Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 182, Issue 3 , Pages 266-273 , 30 June 2010

Volumetric cerebral perfusion imaging in healthy adults: Regional distribution, laterality, and repeatability of pulsed continuous arterial spin labeling (PCASL)

  • Adolf Pfefferbaum

      Affiliations

    • Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, United States
    • Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
    • ,
  • Sandra Chanraud

      Affiliations

    • Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, United States
    • Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
    • ,
  • Anne-Lise Pitel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
    • ,
  • Ajit Shankaranarayanan

      Affiliations

    • MR Applied System Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA, United States
    • ,
  • David C. Alsop

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
    • ,
  • Torsten Rohlfing

      Affiliations

    • Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, United States
    • ,
  • Edith V. Sullivan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305-5723, United States. Tel.: +1 650 498 7328; fax: +1 650 859 2743.

Received 26 January 2010 ,Revised 23 February 2010 ,Accepted 23 February 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.02.010

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 182, Issue 3 , Pages 266-273 , 30 June 2010

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