Accuracy of Parenchymal Cerebral Blood Flow Measurements Using Pseudocontinuous Arterial Spin-Labeling in Healthy Volunteers

From the Department of Radiation Sciences (K.A., A.W., A.E.), Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Physics (K.A., A.E.), Center for Functional Brain Imaging (A.W., A.E.), and Department of Clinical Neuroscience (L.Z., J.M.), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Medical Radiation Physics (R.W.), Lund University, Lund, Sweden; and PET Center (J.P.), Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany.

From the Department of Radiation Sciences (K.A., A.W., A.E.), Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Physics (K.A., A.E.), Center for Functional Brain Imaging (A.W., A.E.), and Department of Clinical Neuroscience (L.Z., J.M.), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Medical Radiation Physics (R.W.), Lund University, Lund, Sweden; and PET Center (J.P.), Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany.

From the Department of Radiation Sciences (K.A., A.W., A.E.), Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Physics (K.A., A.E.), Center for Functional Brain Imaging (A.W., A.E.), and Department of Clinical Neuroscience (L.Z., J.M.), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Medical Radiation Physics (R.W.), Lund University, Lund, Sweden; and PET Center (J.P.), Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany.

From the Department of Radiation Sciences (K.A., A.W., A.E.), Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Physics (K.A., A.E.), Center for Functional Brain Imaging (A.W., A.E.), and Department of Clinical Neuroscience (L.Z., J.M.), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Medical Radiation Physics (R.W.), Lund University, Lund, Sweden; and PET Center (J.P.), Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany.

From the Department of Radiation Sciences (K.A., A.W., A.E.), Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Physics (K.A., A.E.), Center for Functional Brain Imaging (A.W., A.E.), and Department of Clinical Neuroscience (L.Z., J.M.), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Medical Radiation Physics (R.W.), Lund University, Lund, Sweden; and PET Center (J.P.), Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany.

From the Department of Radiation Sciences (K.A., A.W., A.E.), Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Physics (K.A., A.E.), Center for Functional Brain Imaging (A.W., A.E.), and Department of Clinical Neuroscience (L.Z., J.M.), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Medical Radiation Physics (R.W.), Lund University, Lund, Sweden; and PET Center (J.P.), Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany.

From the Department of Radiation Sciences (K.A., A.W., A.E.), Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Physics (K.A., A.E.), Center for Functional Brain Imaging (A.W., A.E.), and Department of Clinical Neuroscience (L.Z., J.M.), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Medical Radiation Physics (R.W.), Lund University, Lund, Sweden; and PET Center (J.P.), Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany.