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University of Texas Health Science Center Details Research in Biomedical Engineering

Published in Blood Weekly, March 1st, 2012

2012 MAR 1 -- A report, "Background suppression in arterial spin labeling MRI with a separate neck labeling coil," is newly published data in Nmr In Biomedicine. "In arterial spin labeling (ASL) MRI to measure cerebral blood flow (CBF), pair-wise subtraction of temporally adjacent non-labeled and labeled images often can not completely cancel the background static tissue signal because of temporally fluctuating physiological noise. While background suppression (BS) by inversion nulling improves CBF temporal stability, imperfect pulses compromise CBF contrast," scientists in San Antonio, Texas report.

"Conventional BS techniques may not be applicable...

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