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The authors performed consecutive pseudocontinuous arterial spin-labeling and phase-contrast MR imaging on 82 individuals (healthy young adults, healthy older adults, and older adults with cerebral small vessel disease or chronic stroke infarcts) and examined associations between extracranial phase-contrast hemodynamics and intracranial arterial spin-labeling characteristics, which were defined by labeling efficiency, temporal signal-to-noise ratio, and spatial coefficient of variation. Large-artery blood velocity was inversely associated with labeling efficiency, temporal SNR, and spatial coefficient of variation of arterial spin-labeling. They conclude that choosing arterial spin-labeling timing parameters with on-line knowledge of blood velocity may improve CBF quantification.