A computer simulation of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging.

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：:Quantitative magnetization transfer imaging yields indices describing the interactions between free water protons and immobile, macromolecular protons-including the macromolecular to free pool size ratio (PSR) and the rate of magnetization transfer between pools k(mf) . This study describes the first implementation of...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Dortch RD,Li K,Gochberg DF,Welch EB,Dula AN,Tamhane AA,Gore JC,Smith SA

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to develop a technique for rapid collection of chemical exchange saturation transfer images with the saturation varied to modulate signal loss transfer and enhance contrast. METHODS:Multi-echo Length and Offset VARied Saturation (MeLOVARS) divides the saturation pulse of length Tsat i...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Song X,Xu J,Xia S,Yadav NN,Lal B,Laterra J,Bulte JW,van Zijl PC,McMahon MT

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To improve imaging performance for body MRI with a local transmit array at 10.5T, the geometry of a dipole antenna was optimized to achieve lower peak specific absorption rate (SAR) levels and a more uniform transmit profile. METHODS:Electromagnetic simulations on a phantom were used to evaluate the SAR and ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Steensma B,van de Moortele PF,Ertürk A,Grant A,Adriany G,Luijten P,Klomp D,van den Berg N,Metzger G,Raaijmakers A

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is (1) to determine the correlation between T(1rho) and T(2) and degenerative grade in intervertebral discs using in vivo 3.0-T MRI, and (2) to determine the association between T(1rho) and T(2) and clinical findings as quantified by the SF-36 Questionnaire and Oswestry Disability Index. Sixt...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Blumenkrantz G,Zuo J,Li X,Kornak J,Link TM,Majumdar S

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Cross-relaxation imaging (CRI) is a family of quantitative magnetization transfer techniques that utilize images obtained with off-resonance saturation and longitudinal relaxation rate (R1) maps reconstructed by the variable flip angle (VFA) method. It was demonstrated recently that a significant bias in an app...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Mossahebi P,Yarnykh VL,Samsonov A

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parallel imaging presents a promising approach for MRI of hyperpolarized nuclei, as the penalty in signal-to-noise ratio typically encountered with (1)H MRI due to a reduction in acquisition time can be offset by an increase in flip angle. The signal-to-noise ratio of hyperpolarized MRI generally exhibits a strong dep...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Deppe MH,Parra-Robles J,Marshall H,Lanz T,Wild JM

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional (3D) coronary imaging has the potential to overcome problems resulting from vessel tortuosity and to reduce partial volume effects. With these techniques, however, acquisition times are long and respiratory motion artifacts problematical. This work describes the development of a method that applies p...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Jhooti P,Keegan J,Gatehouse PD,Collins S,Rowe A,Taylor AM,Firmin DN

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design of a piezoelectric-controlled trimmer capacitor and its use as a tuning element of an MRI surface coil at 63.8 MHz are described. It is found that image quality does not depend strongly on match of the coil to the transmission line but that tuning can be a significant factor. The work is intended to lead ev...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hyde JS,Rilling RJ,Jesmanowicz A,Kneeland JB

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elastase-induced changes in lung morphology and function were detected in spontaneously breathing rats using conventional proton MRI at 4.7 T. A single dose of porcine pancreatic elastase (75 U/100 g body weight) or vehicle (saline) was administered intratracheally (i.t.) to male Brown Norway (BN) rats. MRI fluid sign...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Quintana HK,Cannet C,Zurbruegg S,Blé FX,Fozard JR,Page CP,Beckmann N

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：:In this study, the precision and accuracy of a new method for measuring axial rotations of the lumbar vertebrae, which are thought to be increased in patients with degenerative spinal instability, were estimated. A standard image registration algorithm involving a user-selected center of rotation was adapted for this ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Rogers BP,Haughton VM,Arfanakis K,Meyerand ME

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In this work, 22 configurations for remote radiofrequency (RF) coil arrays consisting of different transmit element designs for 7 Tesla (T) ultrahigh-field MRI are compared by numerical simulations. METHODS:Investigated transmit RF element types are rectangular loops, micro striplines, micro striplines with me...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Rietsch SHG,Orzada S,Bitz AK,Gratz M,Ladd ME,Quick HH

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) enhancements and relaxation times of 31P metabolites in human calf were measured in 12 volunteers (4 men and 8 women) at 1.5 T using a dual tuned four-ring birdcage. The NOE enhancements of inorganic phosphate (Pi), phosphocreatine (PCr), gamma-, alpha-, and beta-nucleoside triphosphate...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Brown TR,Stoyanova R,Greenberg T,Srinivasan R,Murphy-Boesch J

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop the simultaneous acquisition of multiple voxels in localized MR spectroscopy (MRS) using sensitivity encoding, allowing reduced total scan time compared to conventional sequential single voxel (SV) acquisition methods. METHODS:Dual volume localization was used to simultaneously excite voxels in both...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Boer VO,Klomp DW,Laterra J,Barker PB

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To demonstrate feasibility of exploiting the spatial distribution of off-resonance surrounding metallic implants for accelerating multispectral imaging techniques. THEORY AND METHODS:Multispectral imaging (MSI) techniques perform time-consuming independent three-dimensional acquisitions with varying radio freq...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Smith MR,Artz NS,Koch KM,Samsonov A,Reeder SB

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The magnetization subtraction technique (MS), which is equivalent to the inversion recovery technique in strong magnetic fields, has been implemented in dynamic nuclear polarization-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DNPI). The general theoretical basis of the MS method, which can be applied to DNPI or to prepolariz...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Planinsic G,Grucker D,Stepisnik J

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel multislice B₁-mapping method dubbed dual refocusing echo acquisition mode is proposed, able to cover the whole transmit coil volume in only one second, which is more than an order of magnitude faster than established approaches. The dual refocusing echo acquisition mode technique employs a stimulated echo acqu...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Nehrke K,Börnert P

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro study was performed to investigate the effects of B(o) inhomogeneity on magnetic resonance images of flow. Controlled inhomogeneity gradients (Gi) were applied and the magnitude of the artifacts produced was quantified for different echo delay times (TE). Both steady and pulsatile flows were examined. In t...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Drangova M,Pelc NJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has recently been adopted as an investigational tool in the field of neuroscience. The signal changes induced by brain activations are small ( approximately 1-2%) at 1.5T. Therefore, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the time series used to calculate the functional maps is...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Parrish TB,Gitelman DR,LaBar KS,Mesulam MM

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple images acquired simultaneously from an array of surface coils can be combined to give a composite image with an improved signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and a large field of view. The composite images' SNR can be optimized by taking advantage of noise correlations between coils and phase shifts induced by surface...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hayes CE,Roemer PB

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous theoretical reports described the dependence of interpretation of the observed phase of the NMR signal on the time origin(s) of moment calculations and position's Taylor series expansion. This work provides experimental confirmation of predictions derived from that theory. For accelerative motion, experimenta...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Duerk JL,Simonetti OP,Hurst GC,Finelli DA

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a method that fits a multipool model to z-spectra acquired from non-steady state sequences, taking into account the effects of variations in T1 or B1 amplitude and the results estimating the parameters for a four-pool model to describe the z-spectrum from the healthy brain. METHODS:We compared measu...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Geades N,Hunt BAE,Shah SM,Peters A,Mougin OE,Gowland PA

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic imaging strategies often involve updating certain areas of k-space (i.e., the low spatial frequencies) more frequently than others. However, important dynamic signal changes may occur anywhere in k-space. In this study, a dynamic k-space sampling analysis method was developed to determine the energy error asso...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wu Y,Alexander AL

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To optimize 3D radial ultrashort echo time MRI for high resolution whole-lung imaging. METHODS:3D radial ultrashort echo time was implemented on a 3T scanner to investigate the effects of: (1) limited field-of-view excitation, (2) variable density readouts, and (3) radial oversampling. Improvements in noise pe...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Johnson KM,Fain SB,Schiebler ML,Nagle S

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate a computationally efficient method for optimizing the Cramér-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) of quantitative sequences without using approximations or an analytical expression of the signal. METHODS:Automatic differentiation was applied to Bloch simulations and used to optimize several quantitative seque...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lee PK,Watkins LE,Anderson TI,Buonincontri G,Hargreaves BA

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have noninvasively produced low-resolution, quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance images of cerebral blood flow in 2-ml voxels in eight cats. Typical signal-to-noise of 4 to 1 was obtained in cerebral voxels in 16.5-s epochs. Mean flow during normocapnia (paCO2 = 39 +/- 4 mm Hg) and hypercapnia (paCO2 = 62 +/- 4 ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Branch CA,Ewing JR,Helpern JA,Ordidge RJ,Butt S,Welch KM

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The soft tissue contrast obtained in fast imaging using rapidly repeated partial saturation sequences is usually based on differences in T1. We describe here an extension of the method which results in the development of clinically useful T2-based contrast. ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Young IR,Payne JA,Collins AG,Bydder GM

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging has achieved clinical importance and has become the primary tool in the investigation of head, spinal cord, pelvis, cancellous bone, pericardium (with gating), gallbladder, lymph node masses, and very soon, in the evaluation of joints. In many areas, particularly with respiratory and ECG gat...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Margulis AR,Fisher MR

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proton NMR relaxation and pulsed field gradient self-diffusion study of water in fibrin gels, plasma, and blood clots has been performed with special emphasis on the effect of the sol-gel and shrinkage transitions. Deuteron NMR in fibrin gels was also studied to supplement the proton data. It is shown that a measure...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Blinc A,Lahajnar G,Blinc R,Zidansek A,Sepe A

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00