired from a…
Velocity-Selective Arterial Spin Labeling Eric C. Wong Lawrence R. Frank Introduction In both pulsed arterial spin labeling (pASL) and continuous ASL (CASL), the spatial separation between the site of arterial…
Flow Territory Mapping: Region-Selective Arterial Spin Labeling Matthias J.P. van Osch Matthias Günther Eric C. Wong Background Region-selective arterial spin labeling (rsASL) aims at determining what tissue is fed by…
Confounding Effects in Arterial Spin Labeling Danny J.J. Wang María A. Fernández-Seara Hanzhang Lu Introduction Perfusion imaging methods generally can be divided into three categories depending on the transport properties…
Pseudo-Continuous Arterial Spin Labeling David C. Alsop Ajit Shankaranarayanan Continuous labeling of inflowing arterial blood as it flows past a selected labeling plane is an elegant and advantageous strategy for…
Readout and Background Suppression Techniques David Thomas Matthias Günther Xavier Golay Arterial spin labeling (ASL) is a low-sensitivity method. As explained in Chapter 15, the general signal expected in ASL…
