Whole‐brain perfusion imaging with balanced steady‐state free precession arterial spin labeling
Han P, Ye J, Kim E, Choi S, Park S. Whole‐brain perfusion imaging with balanced steady‐state free precession arterial spin labeling. NMR In Biomedicine 2015, 29: 264-274. PMID: 26676386, DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3463.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSignal-to-noise ratioBalanced steady-state free precessionTotal scan timeCompressive sensingReduced susceptibility artifactsPerfusion imagingWhole-brain perfusion imagingScan timeSusceptibility artifactsPseudo-continuous ASLReadout timeCS approachSteady-state free precessionAcquisition of perfusion imagesSegmentation approachFree precessionBSSFP readoutArterial spin labeling (ASL) perfusionSpatial resolutionImage qualityDistortion-freeReadoutHigh-resolutionTemporal resolutionImagesCompressed Sensing for fMRI: Feasibility Study on the Acceleration of Non‐EPI fMRI at 9.4T
Han P, Park S, Kim S, Ye J. Compressed Sensing for fMRI: Feasibility Study on the Acceleration of Non‐EPI fMRI at 9.4T. BioMed Research International 2015, 2015: 131926. PMID: 26413503, PMCID: PMC4564593, DOI: 10.1155/2015/131926.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCompressive sensingBalanced steady-state free precessionSensitive to image distortionsHigh-resolution fMRI techniqueMagnetic field inhomogeneityLocal magnetic field inhomogeneitiesConventional functional magnetic resonance imagingCS reconstructionGradient-recalled echoCS algorithmFOCUSS algorithmNon-EPI sequencesMagnetic fieldSampling patternHigh-resolution functional magnetic resonance imagingFunctional magnetic resonance imagingField inhomogeneityGRE-EPIImage distortionSteady-state free precessionExperimental resultsTemporal resolutionAlgorithmFree precessionSpoiled gradient echo