Techniques, systems computer program products are disclosed for mapping of
vascular perfusion territories by placing one or more blood vessels of
the vascular perfusion territories in a tag condition and others in a
control condition by applying a train of pseudo-continuous radio
frequency tagging pulses. In addition, an encoding scheme is applied to
fully invert or relax the blood vessels of the vascular perfusion
territories. Also, a tagging efficiency is measured for each blood vessel
based on the applied encoding scheme. Further, the vascular perfusion
territories are separated by using the measured tagging efficiency in a
decoding process.