Intravoxel incoherent motion imaging using steady-state free precession.

abstract：:The estrogen receptor (ER) is a major prognostic biomarker of breast cancer, currently determined in surgical specimens by immunohistochemistry. Two new ER-targeted probes, pyridine-tetra-acetate-Gd chelate (PTA-Gd) conjugated either to 17β-estradiol (EPTA-Gd) or to tamoxifen (TPTA-Gd), were explored as contrast agent...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Pais A,Biton IE,Margalit R,Degani H

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical shift imaging benefits from signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and chemical shift dispersion increases at stronger main field such as 7 Tesla, but the associated shorter radiofrequency (RF) wavelengths encountered require B1+ mitigation over both the spatial field of view (FOV) and a specified spectral bandwidth. Th...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Setsompop K,Alagappan V,Gagoski BA,Potthast A,Hebrank F,Fontius U,Schmitt F,Wald LL,Adalsteinsson E

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：:The resolution and homogeneity limitations of echo-planar imaging (EPI) are overcome by zoom imaging of an easily shimmed localized volume. Use of the stimulated echo enables single-shot localization. In vivo 0.5-mm resolution EPI images of selected regions of a cat brain at 4.7 T are presented. ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Turner R,von Kienlin M,Moonen CT,van Zijl PC

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop and validate closed form mathematical expressions that predict the optimal contrast agent concentration for the maximum T1-weighted spoiled gradient echo (SGRE) signal. THEORY AND METHODS:Gadolinium and iron-based contrast agents can have significant transverse relaxivity that leads to signal dropou...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Reeder SB,Smith MR,Hernando D

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-field (>or=3 T) cardiac MRI is challenged by inhomogeneities of both the static magnetic field (B(0)) and the transmit radiofrequency field (B(1)+). The inhomogeneous B fields not only demand improved shimming methods but also impede the correct determination of the zero-order terms, i.e., the local resonance fre...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Schär M,Vonken EJ,Stuber M

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:For diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging and under circumstances where patient movement can be modeled as rigid body motion, it is shown both theoretically and experimentally that translations and rotations produce phase errors which are zero- and first-order, respectively, in position. While a navigator echo...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Anderson AW,Gore JC

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We applied diffusion-sensitive echo planar (Instascan) imaging to study thermal changes caused by a Nd:YAG laser. Images of phantom materials and normal rabbit brain tissue in vivo, acquired in 150 ms, every 2s, clearly showed the dynamics of temperature-related signal intensity changes in the regions irradiated by th...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bleier AR,Jolesz FA,Cohen MS,Weisskoff RM,Dalcanton JJ,Higuchi N,Feinberg DA,Rosen BR,McKinstry RC,Hushek SG

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The resolution in conventional BOLD FMRI is considerably lower than can be achieved with other MRI methods, and is insufficient for many important applications. One major difficulty in robustly improving spatial resolution is the poor image quality in BOLD FMRI, which suffers from distortions, blurring, and signal dro...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Miller KL,Smith SM,Jezzard P,Pauly JM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A localized proton 2D double-quantum (DQ) spin-echo spectroscopy technique was implemented on 1.5 T clinical MRI scanners for the detection of gamma-aminobutyrate (GABA) in the brain. The 2D approach facilitates separation of peaks overlapping with GABA in 1D DQ-filtered (DQF) spectra. This technique was applied to fo...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wang ZJ,Bergqvist C,Hunter JV,Jin D,Wang DJ,Wehrli S,Zimmerman RA

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The correlation between glutamine metabolism and oncogene expression in cancers has led to a renewed interest in the role of glutamine in cancer cell survival. Hyperpolarized [5-(13) C]glutamine is evaluated as a potential biomarker for noninvasive metabolic measurements of drug response in prostate cancer cell...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Canapè C,Catanzaro G,Terreno E,Karlsson M,Lerche MH,Jensen PR

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Sensitivity encoding (SENSE) reconstruction of multiband echo planar imaging (EPI) may cause artifacts when simultaneously excited slices require different phase correction to remove the EPI-specific ghost shifted by half of the matrix size (N). We propose a simplified solution of this problem that combines SEN...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hennel F,Buehrer M,von Deuster C,Seuven A,Pruessmann KP

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the value of a blood-pool contrast media (NC100150, Nycomed Imaging (now Amersham Health) Oslo, Norway) for evaluation of venous thrombosis of the deep veins of the pelvis and lower extremities. Twelve patients were prospectively evaluated with conventional X-ray venography (...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Aschauer M,Deutschmann HA,Stollberger R,Hausegger KA,Obernosterer A,Schöllnast H,Ebner F

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid MR imaging using the stimulated echo acquisition mode (STEAM) technique yields single-shot images without any sensitivity to resonance offset effects. However, the absence of susceptibility-induced signal voids or geometric distortions is at the expense of a somewhat lower signal-to-noise ratio than EPI. As a co...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Block KT,Frahm J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantification of peak velocity is important in the assessment of stenotic flow jets in patients with congenital heart disease. Phase-contrast magnetic resonance underestimates peak velocities. Hence, clinically Doppler ultrasound is used as the reference standard for assessing stenoses. It is possible to accurately m...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Steeden JA,Jones A,Pandya B,Atkinson D,Taylor AM,Muthurangu V

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MR images acquired by using an arterial spin-labeling technique showed spatial and temporal variations of perfusion in the skeletal muscle of exercising humans. Perfusion measurements made during plantar flexion exercise in normal volunteers were consistent with those obtained by traditional techniques reported in the...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Frank LR,Wong EC,Haseler LJ,Buxton RB

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to compare prospective head motion correction and motion tracking abilities of two tracking systems: Active NMR field probes and a Moiré phase tracking camera system using an optical marker. METHODS:Both tracking systems were used simultaneously on human subjects. The prospective head...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Eschelbach M,Aghaeifar A,Bause J,Handwerker J,Anders J,Engel EM,Thielscher A,Scheffler K

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To quantify chemical exchange saturation transfer contrast in upper extremities of participants with lymphedema before and after standardized lymphatic mobilization therapy using correction procedures for B0 and B1 heterogeneity, and T1 relaxation. METHODS:Females with (n = 12) and without (n = 17) breast canc...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Crescenzi R,Donahue PMC,Mahany H,Lants SK,Donahue MJ

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To study the utility of fractional calculus in modeling gradient-recalled echo MRI signal decay in the normal human brain. METHODS:We solved analytically the extended time-fractional Bloch equations resulting in five model parameters, namely, the amplitude, relaxation rate, order of the time-fractional derivat...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Qin S,Liu F,Turner IW,Yu Q,Yang Q,Vegh V

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Oscillating gradient spin-echo (OGSE) diffusion MRI provides information about the microstructure of biological tissues by means of the frequency dependence of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC). ADC dependence on OGSE frequency has been explored in numerous rodent studies, but applications in the human b...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Arbabi A,Kai J,Khan AR,Baron CA

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:MRI can produce quantitative liver fat fraction (FF) maps noninvasively, which can help to improve diagnoses of fatty liver diseases. However, most sequences acquire several two-dimensional (2D) slices during one or more breath-holds, which may be difficult for patients with limited breath-holding capacity. A w...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Arboleda C,Aguirre-Reyes D,García MP,Tejos C,Muñoz L,Miquel JF,Irarrazaval P,Andia ME,Uribe S

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some of the important features of how pulsatile flow generates artifacts in three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging are analyzed and demonstrated. Time variations in the magnetic resonance signal during the heart cycle lead to more complex patterns of artifacts in 3D imaging than in 2D imaging. The appearance and...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Frank LR,Buxton RB,Kerber CW

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This work describes the construction and evaluation of a bilateral 32-channel receive array for breast imaging at 7T. METHODS:The receive array consisted of 32 receive coils, placed on two 3D-printed hemispherical formers. Each side of the receive array consisted of 16 receive loops, each loop having a corresp...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Del Bosque R,Cui J,Ogier S,Cheshkov S,Dimitrov IE,Malloy C,Wright SM,McDougall M

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed a device to compress small samples of articular cartilage while the samples were imaged in a 1.5 T imager. With the use of a piezoelectric piston, the device compressed 1-cm-diameter cylindrical samples of articular cartilage (200 microm) at a rate of 2 Hz. Simultaneously, we imaged the samples with a d...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hardy PA,Ridler AC,Chiarot CB,Plewes DB,Henkelman RM

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative 1H MRS to determine cerebral metabolite patterns and MRI to determine CSF flow were applied to 12 patients with ventricular dilation-Group A, cortical atrophy (N = 5); or Group B, hydrocephalus (N = 7)- and in 9 normal controls. While mean brain water (Group A = 80% +/- 6; Group B = 86% +/- 5; normal = 85...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bluml S,McComb JG,Ross BD

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, most functional imaging centers have relied on ultrafast imaging approaches such as echo-planar imaging (EPI) techniques for acquiring functional brain activation data. These methods require specialized hardware and are not yet installed widely on clinical MR imagers, thus limiting the application of function...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Constable RT

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel iterative k-space data-driven technique, namely parallel reconstruction using null operations (PRUNO), is presented for parallel imaging reconstruction. In PRUNO, both data calibration and image reconstruction are formulated into linear algebra problems based on a generalized system model. An optimal data cali...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zhang J,Liu C,Moseley ME

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parallel imaging reconstructions result in spatially varying noise amplification characterized by the g-factor, precluding conventional measurements of noise from the final image. A simple Monte Carlo based method is proposed for all linear image reconstruction algorithms, which allows measurement of signal-to-noise r...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Robson PM,Grant AK,Madhuranthakam AJ,Lattanzi R,Sodickson DK,McKenzie CA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Double wave vector diffusion weighting uses gradients along two different directions between excitation and acquisition. It has been shown theoretically that for restricted diffusion the signal amplitude in such an experiment can depend on the angle between the two gradient vectors. The highest amplitude is obtained w...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Koch MA,Finsterbusch J

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00