We apply a multi-TE ASL technique in the mouse brain, to separate intravascular and extravascular components of the ASL signal, as a non-invasive assessment of vascular permeability. Methodological development enabled the technique to reliably capture ASL signal compartmentation in the mouse brain, despite inherently low SNR. We report a significant decrease in intravascular fraction of the ASL signal from 0.66 (± 0.17) to 0.35 (± 0.10) as inflow time increases from 1000ms to 1500ms. This technique can be applied to transgenic mouse models of neurodegeneration, and a kinetic model can extract vascular permeability parameters from the ASL signal distribution.
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