Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 9 , Pages 1283-1289 , November 2010

Reliability and reproducibility of perfusion MRI in cognitively normal subjects

  • Li Jiang

      Affiliations

    • F. M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    • The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Division of MR Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    • Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510080, China
    • ,
  • Mina Kim

      Affiliations

    • F. M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    • The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Division of MR Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    • Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    • ,
  • BettyAnn Chodkowski

      Affiliations

    • F. M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    • ,
  • Manus J. Donahue

      Affiliations

    • F. M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    • The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Division of MR Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    • ,
  • James J. Pekar

      Affiliations

    • F. M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    • The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Division of MR Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    • ,
  • Peter C.M. Van Zijl

      Affiliations

    • F. M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    • The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Division of MR Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Tel.: +1 443 923 9511; fax: +1 410 614 1948.
    • ,
  • Marilyn Albert

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurocognitive Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA

Received 4 February 2010 ,Revised 25 April 2010 ,Accepted 8 May 2010.

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☆ Grants Support: NIH-NCRR P41015241, Glaxo Smith Kline.

PII: S0730-725X(10)00132-3

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.05.002

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 9 , Pages 1283-1289 , November 2010

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