Monitoring of the effect of intervertebral disc nucleus pulposus ablation by MRI.

abstract：:Perfusion is an important biomarker of tissue function and has been associated with tumor pathophysiology such as angiogenesis and hypoxia. Arterial spin labeling (ASL) MRI allows noninvasive and quantitative imaging of perfusion; however, the application in mouse xenograft tumor models has been challenging due to the...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Rajendran R,Liang J,Tang MY,Henry B,Chuang KH

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of cerebral water as an internal intensity standard for the quantitation of spatially localized proton spectra of the human brain is investigated. The method is validated on standard samples of N-acetyl aspartate (NAA) and lactate, and possible sources of error are discussed. Using the STEAM pulse sequence, co...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Barker PB,Soher BJ,Blackband SJ,Chatham JC,Mathews VP,Bryan RN

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of brain tumours in children would benefit from improved non-invasive diagnosis, characterisation and prognostic biomarkers. Metabolite profiles derived from in-vivo MRS have been shown to provide such information. Studies indicate that using optimum a priori information on metabolite contents in the constr...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Davies NP,Wilson M,Natarajan K,Sun Y,MacPherson L,Brundler MA,Arvanitis TN,Grundy RG,Peet AC

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NMR relaxometry can provide information about the relaxation of the magnetization in different tissues, increasing our understanding of molecular dynamics and biochemical composition in biological systems. In general, tissues have complex and heterogeneous structures composed of multiple pools. As a result, bulk magne...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Zibetti MVW,Helou ES,Sharafi A,Regatte RR

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated that using hyperpolarized [2-13 C]pyruvate as a contrast agent can reveal 13 C signals from metabolites associated with the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle. However, the metabolites detectable from TCA cycle-mediated oxidation of [2-13 C]pyruvate are the result of several metabolic st...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Chen AP,Lau AZ,Gu YP,Schroeder MA,Barry J,Cunningham CH

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) function in lipoprotein mixtures pose many difficulties by conventional biochemical methods. For instance, studies on the effects of CETP on the composition of apolipoprotein B containing lipoproteins (very low and low density lipoproteins) in lipoprotein mixtures a...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Korhonen A,Ala-Korpela M,Liinamaa MJ,Jokisaari J,Kesäniemi YA,Savolainen MJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential use of 13C multilabeled substrates has been studied in biological applications using in vivo and in vitro proton and 13C NMR spectroscopy. In 13C NMR spectroscopy, multilabeled compounds allow the simultaneous observation of several nuclei or increase distinctly the signal to noise ratio due to a higher ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Künnecke B,Cerdan S

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development and implementation of novel MRI pulse sequences remains challenging and laborious. Gradient waveforms are typically designed using a combination of analytical and ad hoc methods to construct each gradient waveform axis independently. This strategy makes coding the pulse sequence complicated, in additio...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Middione MJ,Loecher M,Moulin K,Ennis DB

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A noise figure and noise parameter measurement system was developed that consists of a combination spectrum and network analyzer, preamplifier, programmable power supply, noise source, tuning board, and desktop computer. The system uses the Y-factor method for noise figure calculation and allows calibrations to correc...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Lagore RL,Roberts BR,Possanzini C,Saylor C,Fallone BG,De Zanche N

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the impetus of early clinical and experimental investigations, in vivo and in vitro MRS studies of tumours pointed in the eighties to the possible significance of signals arising from phospholipid (PL) precursors and catabolites as novel biochemical indicators of in vivo tumour progression and response to th...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Podo F

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:d-amino acid oxidase (DAO) is a peroxisomal enzyme that catalyzes the oxidative deamination of several neutral and basic d-amino acids to their corresponding α-keto acids. In most mammalian species studied, high DAO activity is found in the kidney, liver, brain and polymorphonuclear leukocytes, and its main function i...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Radaelli A,Gruetter R,Yoshihara HAI

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accurate diagnosis of glioma subtypes is critical for appropriate treatment, but conventional histopathologic diagnosis often exhibits significant intra-observer variability and sampling error. The aim of this study was to investigate whether histogram analysis using an automatically segmented region of interest (...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Lee J,Choi SH,Kim JH,Sohn CH,Lee S,Jeong J

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute hypoxia (transient cycles of hypoxia-reoxygenation) is known to occur in solid tumors and is generally believed to be caused by tumor blood flow instabilities. It was recently demonstrated that T2*-weighted (T2*w) gradient echo (GRE) MRI is a powerful non-invasive method for investigating periodic changes in tum...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Baudelet C,Cron GO,Ansiaux R,Crokart N,DeWever J,Feron O,Gallez B

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative mapping of MR tissue parameters such as the spin-lattice relaxation time (T1 ), the spin-spin relaxation time (T2 ), and the spin-lattice relaxation in the rotating frame (T1ρ ), referred to as MR relaxometry in general, has demonstrated improved assessment in a wide range of clinical applications. Compar...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Feng L,Ma D,Liu F

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the development of a novel technique for functional MRI of the human brain at 0.135 microL resolution for a whole brain section. In comparison with conventional studies at 3 mm isotropic resolution or 27 microL voxel size, the method yields an improvement by a factor of 200. To achieve optimum ima...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Voit D,Frahm J

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study aims to evaluate the feasibility of creatine (Cr) chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST)-weighted MRI at 7 T in the human brain by optimizing the saturation pulse parameters and computing contrast using a Z-spectral fitting approach. The Cr-weighted (Cr-w) CEST contrast was computed from phanto...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Singh A,Debnath A,Cai K,Bagga P,Haris M,Hariharan H,Reddy R

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper compares two spectral processing methods for obtaining quantitative measures from in vivo prostate spectra, evaluates their effectiveness, and discusses the necessary modifications for accurate results. A frequency domain analysis (FDA) method based on peak integration was compared with a time domain fittin...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Pels P,Ozturk-Isik E,Swanson MG,Vanhamme L,Kurhanewicz J,Nelson SJ,Van Huffel S

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manganese ions (Mn(2+) ) enter viable myocardial cells via voltage-gated calcium channels. Because of its shortening of T(1) and its relatively long half-life in cells, Mn(2+) can serve as an intracellular molecular contrast agent to study indirect calcium influx into the myocardium. One major concern in using Mn(2+) ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Hu TC,Chuang KH,Yanasak N,Koretsky A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transverse relaxation rates R2 and R2* were measured at 3 T in the substantia nigra of the midbrain of adult normal human controls. The relaxation rate arising from magnetic inhomogeneities, R2', was calculated from the relationship R2* = R2 + R2'. No significant differences were found for any parameters between l...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Helpern JA,Ordidge RJ,Gorell JM,Deniau JC,Welch KM

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spin-exchange NMR techniques enable the measurement of the rates of exchange of solutes between chemically or physically distinct sites in reactions taking place at chemical equilibrium. The time scale of the events that are able to be investigated lies in the neighbourhood of 1 s. The earliest studies in this area of...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Kuchel PW

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential for using pre-polarized liquids as contrast agents in vivo is investigated and the feasibility of the method demonstrated. In this study we show the enhancement obtained following intravenous delivery of pre-polarized saline into the antecubital vein of a volunteer. This form of contrast agent provides s...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Young IR,deSouza NM,Hall AS,Williams AD,Hajnal JV,Coutts GA

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess infarction development in pig hearts, Mn-enhanced and Gd-enhanced MRI were used. In domestic pigs (25-35 kg, n = 37), the first and second diagonal branches of the left anterior descending coronary artery were ligated to induce acute ischemia and infarction (ischemia+reperfusion) or chronic infarction of inc...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Yang Y,Gruwel ML,Sun J,Gervai P,Yang X,Kupriyanov VV

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management and treatment of high-grade glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) and solitary metastasis (MET) are very different and influence the prognosis and subsequent clinical outcomes. In the case of a solitary MET, diagnosis using conventional radiology can be equivocal. Currently, a definitive diagnosis is based on h...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Yang G,Jones TL,Barrick TR,Howe FA

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many small animals there are distinct differences in fiber-type composition among limb muscles, and these differences typically correspond to marked disparities in the oxidative capacities. However, whether there are similar differences in the oxidative capacity among leg muscles in humans is less clear. The purpos...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Forbes SC,Slade JM,Francis RM,Meyer RA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most ovarian tumors are cystic structures containing variable amounts of fluid. Several studies of ovarian cyst fluid focus on one specific metabolite using conventional assay systems. We examined the potential of (1)H-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in evaluation of the overall metabolic composition of cyst f...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Boss EA,Moolenaar SH,Massuger LF,Boonstra H,Engelke UF,de Jong JG,Wevers RA

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal urea handling is central to the urine concentrating mechanism, and as such the ability to image urea transport in the kidney is an important potential imaging biomarker for renal functional assessment. Glucagon levels associated with changes in dietary protein intake have been shown to influence renal urea handl...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Qi H,Mariager CØ,Nielsen PM,Schroeder M,Lindhardt J,Nørregaard R,Klein JD,Sands JM,Laustsen C

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand and predict the blood-oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) fMRI signal, an accurate knowledge of the relationship between cerebral blood flow (DeltaCBF) and volume (DeltaCBV) changes is critical. Currently, this relationship is widely assumed to be characterized by Grubb's power-law, derived from primate d...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Chen JJ,Pike GB

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1H NMR spin-echo spectroscopy has been used to study the metabolism of exogenous compounds in human erythrocytes. The non-invasive nature of the technique and the continuous monitoring makes it ideal to investigate both the conversion of substrates and the occurrence and the nature of the products. Hydrolysis rates ma...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Skibsted U,Hansen PE

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) was employed to determine the concentrations of N-acetylaspartate (NAA), total creatine (tCr), choline-containing compounds (Cho), myo-inositol (Ins), glucose (Glc), and lactate (Lac) in rat brain before and after 10 days of oral supplementation of 2.6 g Cr-monohydrate per ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Michaelis T,Wick M,Fujimori H,Matsumura A,Frahm J

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although diffusion MRI has shown promise for the characterization of breast cancer, it has low specificity to malignant subtypes. Higher specificity might be achieved if the effects of cell morphology and molecular exchange across cell membranes could be disentangled. The quantification of exchange might thus allow th...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Lasič S,Oredsson S,Partridge SC,Saal LH,Topgaard D,Nilsson M,Bryskhe K

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00