Dennis Franciscus Ramon Heijtel1, Matthias
J. P. van Osch2, Matthan W. A. Caan1, Ed van Bavel3,
Aart J. Nederveen1
1Radiology, Academic
Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands; 2Radiology, Leiden
University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands; 3Biomedical
Engineering & Physics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The purpose of this study was to implement and investigate the performance of different available ASL sequences on a 1T open bore scanner. We demonstrate that ASL on a 1 Tesla open bore scanner is possible with a reasonable resolution and within a scanning period of approximately 5-6 min.