Doubly tuned local coils for MRI and MRS at 1.5 T.

abstract：:The aim of this study was to detect salvageable peri-infarction myocardium by MRI in rats after infarction, using with a double contrast agent (CA) protocol at 7 Tesla. Intravascular superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) nanoparticles and an extracellular paramagnetic CA (Gd-DOTA) were used to characterize the peri-infa...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Chapon C,Lemaire L,Franconi F,Marescaux L,Legras P,Denizot B,Le Jeune JJ

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanostructured hydrogels have been developed as synthetic tissues and scaffolds for cell and drug delivery, and as guides for tissue regeneration. A fundamental problem in the development of synthetic hydrogels is that implanted gel structure is difficult to monitor noninvasively. This work demonstrates that the aggre...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Colomb J,Louie K,Massia SP,Bennett KM

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:Magnetic resonance (MR) diffusion imaging is a useful technique with which to increase our understanding of pathologic damage to the central nervous system. To fully quantitate diffusion and anisotropy in the spinal cord, as in other tissues, it is necessary to determine the diffusion tensor. If spinal cord diffusion ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Clark CA,Werring DJ,Miller DH

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To demonstrate the feasibility of imaging a bolus of co-polarized [1-13 C]pyruvate and 13 C-urea to simultaneously assess both metabolism and perfusion in the rodent heart. METHODS:Copolarized [1-13 C]pyruvate and 13 C-urea was imaged using a multi-echo, flow-sensitized spiral pulse sequence. Healthy rats were...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lau AZ,Miller JJ,Robson MD,Tyler DJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:The effects of macroscopic background field gradients upon 2D gradient echo images of inhaled (3)He in the human lung were investigated at 1.5 T. Effective compensation of in-slice signal loss in (3)He gradient echo images was then demonstrated using a multiple acquisition interleaved single gradient echo sequence. Th...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wild JM,Fichele S,Woodhouse N,Paley MN,Swift A,Kasuboski L,van Beek EJ

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Treatments using high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) in the abdominal region remain challenging as a result of respiratory organ motion. A novel method is described here to achieve 3D motion-compensated ultrasound (US) MR-guided HIFU therapy using simultaneous ultrasound and MRI. METHODS:A truly hybrid US...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Celicanin Z,Manasseh G,Petrusca L,Scheffler K,Auboiroux V,Crowe LA,Hyacinthe JN,Natsuaki Y,Santini F,Becker CD,Terraz S,Bieri O,Salomir R

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetic analysis with mathematical models has become increasingly important to quantify physiological parameters in computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI). The modified Kety/Tofts model and the graphical (Patlak) model have been widely applied to DCE-M...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Chen H,Li F,Zhao X,Yuan C,Rutt B,Kerwin WS

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A potential relationship between structural compartments in neural tissue and NMR parameters may increase the specificity of MRI in diagnosing diseases. Nevertheless, our understanding of MR of nerves and white matter is limited, particularly the influence of various water compartments on the MR signal is not known. I...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Peled S,Cory DG,Raymond SA,Kirschner DA,Jolesz FA

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Within multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions iron is present in chronically activated microglia. Thus, iron detection with MRI might provide a biomarker for chronic inflammation within lesions. Here, we examine contributions of iron and myelin to magnetic susceptibility of lesions on quantitative susceptibility mappi...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wisnieff C,Ramanan S,Olesik J,Gauthier S,Wang Y,Pitt D

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop velocity-selective (VS) MR angiography (MRA) protocols for arteriography and venography with whole-brain coverage. METHODS:Tissue suppression using velocity-selective saturation (VSS) pulse trains is sensitive to radiofrequency field (B1 +) inhomogeneity. To reduce its sensitivity, we replaced the l...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Li W,Xu F,Schär M,Liu J,Shin T,Zhao Y,van Zijl PCM,Wasserman BA,Qiao Y,Qin Q

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We demonstrate the feasibility of MRI with missing-pulse steady-state free precession (MP-SSFP) in a 4T magnet with artificially degraded homogeneity. METHODS:T1 , T2 , and diffusion contrast of MP-SSFP was simulated with constant and alternate radiofrequency (RF) phase using an extended phase graph. To valida...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kobayashi N,Parkinson B,Idiyatullin D,Adriany G,Theilenberg S,Juchem C,Garwood M

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic field homogeneity is of major concern for in vivo spectroscopy, and with the increased use of volumetric chemical shift imaging (CSI) techniques, the ability to shim over a large volume of tissue is now one of the primary limiting constraints in performing these studies. In vivo shimming is routinely performe...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Spielman DM,Adalsteinsson E,Lim KO

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For clinical 31P MR spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) studies, where signal averaging is necessary, some improvement of sensitivity and spatial response function may be achieved by acquiring data over a spherical k-space volume and varying the number of averages acquired in proportion to the desired spatial filter. Eight d...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hugg JW,Maudsley AA,Weiner MW,Matson GB

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An automatic fMRI protocol for the investigation of the human auditory cortex has been developed. For the activation of the auditory system, the scanner noise itself is the source of sound. Rapid switching of B0 gradients allows the generation of tones of defined frequencies and amplitude on a conventional scanner wit...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bilecen D,Radü EW,Scheffler K

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction of a Gaussian weighting function into the phase encoding of the spin-echo imaging method via variable tip angle excitation, with concomitant optimization of the recycle delay, is shown to increase the sensitivity of T2-weighted imaging by up to 40%. In addition, the Gibbs artifact associated with sharp bo...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Webb AG,Clarkson RB

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Acquisition of high-resolution imaging data using multiple excitations without the sensitivity to fluctuations of the transverse magnetization phase, which is a major problem of multi-shot MRI. THEORY AND METHODS:The concept of superresolution MRI based on microscopic tagging is analyzed using an analogy with ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hennel F,Tian R,Engel M,Pruessmann KP

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：:Quantitative MRI assessment of leukoencephalopathy is difficult because the MRI properties of leukoencephalopathy significantly overlap those of normal tissue. This report describes the use of an automated procedure for longitudinal measurement of tissue volume and relaxation times to quantify leukoencephalopathy. Ima...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Reddick WE,Glass JO,Langston JW,Helton KJ

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen, sodium, and fluorine (added F-) NMR spectra of venous and oxygenated blood were measured. The fluorine resonance was seen as a single peak in both samples, and all three resonances exhibited the same deoxy-oxy shift. Because F- exchanges slowly across the red cell membrane, and because sodium is 95% extracel...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Brooks RA,Brunetti A,Alger JR,Di Chiro G

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo MR spectroscopy (MRS) studies have shown reductions in NAA/Cr levels in patients with severe neurocognitive deficits due to AIDS dementia complex (ADC), also known as neuroAIDS. The relationship between the cellular changes within the brain during neuroAIDS and the role of NAA/Cr as a metabolic marker remains ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lentz MR,Westmoreland SV,Lee V,Ratai EM,Halpern EF,González RG

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An array of 33 prototype polypeptides was examined as putative contrast agents that can be distinguished from each other based on the chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) mechanism. These peptides were chosen based on predictions of the chemical exchange rates of exchangeable amide, amine, and hydroxyl protons...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： McMahon MT,Gilad AA,DeLiso MA,Berman SM,Bulte JW,van Zijl PC

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We describe a 2 × 6 channel sodium/proton array for knee MRI at 3T. Multielement coil arrays are desirable because of well-known signal-to-noise ratio advantages over volume and single-element coils. However, low tissue-coil coupling that is characteristic of coils operating at low frequency can make the potent...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Brown R,Lakshmanan K,Madelin G,Alon L,Chang G,Sodickson DK,Regatte RR,Wiggins GC

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The previously reported concept for quantitative magnetization transfer (MT) imaging using balanced steady-state free precession (SSFP) is applied to nonbalanced SSFP sequences. This offers the possibility to derive quantitative MT parameters of targets with high-susceptibility variations such as the musculoskeletal s...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Gloor M,Scheffler K,Bieri O

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cirrhosis is an important and growing public health problem, affecting millions of Americans and many more people internationally. A pathological hallmark of the progression to cirrhosis is the development of liver fibrosis, so that monitoring the appearance and progression of liver fibrosis can be used to guide thera...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Chung S,Breton E,Mannelli L,Axel L

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop and evaluate a method for volumetric contrast-enhanced MRI of the liver, with high spatial and temporal resolutions, for combined dynamic imaging and MR angiography (MRA) using a single injection of contrast agent. METHODS:An interleaved variable density (IVD) undersampling pattern was implemented i...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Salmani Rahimi M,Korosec FR,Wang K,Holmes JH,Motosugi U,Bannas P,Reeder SB

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution turbo spin echo (TSE) images have demonstrated important details of carotid artery morphology; however, it is evident that pulsatile blood and wall motion related to the cardiac cycle are still significant sources of image degradation. Although ECG gating can reduce artifacts due to cardiac-induced pul...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Mendes J,Parker DL,Hulet J,Treiman GS,Kim SE

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proton exchange rates between water and the hydroxyl protons of threonine, serine, tyrosine, the amino protons of lysine, and the guanidinium protons of arginine were measured in the pH range 0.5 to 8.5 and for the temperatures 4 degrees C, 10 degrees C, 20 degrees C, 30 degrees C, and 36 degrees C. The intrinsic ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Liepinsh E,Otting G

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phased-array coils distribute the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) performance of their small component surface coils over the larger area covered by the entire array. The inhomogeneous sensitivity profiles of the component surface coils result in images with very high signal near the phased-array and decreased signal...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Murakami JW,Hayes CE,Weinberger E

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00