31P NMR of mammalian cells encapsulated in alginate gels utilizing a new phosphate-free perfusion medium.

abstract：:Obesity causes damage to several organs, including the brain. Recent studies have been focusing on understanding the mechanisms through which obesity affects brain structure and function using neuroimaging techniques. A functional biomarker, such as cerebral blood flow (CBF), is a powerful tool that can be used to exp...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Peng SL,Chen CM

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of multichannel transmit coil layouts and parallel transmission (pTx) RF pulse design was evaluated with respect to transmit B1 (B1 (+)) homogeneity and specific absorption rate (SAR) at 3 T for a whole body coil. Five specific coils were modeled and compared: a 32-rung birdcage body coil (driven eithe...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Wu X,Zhang X,Tian J,Schmitter S,Hanna B,Strupp J,Pfeuffer J,Hamm M,Wang D,Nistler J,He B,Vaughan TJ,Ugurbil K,Van de Moortele PF

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the use of off-resonance saturation to further manipulate the blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) contrast of fMRI. A customized narrow bandwidth radiofrequency pulse, applied with a range of frequency offsets prior to selection of each slice, was designed and incorporated into a gradient ech...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Song AW,Wolff SD,Balaban RS,Jezzard P

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of NMR spectroscopic and microscopic MRI (microMRI) techniques were used to study proton dynamics in canine tendon and articular cartilage immersed in normal saline solution (NaCl solution) and high-concentration phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) solution. In a proton CPMG experiment on tendons, the T(2) relaxa...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Zheng S,Xia Y

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development and evaluation of new anticancer drugs are expedited when minimally invasive biomarkers of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic behaviour are available. Gene-directed enzyme prodrug therapy (GDEPT) is a suicide gene therapy in which the anticancer drug is activated in the tumor by an exogenous enzyme previo...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Mancini L,Davies L,Friedlos F,Falck-Miniotis M,Dzik-Jurasz AS,Springer CJ,Leach MO,Payne GS

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method to extract shapes of bubble polyhedra from three-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance image data of foam has been developed. The method consists of four steps: first, to compute series of maximum intensity projection images from the three-dimensional NMR image data of foam to visualize the network structure...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Kashiwagi K,Kose K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to fabricate and test a novel flexible flat cable antenna (FFCA) for MRI of the knee at different flexion angles. The FFCA was made of a flat cable, a tuning/matching circuit and a signal transmission line. To test its feasibility and validity, in vitro and in vivo experiments were carried out...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Jia F,Yuan H,Zhou D,Zhang J,Wang X,Fang J

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main aim of this study was to employ high-resolution MRI to investigate the spatiotemporal development of pathological features associated with contusive spinal cord injury (SCI) in mice. Experimental mice were subjected to either sham surgery or moderate contusive SCI. A 16.4-T small-animal MR system was employed...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Blomster LV,Cowin GJ,Kurniawan ND,Ruitenberg MJ

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate physiological variations of the water T2 relaxation time in vertebral bone marrow with respect to age, body mass index (BMI), sex and proton density fat fraction (PDFF) based on single-voxel magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) at 3 T. Multi-TE single-voxel STEAM MRS data of a...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Ruschke S,Syväri J,Dieckmeyer M,Junker D,Makowski MR,Baum T,Karampinos DC

更新日期：2020-11-17 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：:Diffusion tensor MRI (DTI) is a method for the noninvasive assessment of cellular organization and integrity in vivo. In this study, in vivo DTI was performed to demonstrate its ability to reflect photoreceptor cell alignment in adult C57BL/6 wild-type mice. Age-matched retinal degeneration 1 (rd1) mice were employed ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Chen J,Wang Q,Chen S,Wickline SA,Song SK

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of the evaluation of transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) guided needle biopsy of voxels identified as suspicious of malignancy on magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) in a large cohort of men (n = 83) with abnormal digital rectal examination (DRE) [prostate specific antigen (PSA) 0-4 ng/ml] or PSA less th...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Kumar V,Jagannathan NR,Kumar R,Thulkar S,Gupta SD,Hemal AK,Gupta NP

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free cytosolic [Mg2+] can be assessed in vivo by 31P MRS from the chemical shift of beta-ATP which in turn depends on the fraction of total ATP complexed to Mg2+ ions. The reliability of these in vivo measurements depends on the availability of an appropriate in vitro calibration to determine the limits of chemical sh...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Iotti S,Frassineti C,Alderighi L,Sabatini A,Vacca A,Barbiroli B

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sodium-calcium exchanger (NCX) is one of the transporters contributing to the control of intracellular calcium (Ca(2+)) concentration by normally mediating net Ca(2+) efflux. However, the reverse mode of the NCX can cause intracellular Ca(2+) concentration overload, which exacerbates the myocardial tissue injury r...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Waghorn B,Yang Y,Baba A,Matsuda T,Schumacher A,Yanasak N,Hu TC

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:We describe the optimal high-level postprocessing of single-voxel (1)H magnetic resonance spectra and assess the benefits and limitations of automated methods as diagnostic aids in the detection of recurrent brain tumor. In a previous clinical study, 90 long-echo-time single-voxel spectra were obtained from 52 patient...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Menze BH,Lichy MP,Bachert P,Kelm BM,Schlemmer HP,Hamprecht FA

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative magnetization transfer (qMT) technique was employed to quantify the ratio of the sizes of the bound and free water proton pools in ex vivo mouse brains. The goal was to determine the pool size ratio sensitivity to myelin. Fixed brains from both shiverer mice and control littermates were imaged. The pool...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Ou X,Sun SW,Liang HF,Song SK,Gochberg DF

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current state-of-the-art diagnosis method for deep tissue injury in muscle, a subcategory of pressure ulcers, is palpation. It is recognized that deep tissue injury is frequently preceded by altered biomechanical properties. A quantitative understanding of the changes in biomechanical properties preceding and duri...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Nelissen JL,Sinkus R,Nicolay K,Nederveen AJ,Oomens CWJ,Strijkers GJ

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone contains a significant fraction of water that is not detectable with ordinary Cartesian imaging sequences. The advent of ultra-short echo-time (UTE) methods has allowed the recovery of this submillisecond T(2)* water. In this work, we have developed a new three-dimensional hybrid-radial ultra-short echo-time (3D ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Rad HS,Lam SC,Magland JF,Ong H,Li C,Song HK,Love J,Wehrli FW

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorus MRSI (31 P-MRSI) using a spiral-trajectory readout at 7 T was developed for high temporal resolution mapping of the mitochondrial capacity of exercising human skeletal muscle. The sensitivity and localization accuracy of the method was investigated in phantoms. In vivo performance was assessed in 12 volunte...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Valkovič L,Chmelík M,Meyerspeer M,Gagoski B,Rodgers CT,Krššák M,Andronesi OC,Trattnig S,Bogner W

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under normal conditions, the heart mainly relies on fatty acid oxidation to meet its energy needs. Changes in myocardial fuel preference are noted in the diseased and failing heart. The magnetic resonance signal enhancement provided by spin hyperpolarization allows the metabolism of substrates labeled with carbon-13 t...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Yoshihara HAI,Bastiaansen JAM,Karlsson M,Lerche MH,Comment A,Schwitter J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and proton (1H) magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) provide structural and biochemical information, including vascular volume, vascular permeability and tissue metabolism. In this study, we performed analysis of the enhancement characteristic from DCE-...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Lipnick S,Liu X,Sayre J,Bassett LW,Debruhl N,Thomas MA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

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 signal decay with increasing b-factor at fixed echo time from brain tissue in vivo has been measured using a line scan Stejskal-Tanner spin echo diffusion approach in eight healthy adult volunteers. The use of a 175 ms echo time and maximum gradient strengths of 10 mT/m allowed 64 b-factors to be sampled, ranging ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Mulkern RV,Gudbjartsson H,Westin CF,Zengingonul HP,Gartner W,Guttmann CR,Robertson RL,Kyriakos W,Schwartz R,Holtzman D,Jolesz FA,Maier SE

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major goals of hyperpolarized-gas MR imaging has been to obtain (129)Xe dissolved-phase images in humans. Since the dissolved-phase signal is much weaker than the gas-phase signal, highly optimized MR pulse sequences are required to obtain adequate images during a single breath-hold. In particular, a solid ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Ruppert K,Brookeman JR,Hagspiel KD,Driehuys B,Mugler JP 3rd

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we aimed to assess the effects of continuous formalin fixation on diffusion and relaxation metrics of the ex vivo porcine heart at 7 T. Magnetic resonance imaging was performed on eight piglet hearts using a 7 T whole body system. Hearts were measured fresh within 3 hours of cardiac arrest followed by im...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Lohr D,Terekhov M,Veit F,Schreiber LM

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent analysis of the optimization of magnetization transfer experiments to estimate first-order rate constants is extended to the design of experiments for measuring these constants and T1 when both parameters are initially unknown. When the number of measurement times is fixed, an optimal design will consist of a...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Katki H,Weiss GH,Kiefer JE,Taitelbaum H,Spencer RG

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A current limitation of MR spectroscopic imaging of multiple skeletal muscles is prolonged scan duration. A significant reduction in the total scan duration using the echo-planar correlated spectroscopic imaging (EP-COSI) sequence was accomplished using two bipolar readout trains with different phase-encoded echoes fo...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Furuyama JK,Nagarajan R,Roberts CK,Lee CC,Hahn TJ,Thomas MA

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) provides an indirect measure of tissue structure on a microscopic scale. To date, DTI is the only imaging method that provides such information in vivo, and has proven to be a valuable tool in both research and clinical settings. In this study, we investigated the relationship between wh...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Choe AS,Stepniewska I,Colvin DC,Ding Z,Anderson AW

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) potentially provides the ability to detect small solute pools through indirect measurements of attenuated water signals. However, CEST effects may be diluted by various competing effects, such as non-specific magnetization transfer (MT) and asymmetric MT effects, water long...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Li H,Zu Z,Zaiss M,Khan IS,Singer RJ,Gochberg DF,Bachert P,Gore JC,Xu J

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00