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Perfusion Quantification using Velocity Selective Inversion pulses in a combined ASL-MRF Framework
Anish Lahiri1, Jeffrey Fessler1, and Luis Hernandez-Garcia2
1Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, 2FMRI Laboratory and Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
A combination of Velocity Selective Inversion pulses and ASL-MRF may be a feasible alternative to pCASL-based ASL-MRF for quantification of perfusion and other hemodynamic parameters in the brain
Figure 4: Estimates for Perfusion, BAT and tissue T1 obtained from a healthy human subject using our combined VSI and MRF-ASL framework.
Figure 1: Composition of a single repetition time (TR) and details of the pulse sequence used in our work. The TR is varied across acquisitions by varying the Post Labeling Delays.