Abstract #2064

Continuous Arterial Spin Labeling (CASL) of Cerebral Blood Flow of Mouse at 9.4T

Hongxia Lei^1,2, Yves Pilloud¹, Rolf Gruetter^1,3

¹Laboratory of Functional & Metabolic Imaging, Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; ²Radiology, Univeristy of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; ³Radiology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

In this study, we demonstrated that continuous arterial spin labeling for mapping cerebral blood flow of mouse at 9.4T was feasible. This opens possibilities of studying transgenic mouse models by means of MR techniques.