Measurement of Cerebral White Matter Perfusion Using Pseudocontinuous Arterial Spin Labeling 3T Magnetic Resonance Imaging – an Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Feasibility

Abstract

PCASL 3T MRI is able to measure perfusion in the majority of cerebral white matter at an adequate signal-to-noise ratio by using appropriate tagging duration and post-labeling delay. Although pixel-wise comparison may not be possible, region-of-interest based flow quantification is feasible.