This thesis presents the design, implementation and testing of a perfusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging sequence that is capable of acquiring several slices at a time. Various methods of image acquisition and perfusion contrast generation are considered and tested. / The results of multi-slice acquisitions are compared with those from single-slice sequences in a variety of experiments to elucidate the effects of various imaging parameters on the measured perfusion signal. A seven slice version was implemented, and was found to give good results in the tests performed. This sequence will be useful in perfusion-based functional magnetic resonance imaging studies where the region of interest can not be covered with a single image slice.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.30386 |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Creators | Gill, Bradford A. |
| Contributors | Pike, G. Bruce (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Medical Radiation Physics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001740652, proquestno: MQ64361, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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