Jia Guo1, Eric C. Wong2
1Department of Bioengineering,
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States; 2Department
of Radiology and Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla,
CA, United States
While
optimized Vessel Encoded Pseudo-Continuous ASL (opt-VEPCASL) provides higher
SNR efficiency, randomly-encoded VEPCASL (re-VEPCASL) may provide other
benefits such as: 1) no planning or angiogram is needed; and 2) it is
potentially insensitive to resonance offsets. These advantages may benefit
clinical users. In this abstract, the advantages of opt-VEPCASL and
re-VEPCASL are discussed, and the efficiency of random encoding is examined
by simulation.