MR-Scanner (Philips Healthcare, Best, The Netherlands) using a 16-channel
head/neck and 32-channel head receive-coil. Custom patches were applied on
software release R5.1.8 to optimize T2* imaging by macroscopic
background gradient correction,32 (link),33 (link) to apply multiband imaging (MB)34 (link) and to improve pCASL by 3D GraSE readout, prolonged labeling and improved
background suppression (BGS).35 Details of the imaging protocol were as follows (