Use of a projection reconstruction method to decrease motion sensitivity in diffusion-weighted MRI.

abstract：:Golgi impregnation is unique in its ability to display the dendritic trees and axons of large numbers of individual neurons by histology. Here we apply magnetic resonance microscopy to visualize the neuroanatomy of animal models by combining histologic fixation chemistry with paramagnetic contrast agents. Although the...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zhang X,Bearer EL,Perles-Barbacaru AT,Jacobs RE

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Designing multidimensional radiofrequency pulses for clinical application must take into account the local specific absorption rate (SAR) as controlling the global SAR does not guarantee suppression of hot spots. The maximum peak SAR, averaged over an N grams cube (local NgSAR), must be kept under certain safety limit...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sbrizzi A,Hoogduin H,Lagendijk JJ,Luijten P,Sleijpen GL,van den Berg CA

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dependence of 1/T1 on the magnetic field strength (the relaxation dispersion) has been measured at 37 degrees C on autopsy samples of human brain gray and white matter at field strengths corresponding to proton Larmor frequencies between 10 kHz and 50 MHz (0.0002-1.2 T). Additional measurements of 1/T1 and 1/T2 ha...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Fischer HW,Rinck PA,Van Haverbeke Y,Muller RN

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At high magnetic fields the performance of a volume-type body coil inside a human sized MR-scanner is influenced by the waveguide action of the scanner's bore. This can result in undesirable strong radio frequency fields B1+) outside the coil's target volume. A radio frequency (RF) transmit system, exploiting this wav...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Andreychenko A,Kroeze H,Klomp DW,Lagendijk JJ,Luijten PR,van den Berg CA

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:MUSSELS is a one-step iterative reconstruction method for multishot diffusion weighted (msDW) imaging. The current work presents an efficient implementation, termed IRLS MUSSELS, that enables faster reconstruction to enhance its utility for high-resolution diffusion MRI studies. METHODS:The recently proposed M...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Mani M,Aggarwal HK,Magnotta V,Jacob M

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two different types of (co-registered) images of the same slice of tissue will generally have different spatial resolutions. The judicious pixel-by-pixel combination of their data can be accomplished to yield a single image exhibiting properties of both. Here, axial (18)FDG PET and (1)H(2)O MR images of the human brai...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sammi MK,Felder CA,Fowler JS,Lee JH,Levy AV,Li X,Logan J,Pályka I,Rooney WD,Volkow ND,Wang GJ,Springer CS Jr

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Measurement of venous oxygenation (Yv) is a critical step toward quantitative assessment of brain oxygen metabolism, a key index in many brain disorders. The present study aims to develop a noninvasive, rapid, and reproducible method to measure Yv in a vessel-specific manner. THEORY:The method, T2-Relaxation-U...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Krishnamurthy LC,Liu P,Ge Y,Lu H

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To obtain multicontrast images including fat-suppressed contrast image, a novel multicontrast imaging method using an SSFP sequence with alternating RF flip angles is proposed. METHODS:The proposed method uses the balanced SSFP sequence with 2 flip angles. In general, the conventional balanced SSFP sequence ha...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kim J,Seo H,So S,Park H

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is demonstrated that the stability of the Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) sequence reflects the existence of a steady state solution to the Bloch equations in the absence of T2 and T1 decay. The steady state theory is then used to evaluate the performance of low flip angle RARE imaging sequences with both constant...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Alsop DC

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To separate the spectrally overlapped lactate and lipid signals at 1.3 ppm using diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance spectroscopy (DW-MRS) based on their large diffusivity difference. METHODS:DW-MRS was applied to the gel phantoms containing lactate and lipid droplets, and to the rat brain tumors. Lactate an...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wang AM,Leung GK,Kiang KM,Chan D,Cao P,Wu EX

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Assessing the functionality of muscle fibers is essential to monitor both pathological and physiological processes. Here, we present a new method for accurate, quantitative measurement of muscle contraction with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an electrical muscle stimulator (EMS), hence allowing the dir...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Deligianni X,Pansini M,Garcia M,Hirschmann A,Schmidt-Trucksäss A,Bieri O,Santini F

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a 32-echo imaging pulse sequence, T2 relaxation decay curves were acquired from five white- and six gray-matter brain structures outlined in 12 normal volunteers. The water contents of white and gray matter were 0.71 (0.01) and 0.83 (0.03) g/ml, respectively. All white-matter structures had significantly higher ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Whittall KP,MacKay AL,Graeb DA,Nugent RA,Li DK,Paty DW

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing interest in quantitative T(1) mapping techniques for a variety of applications. Several methods for T(1) quantification have been described. The acquisition of two spoiled gradient-echo data sets with different flip angles allows for the calculation of T(1) maps with a high spatial resolution and a...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Preibisch C,Deichmann R

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Direct mapping of neuronal currents using MRI would have fundamental impacts on brain functional imaging. Previous reports indicated that the stimulus-induced rotary saturation (SIRS) mechanism had the best potential of direct detection of neural oscillations; however, it lacked the high-sensitivity level neede...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Jiang X,Sheng J,Li H,Chai Y,Zhou X,Wu B,Guo X,Gao JH

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To measure the T1 and T2 relaxation times of water, metabolites, and macromolecules in the rat brain in vivo at 17.2T and achieve absolute quantification of the neurochemical profile. Relaxation times were compared with values from the literature found at lower magnetic fields. METHODS:(1) H NMR spectra were m...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lopez-Kolkovsky AL,Mériaux S,Boumezbeur F

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain water proton (1H2O) longitudinal relaxation time constants (T1) were obtained from three healthy individuals at magnetic field strengths (B0) of 0.2 Tesla (T), 1.0T, 1.5T, 4.0T, and 7.0T. A 5-mm midventricular axial slice was sampled using a modified Look-Locker technique with 1.5 mm in-plane resolution, and 32 ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Rooney WD,Johnson G,Li X,Cohen ER,Kim SG,Ugurbil K,Springer CS Jr

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To accelerate dynamic MR applications using infimal convolution of total generalized variation functionals (ICTGV) as spatio-temporal regularization for image reconstruction. THEORY AND METHODS:ICTGV comprises a new image prior tailored to dynamic data that achieves regularization via optimal local balancing b...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Schloegl M,Holler M,Schwarzl A,Bredies K,Stollberger R

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallic particles have shaped the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for molecular and cellular imaging. Although these particles have generally been developed for extracellular residence, either as blood pool contrast agents or targeted contrast agents, the coopted use of these particles for intracellular label...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Shapiro EM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variations in T(1ρ) with locking-field strength (T(1ρ) dispersion) may be used to estimate proton exchange rates. We developed a novel approach utilizing the second derivative of the dispersion curve to measure exchange in a model system of cross-linked polyacrylamide gels. These gels were varied in relative compositi...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Cobb JG,Xie J,Gore JC

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-quality, high-resolution, proton-decoupled natural-abundance 13C NMR spectra have been obtained in vitro at 100.6 MHz from unprocessed human pathology specimens of tumors and adjacent nonneoplastic control tissues from lung, colon, and prostate. In these preliminary studies, specific molecular parameters were ide...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Halliday KR,Fenoglio-Preiser C,Sillerud LO

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for evaluating the sensitivity of MRI protocols to changes in an arbitrary number of tissue parameters over a broad range of parameter values is presented. This analysis is useful for choosing an optimal basis set of images for either a "survey" protocol or tissue segmentation algorithms. A survey protocol is...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： McVeigh ER,Henkelman RM,Bronskill MJ

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop and validate a method for choosing the optimal two-dimensional CAIPIRINHA kernel for subtraction contrast-enhanced MR angiography (CE-MRA) and estimate the degree of image quality improvement versus that of some reference acceleration parameter set at R ≥ 8. METHODS:A metric based on patient-specifi...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Weavers PT,Borisch EA,Riederer SJ

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phase contrast flow velocity measurements were performed in six healthy volunteers and 30 patients with arteriosclerotic disease. The iliac arteries were investigated in 8 cases and the femoral arteries in 28 cases. In the first 24 patients, 16 evenly distributed data sets were acquired during one cardiac cycle. In th...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Krug B,Kugel H,Harnischmacher U,Heindel W,Schmidt R,Krings F

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Coil-by-coil reconstruction methods are followed by coil combination to obtain a single image representing a spin density map. Typical coil combination methods, such as square-root sum-of-squares and adaptive coil combining, yield images that exhibit spatially varying modulation of image intensity. Existing pra...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Gol Gungor D,Potter LC

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study undersampled projection reconstruction (PR) was used for rapid catheter imaging in the heart, employing steady-state free precession (SSFP) contrast. Active catheters and phased-array coils were used for combined imaging of anatomy and catheter position in swine. Real-time imaging of catheter position wa...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Peters DC,Lederman RJ,Dick AJ,Raman VK,Guttman MA,Derbyshire JA,McVeigh ER

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:As the premiere modality for brain imaging, MRI could find wider applicability if lightweight, portable systems were available for siting in unconventional locations such as intensive care units, physician offices, surgical suites, ambulances, emergency rooms, sports facilities, or rural healthcare sites. METH...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Cooley CZ,Stockmann JP,Armstrong BD,Sarracanie M,Lev MH,Rosen MS,Wald LL

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of cardiac viability and functional information enhances the identification of different heart tissues in the setting of ischemic heart disease. A method has recently been proposed for obtaining black-blood delayed-enhancement (DE) viability images using the stimulated-echo acquisition mode (STEAM) MRI...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ibrahim el-SH,Stuber M,Kraitchman DL,Weiss RG,Osman NF

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was the simulation and measurement of balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) slice profiles for a detailed analysis of the influence of off-resonance effects on slice profile shape and bSSFP signal intensity. Due to the frequency response function of the bSSFP sequence, measurements th...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Staehle F,Leupold J,Hennig J,Markl M

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：: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