Design of adiabatic selective pulses using optimal control theory.

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the uncertainties on relative Cramér-Rao lower bound (rCRB) estimates and demonstrate their biasing effects in MRS quantification. THEORY AND METHODS:Simulations were performed to calculate the distribution of the computed rCRB (noted rCRB*) for several rCRB levels. One hundred thousand simulati...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bonny JM,Pagès G

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current MRI methods for myocardial motion and strain quantification have limited resolution because of Fourier space spectral peak interference. Methods have been proposed to remove this interference in order to improve resolution; however, these methods are clinically impractical due to the prolonged imaging times. I...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Agarwal HK,Prince JL,Abd-Elmoniem KZ

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the feasibility of an improved motion and flow robust methodology for imaging the pulmonary vasculature using non-contrast-enhanced, free-breathing, golden-angle radial MRI. METHODS:Healthy volunteers (n = 10, age 46 ± 11 years, 50% female) and patients (n = 2, ages 27 and 84, both female) were ima...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Fyrdahl A,Vargas Paris R,Nyrén S,Holst K,Ugander M,Lindholm P,Sigfridsson A

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T(2) quantification may augment diagnostic T(2)-weighted imaging; to improve cancer detection via auto-segmentation of multi-parametric acquisitions and to potentiate longitudinal studies of prostate cancer. However, robust quantitative techniques are not generally accessible or refined for clinical translation. This ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Foltz WD,Chopra S,Chung P,Bayley A,Catton C,Jaffray D,Wright GA,Haider MA,Ménard C

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:A purely experimental method for MRI-based transfer function (TF) determination is presented. A TF characterizes the potential for radiofrequency heating of a linear implant by relating the incident tangential electric field to a scattered electric field at its tip. We utilize the previously introduced transfer...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Tokaya JP,Raaijmakers AJE,Luijten PR,Sbrizzi A,van den Berg CAT

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compressed sensing has been of great interest to speed up the acquisition of MR images. The k-t group sparse (k-t GS) method has recently been introduced for dynamic MR images to exploit not just the sparsity, as in compressed sensing, but also the spatial group structure in the sparse representation. k-t GS achieves ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Prieto C,Usman M,Wild JM,Kozerke S,Batchelor PG,Schaeffter T

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selective multiple-quantum coherence transfer method has been applied to image polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) distributions in human breast tissues in vivo for cancer detection, with complete suppression of the unwanted lipid and water signals in a single scan. The Cartesian k-space mapping of PUFA in vivo usi...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zhu H,Rubin D,He Q

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed a device to compress small samples of articular cartilage while the samples were imaged in a 1.5 T imager. With the use of a piezoelectric piston, the device compressed 1-cm-diameter cylindrical samples of articular cartilage (200 microm) at a rate of 2 Hz. Simultaneously, we imaged the samples with a d...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hardy PA,Ridler AC,Chiarot CB,Plewes DB,Henkelman RM

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maximal intensity projection (MIP) is routinely used to view MRA and other volumetric angiographic data. The straightforward implementation of MIP is ray casting that traces a volumetric data set in a computationally expensive manner. This article reports a fast MIP algorithm using shear warp factorization and reduced...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Fang L,Wang Y,Qiu B,Qian Y

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial pH has been shown in animal models to be a sensitive indicator of ischemia. In vivo measurement in humans using 31p magnetic resonance spectroscopy is complicated by the overlap of blood 2,3-diphosphoglycerate peaks with the P(i) peak used for pH measurement. A "saturation transfer" method combined with spa...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Blamire AM,Rajagopalan B,Radda GK

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:An increasing number of studies show that magnetic susceptibility in white matter fibers is anisotropic and may be described by a tensor. However, the limited head rotation possible for in vivo human studies leads to an ill-conditioned inverse problem in susceptibility tensor imaging (STI). Here we suggest the ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Li X,van Zijl PC

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a flexible fast spin echo (FSE) triple-echo Dixon (FTED) technique. METHODS:An FSE pulse sequence was modified by replacing each readout gradient with three fast-switching bipolar readout gradients with minimal interecho dead time. The corresponding three echoes were used to generate three raw image...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Son JB,Hwang KP,Madewell JE,Bayram E,Hazle JD,Low RN,Ma J

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The water proton resonance frequency (PRF) is temperature dependent and can thus be used for magnetic resonance (MR) thermometry. Since lipid proton resonance frequencies do not depend on temperature, fat suppression is essential for PRF-based temperature mapping. The efficacy of echo-shifted (TE > TR) gradient-echo i...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： de Zwart JA,Vimeux FC,Delalande C,Canioni P,Moonen CT

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton spin relaxation rate constants in normal and hyponatremic rat brain were measured to determine the sensitivity of metabolite relaxation properties to cytotoxic edema and to quantify metabolite concentration in normal and edematous brain. Relaxation rate constants for protons of water and spectral regions with d...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Rooney WD,Ebisu T,Mancuso A,Graham S,Weiner MW,Maudsley AA

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquisition of complete three-dimensional (3D), segmented gradient-echo data sets to visualize the coronary arteries can be both time consuming and sensitive to motion, even with use of multiple breath-holding or respiratory gating. An alternate hybrid approach is demonstrated here, in which real-time interactive ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hardy CJ,Darrow RD,Pauly JM,Kerr AB,Dumoulin CL,Hu BS,Martin KM

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We propose a new acquisition to minimize the per-excitation encoding duration and improve the imaging capability for short T2 * species. METHODS:In the proposed ramped hybrid encoding (RHE) technique, gradients are applied before the radiofrequency (RF) pulse as in pointwise encoding time reduction with radial...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Jang H,Wiens CN,McMillan AB

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel multiple quantum filtering method is proposed that uses a doubly selective pulse termed Delays Alternating with Nutations for Tailored Excitation (DANTE) for multiple quantum preparation. This method selectively prepares GABA-3 and GABA-4 into a multiple quantum state and suppresses all other resonances at 3.0...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Shen J,Rothman DL,Brown P

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:High field T2* -weighted MR images of the cerebral cortex are increasingly used to study tissue susceptibility changes related to aging or pathologies. This paper presents a novel automated method for the computation of quantitative cortical measures and group-wise comparison using 7 Tesla T2* -weighted magnitu...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Doan NT,van Rooden S,Versluis MJ,Buijs M,Webb AG,van der Grond J,van Buchem MA,Reiber JHC,Milles J

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IVIM MR imaging is a method which generates images of diffusion and perfusion in vivo. Until now, intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) images have been obtained using spin-echo sequences with extragradient pulses, resulting in long acquisition times (typically 2 x 8 min 32 s). A new method is proposed here, using stead...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Le Bihan D

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reaching the full potential of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-positron emission tomography (PET) dual modality systems requires new methodologies in quantitative image analyses. In this study, methods are proposed to convert an arterial input function (AIF) derived from gadolinium-diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Poulin E,Lebel R,Croteau E,Blanchette M,Tremblay L,Lecomte R,Bentourkia M,Lepage M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron paramagnetic resonance imaging using nitroxides is a powerful method for visualizing the redox status modulated by oxidative stress in vivo. Typically, however, data acquisition times have been too slow to obtain a sufficient number of projections for three-dimensional images, when using continuous wave-elect...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Fujii H,Sato-Akaba H,Kawanishi K,Hirata H

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Quantitative myocardial perfusion mapping has advantages over qualitative assessment, including the ability to detect global flow reduction. However, it is not clinically available and remains a research tool. Building upon the previously described imaging sequence, this study presents algorithm and implementat...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Xue H,Brown LAE,Nielles-Vallespin S,Plein S,Kellman P

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A partial saturation method is described for obtaining rapid images of tissue 1H spin-lattice relaxation rates following administration of the paramagnetic contrast agent gadolinium-diethylenetriaminepentaacetate. The paramagnetic contribution to the relaxation rates is proportional to the concentration of contrast ag...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kennedy SD,Szczepaniak LS,Gibson SL,Hilf R,Foster TH,Bryant RG

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that when compared to conventional spin-echo (CSE) imaging for equivalent effective echo times, fast spin-echo (FSE) imaging experiments yield higher signal intensities for coupled spin systems, such as that for lipid. One hypothesis put forth for this phenomenon is the removal of scalar coupling-base...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Williamson DS,Mulken RV,Jakab PD,Jolesz FA

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MR imaging experiments were conducted to investigate the feasibility of estimating vascular pulse pressure waveforms from measurements of blood flow rates and vessel cross-sectional area. Blood flow waveforms were measured in the aorta's of three 25-30-kg pigs at multiple imaging sections using phase-contrast velocity...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Urchuk SN,Fremes SE,Plewes DB

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare experimental transverse relaxivities of iron oxide nanocrystals (IONC) as a function of clustering and magnetic field strength with different theoretical model predictions. THEORY AND METHODS:Well-defined IONC clusters in nanoemulsions (NEs) of which both size and IONC loading could be judiciously t...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hak S,Goa PE,Stenmark S,Bjerkholt FF,Haraldseth O

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the effect of realistic microstructural geometry on the susceptibility-weighted MR signal in white matter (WM), with application to demyelination. METHODS:Previous work has modeled susceptibility-weighted signals under the assumption that axons are cylindrical. In this study, we explored the imp...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Xu T,Foxley S,Kleinnijenhuis M,Chen WC,Miller KL

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In some dynamic applications of MRI, only a part of the field-of-view (FOV) actually undergoes dynamic changes. A class of methods, called reduced-FOV (rFOV) methods, convert the knowledge that some part of the FOV is static or not very dynamic into an increase in temporal resolution for the dynamic part, or into a re...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Madore B,Fredrickson JO,Alley MT,Pelc NJ

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The apparent propagator anisotropy (APA) is a new diffusion MRI metric that, while drawing on the benefits of the ensemble averaged propagator anisotropy (PA) compared to the fractional anisotropy (FA), can be estimated from single-shell data. THEORY AND METHODS:Computation of the full PA requires acquisition ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Aja-Fernández S,Tristán-Vega A,Jones DK

更新日期：2020-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A regularized algorithm is presented for localized in vivo shimming. The technique uses first- (X,Y,Z), second- (Z(2), ZX, ZY, X(2)-Y(2), XY), and third-order (Z(3)) shim coils, and is robust when applied to arbitrarily-shaped, as well as off-center, regions of interest (ROIs). A single-shot spiral pulse sequence is u...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kim DH,Adalsteinsson E,Glover GH,Spielman DM

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00