MRI evaluation of myocardial perfusion without a contrast agent using magnetization transfer.

abstract：:This work aimed to investigate the effects of administering Gd-DTPA on the BOLD effect, and to determine the feasibility of using this approach to measure fractional changes in blood volume and blood oxygenation on neuronal activation during a visual paradigm. A linear relationship between cortical R(2)(*) and the int...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Pears JA,Francis ST,Butterworth SE,Bowtell RW,Gowland PA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new ultrafast MR imaging method is proposed and tested, which enables whole-brain fMRI with a true temporal resolution of 1 sec. The method combines a 3D PRESTO pulse sequence with the concept of sensitivity-encoding with multiple receiver coils (SENSE). The so-called PRESTO-SENSE technique is demonstrated on a set ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Golay X,Pruessmann KP,Weiger M,Crelier GR,Folkers PJ,Kollias SS,Boesiger P

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the use of image registration for correcting respiratory motion in free breathing lung T1 mapping acquisition in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). THEORY AND METHODS:The method presented used image registration to synthetic images during postprocessing to remove respiratory motion. S...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Saunders LC,Eaden JA,Bianchi SM,Swift AJ,Wild JM

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential application of gas microbubbles as a unique intravascular susceptibility contrast agent for MRI has not been fully explored. In this study, the MR susceptibility effect of an ultrasound microbubble contrast agent, Optison, was studied with rat liver imaging at 7 T. Optison suspension in two different dos...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wong KK,Huang I,Kim YR,Tang H,Yang ES,Kwong KK,Wu EX

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a wideband cardiac perfusion pulse sequence and test whether it is capable of suppressing image artifacts in patients with a cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED), while not exceeding the specific absorption rate (SAR) limit (2.0 W/kg). METHODS:A wideband perfusion pulse sequence was develope...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hong K,Collins JD,Knight BP,Carr JC,Lee DC,Kim D

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most widely-used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technique is based on the blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) effect, which requires at least partial uncoupling between cerebral blood flow (CBF) and oxygen consumption changes during increased mental activity. To compare BOLD and CBF effects duri...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kim SG,Uğurbil K

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Compare the transmural distribution of forward creatine kinase reaction (kf,CK ) and ATP hydrolysis rate (kr,ATPase ) in the myocardium of normal porcine heart. Rate constants were extracted from partially relaxed spectra by applying the T1nom method, effectively reducing data acquisition time by up to an order...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Jang A,Xiong Q,Zhang P,Zhang J

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The integrated T(1)-T(2) characteristics of rat brain and trigeminal nerve water were studied in vivo using a rapid method for acquiring a series of images that depend on T(1) and T(2) relaxation times. Gray matter regions showed only one signal component in both the T(1) and T(2) domains. Trigeminal nerve, however, w...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Does MD,Gore JC

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The signals of water in the different compartments of rat sciatic nerve are resolved in the (2)H double-quantum-filtered NMR spectrum, due to their different quadrupolar splittings and relaxation rates. This resolution allowed the independent measurement of the water diffusion coefficients in the different compartment...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Seo Y,Shinar H,Morita Y,Navon G

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetization transfer experiments using an off-resonance irradiation technique were performed on bovine serum albumin solutions by varying the irradiation frequency and the concentration. A transition of the magnetization transfer spectrum from Lorentzian to Gaussian line shape was observed around the critical concen...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Iino M

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MRS has considerable potential for the measurement of drug pharmacokinetics in vivo. In this study single- and double-resonance (31)P MRS was used to investigate the biodistribution, pharmacokinetics, and metabolism of ifosfamide following administration of 500 mg/kg ifosfamide in guinea pigs. (1)H-decoupling was foun...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Mancini L,Payne GS,Dzik-Jurasz AS,Leach MO

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An arterial spin labeling technique using separate RF labeling and imaging coils was used to obtain multislice perfusion images of the human brain at 3 T. Continuous RF irradiation at a peak power of 0.3 W was applied to the carotid arteries to adiabatically invert spins. Labeling was achieved without producing magnet...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zaharchuk G,Ledden PJ,Kwong KK,Reese TG,Rosen BR,Wald LL

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assumption of linear time-invariance (LTI) in the human primary somatosensory cortex (SI) is assessed for fMRI signals generated by variable-duration vibrotactile stimuli. Predictions based on time-shifted summation (TSS) of responses to 2 s stimuli overestimate observed BOLD signal amplitudes in response to longe...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Nangini C,Macintosh BJ,Tam F,Staines WR,Graham SJ

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of ternary complexes between Gd-DTPA, Gd-DTPA-BMA, and Gd-DOTA, used as contrast enhancement agents in MRI and the endogenously available carbonate and phosphate ions, has been demonstrated. The extent of ternary complex formation and its effect on the proton relaxation, measured at 9 MHz, rates is negligibl...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Burai L,Hietapelto V,Király R,Tóth E,Brücher E

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based techniques for assessing liver iron concentration (LIC) have been limited by single scanner calibration against biopsy. Here, the calibration of spin-density projection-assisted (SDPA) R2-MRI (FerriScan®) in iron-overloaded β-thalassemia patients treated with the iron chel...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： St Pierre TG,El-Beshlawy A,Elalfy M,Al Jefri A,Al Zir K,Daar S,Habr D,Kriemler-Krahn U,Taher A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperpolarized 129Xe has been used to obtain gas phase images of mouse lung in vivo, showing distinct ventilation variation as a function of the breathing cycle. Spectra of 129Xe in the thorax show complex structure in both the gas phase (-4 to 3 ppm) and tissue-dissolved (190-205 ppm) regions. The alveolar gas peak s...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wagshul ME,Button TM,Li HF,Liang Z,Springer CS,Zhong K,Wishnia A

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this work was to identify ventricular shape-based biomarkers in MR images to discriminate between patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and healthy elderly. Clinical MR images were collected for 58 patients and 28 age-matched healthy controls. After normalizing all the images the ventricular cerebrospinal ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ferrarini L,Palm WM,Olofsen H,van der Landen R,van Buchem MA,Reiber JH,Admiraal-Behloul F

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For protons diffusing among a system of magnetic particles, the process by which initial phase coherence is lost depends substantially on particle size. In this article, evidence for three dephasing mechanisms is presented: an incremental process at small particle sizes (motional averaging regime), a discrete process ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： de Haan HW

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is presented that employs the inherent spectral selectivity of the Steady-State Free Precession (SSFP) pulse sequence to provide a spectral band of suppression. At TE = TR/2, SSFP partitions the magnetization into two phase-opposed spectral components. Z-storing one of these components simultaneously further ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Derbyshire JA,Herzka DA,McVeigh ER

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aims of this study were (i) to establish a robust and fast method to quantify hepatocellular phosphorus compounds in molar concentration on a 3T clinical scanner, (ii) to evaluate its reproducibility, and (iii) to test its feasibility for a use in large cohort studies. METHOD:Proton-decoupled (31) P magnet...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Laufs A,Livingstone R,Nowotny B,Nowotny P,Wickrath F,Giani G,Bunke J,Roden M,Hwang JH

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flow-independent angiography is a non-contrast-enhanced technique that can generate vessel contrast even with reduced blood flow in the lower extremities. A method is presented for producing these angiograms with magnetization-prepared balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP). Because bSSFP yields bright fat sign...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Cukur T,Lee JH,Bangerter NK,Hargreaves BA,Nishimura DG

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new decoupling sequence, PBAR, is described for broadband heteronuclear decoupling in vivo in humans at 1.5T. The sequence uses non-adiabatic, frequency- and amplitude-modulated inversion pulses designed to minimize decoupling sidebands at low applied gammaB(2) RF field levels and to cover only the narrow range of r...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Barker PB,Golay X,Artemov D,Ouwerkerk R,Smith MA,Shaka AJ

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron-mediated tissue damage is present in cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative diseases and neurotrauma. Brain microbleeds are often present in these maladies and are assuming increasing clinical importance. Because brain microbleeds present a source of pathologic iron to the brain, the noninvasive quantification of ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： McAuley G,Schrag M,Sipos P,Sun SW,Obenaus A,Neelavalli J,Haacke EM,Holshouser B,Madácsi R,Kirsch W

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:The rotationally invariant trace/3 apparent diffusion coefficients (ADC) of N-acetyl aspartate (NAA), creatine and phosphocreatine (tCr), and choline (Cho) were determined using a diffusion-weighted stimulated echo acquisition mode sequence at 3 T in three separate human brain regions, namely the subcortical white mat...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ellegood J,Hanstock CC,Beaulieu C

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantification of localized in vivo brain 1H spectra is in general very difficult due to excessive spectral overlap. In addition, intensity distortions may result from the effects of the NMR pulse sequence on the spins. This paper describes an approach to solving these problems. It comprises optimization of the pulse ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： de Graaf AA,Bovée WM

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To accelerate whole-heart three-dimension MR angiography (MRA) by using a variable-density Poisson-disc undersampling pattern and a compressed sensing (CS) reconstruction algorithm, and compare the results with sensitivity encoding (SENSE). METHODS:For whole-heart MRA, a prospective variable-density Poisson-di...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Moghari MH,Uecker M,Roujol S,Sabbagh M,Geva T,Powell AJ

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A magnetic resonance imaging method is presented for quantifying the degree to which water diffusion in biologic tissues is non-Gaussian. Since tissue structure is responsible for the deviation of water diffusion from the Gaussian behavior typically observed in homogeneous solutions, this method provides a specific me...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Jensen JH,Helpern JA,Ramani A,Lu H,Kaczynski K

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a deep learning-based Bayesian estimation for MRI reconstruction. METHODS:We modeled the MRI reconstruction problem with Bayes's theorem, following the recently proposed PixelCNN++ method. The image reconstruction from incomplete k-space measurement was obtained by maximizing the posterior possibili...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Luo G,Zhao N,Jiang W,Hui ES,Cao P

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method is presented to detect, localize, and quantify myocardial kinematics by measuring the material rate-of-strain tensor at each pixel in gated NMR images of the heart. The immediate, local effect of muscular activity is self-deformation, and the strain tensor is the basic mathema...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wedeen VJ

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00