Monte Carlo Simulation Study of Asymmetric Spin Echo and Preliminary Estimation of Vessel Size Index
Jian Shen1 and John Wood1,2
1University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 2Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
The OEF estimated by ASE method might be affected by the diffusion effect and it mainly applies to bigger vessels. We also demostrate the feasibility to generate the VSI map from ASE data.
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1. Representative signal decay curve (left) and Monte Carlo simulation system
(right).
Figure 3. Typical VSI map for a SCD
patient (left) and mean VSI for all the subjects (right).