Michael A. Chappell1,2,
Tom W. Okell2, Stephen J. Payne1, Peter Jezzard2,
Mark W. Woolrich2
1Institute of
Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 2FMRIB
Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Vessel Encoded Arterial Spin Labelling (VEASL) preparations permit vessel selectivity for both dynamic angiographic and perfusion acquisitions. The calculation of flow contributions can be very sensitive to choice of encoding and subject position, this can be accounted for using a recently proposed general framework for VEASL analysis. However, the original implementation of this framework was too slow for many practical applications. Here faster solutions to the framework were sought that reduced computational time from hours to minutes or in some cases seconds without substantially affecting the accuracy of the resulting images.