Title: Arterial Spin Labeling in Neurovascular Imaging: Beyond CBF

Abstract: Arterial spin labeling (ASL) is a non-invasive MRI technique for measuring cerebral blood flow. Over the past three decades, ASL has undergone rapid technical development, which promotes ASL to become a useful imaging tool for brain perfusion measurement. Except for ASL perfusion imaging, additional physiological information can be derived using ASL during the passage of labeled blood through the cerebral arterial trees into capillaries and tissue, such as dynamic MR angiography, vascular territorial mapping, and other hemodynamic parameter quantification, all of which could also provide useful information in neurovascular applications. In this talk, I will start with a brief overview of ASL technical development, then move on to introduce our recent research in advanced ASL development.




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