Sung-Hong Park1,
2, Jeffrey William Barker1, 3, Kyongtae Ty Bae1
1Radiology,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; 2Bio and
Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
Daejeon, Korea; 3Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
We investigated the feasibility of simultaneous mapping of interslice blood flow, MTR asymmetry, and MTR, using a recently developed method, alternate ascending/descending directional navigation (ALADDIN). The cumulative MT effects in edge slices from simulations based on a modified two-pool MT model were in agreement with empirical results . Simultaneous mapping of blood flow, MTR asymmetry, and MTR in the whole brain was feasible with ALADDIN within a clinically reasonable time of &[le]~7 min. Our proposed method provides readily a full spectrum of MR measurements useful to characterize a wide range of brain pathological conditions and functional evaluation.