Super-resolution for upper abdominal MRI: Acquisition and post-processing protocol optimization using brain MRI control data and expert reader validation.

abstract：:A novel method based on selective detection of rapidly changing DeltaB(0) magnetic fields and suppression of slowly changing DeltaB(0) fields is presented. The ultimate goal of this work is to present a method that may allow detection of transient and subtle changes in B(0) in cortical tissue associated with electrica...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bodurka J,Bandettini PA

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：PURPOSE:The primary purpose of this study is to propose a method for the simultaneous quantitative three-dimensional (3D) mapping of conductivity and susceptibility using double-echo ultrashort echo time (UTE) imaging. The secondary purpose is to investigate the changes of these properties over time during in vitro hem...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Gho SM,Shin J,Kim MO,Kim DH

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：:Diffusion tensor imaging has been used in a number of spinal cord studies, but severe distortions caused by susceptibility induced field inhomogeneities limit its applicability to investigate small volumes within acceptable acquisition times. A way to evaluate image distortions is to map the point spread function of t...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lundell H,Barthelemy D,Biering-Sørensen F,Cohen-Adad J,Nielsen JB,Dyrby TB

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Golden-angle radial sparse parallel (GRASP) MRI reconstruction requires gridding and regridding to transform data between radial and Cartesian k-space. These operations are repeatedly performed in each iteration, which makes the reconstruction computationally demanding. This work aimed to accelerate GRASP recon...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Benkert T,Tian Y,Huang C,DiBella EVR,Chandarana H,Feng L

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional values of fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (D(av)) of in vivo and excised rat spinal cords were measured using an iscosahedral encoding scheme that is based on 21 uniformly distributed and alternating gradient directions with an echo planar imaging (EPI) readout. Based on the water phantom stud...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Madi S,Hasan KM,Narayana PA

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:If magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is to become a useful tool in clinical medicine, it will be necessary to find reliable methods for analyzing and classifying MRS data. Automated methods are desirable because they can remove user bias and can deal with large amounts of data, allowing the use of all the availabl...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Tate AR,Watson D,Eglen S,Arvanitis TN,Thomas EL,Bell JD

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Any number of coils can in principle be used simultaneously and independently in magnetic resonance imaging if the mutual inductances are sufficiently small. Surface coils and head or body coils have equal sensitivity at some crossover depth of the order of 6 to 10 cm. Using a 7.5-cm-diameter surface coil that was int...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hyde JS,Froncisz W,Jesmanowicz A,Kneeland JB

更新日期：1988-02-01 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：:A modified Prony method (MPM) was applied to analyze the main signals present in spatially resolved 31P NMR spectra of MCF7 breast tumors implanted in nude mice. First, the method was tested on synthetic data to establish its limits of reliability. Its performance with respect to peak identification and quantification...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Viti V,Ragona R,Guidoni L,Barone P,Furman E,Degani H

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial pH has been shown in animal models to be a sensitive indicator of ischemia. In vivo measurement in humans using 31p magnetic resonance spectroscopy is complicated by the overlap of blood 2,3-diphosphoglycerate peaks with the P(i) peak used for pH measurement. A "saturation transfer" method combined with spa...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Blamire AM,Rajagopalan B,Radda GK

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The behavior of the lithium (Li) ion in normal human erythrocytes has been studied by 7Li NMR. The uptake of Li into the cells was followed as a function of solution conditions, temperature, hematocrit, and blood age using dysprosium tripolyphosphate shift reagent. Under our conditions the uptake of Li increases with ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Gullapalli RP,Hawk RM,Komoroski RA

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:A purely experimental method for MRI-based transfer function (TF) determination is presented. A TF characterizes the potential for radiofrequency heating of a linear implant by relating the incident tangential electric field to a scattered electric field at its tip. We utilize the previously introduced transfer...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Tokaya JP,Raaijmakers AJE,Luijten PR,Sbrizzi A,van den Berg CAT

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wavelet packet analysis is a mathematical transformation that can be used to post-process images, for example, to remove image noise ("denoising"). At a very low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR <5), standard magnitude magnetic resonance images have skewed Rician noise statistics that degrade denoising performance. Since th...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wood JC,Johnson KM

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for calculating quantitative three-dimensional susceptibility maps from field measurements acquired using gradient echo imaging at high field is presented. This method is based on division of the three-dimensional Fourier transforms of high-pass-filtered field maps by a simple function that is the Fourier tra...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wharton S,Schäfer A,Bowtell R

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:A novel tagging method is introduced that increases the spatial resolution of estimates of myocardial radial thickening. The separation of adjacent parallel tag planes is customized to match the expected motion of specific regions of the heart wall. In regions in which the tags increase their separation over systole (...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： McVeigh ER,Bolster BD Jr

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present their 1-year experience with the use of 3DFT, time-of-flight MR angiography for the evaluation of vascular diseases of the head and neck. Their experience with over 150 patients indicates that this examination may be performed in conjunction with standard spin-echo imaging with only a minimal incre...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Masaryk TJ,Laub GA,Modic MT,Ross JS,Haacke EM

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffusion-weighted imaging suffers from motion artifacts and relatively low signal quality due to the long echo times required to permit the diffusion encoding. We investigated the inclusion of a noncylindrical fourth gradient coil, dedicated entirely to diffusion encoding, into the imaging system. Standard three-axis...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Feldman RE,Scholl TJ,Alford JK,Handler WB,Harris CT,Chronik BA

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes an EPR spectrometer specifically designed and constructed for EPR spectroscopy in humans. The spectrometer is based on a permanent magnet, suitable for measurements at 1200 MHz. The magnet has a full 50 cm gap between the poles, which facilitates accurate and comfortable placement of the subject...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Salikhov I,Walczak T,Lesniewski P,Khan N,Iwasaki A,Comi R,Buckey J,Swartz HM

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Keyhole acquisition techniques have been used to reduce image acquisition times primarily in contrast agent studies and via simulation in interventional MRI procedures. More recent simulations have suggested that improved definition of an interventional device [e.g., biopsy needles, radio frequency (RF) electrodes] co...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hwang KP,Lim J,Wendt M,Merkle E,Lewin JS,Duerk JL

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work helps elucidate how background noise introduces statistical artifacts in the distribution of the sorted eigenvalues and eigenvectors in diffusion tensor MRI (DT-MRI) data. Although it was known that sorting eigenvalues (principal diffusivities) by magnitude introduces a bias in their sample mean within a hom...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Basser PJ,Pajevic S

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop and validate a regularization approach of optimizing B1 insensitivity of the quantitative magnetization transfer (qMT) pool-size ratio (F). METHODS:An expression describing the impact of B1 inaccuracies on qMT fitting parameters was derived using a sensitivity analysis. To simultaneously optimize fo...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Boudreau M,Pike GB

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We aimed to develop a novel free-breathing cardiac diffusion tensor MRI (DT-MRI) approach, M2-MT-MOCO, capable of whole left ventricular coverage that leverages second-order motion compensation (M2) diffusion encoding and multitasking (MT) framework to efficiently correct for respiratory motion (MOCO). METHODS...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Nguyen CT,Christodoulou AG,Coll-Font J,Ma S,Xie Y,Reese TG,Mekkaoui C,Lewis GD,Bi X,Sosnovik DE,Li D

更新日期：2020-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Imaging gradients result in the generation of concomitant fields, or Maxwell fields, which are of increasing importance at higher gradient amplitudes. These time-varying fields cause additional phase accumulation, which must be compensated for to avoid image artifacts. In the case of gradient systems employing ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Weavers PT,Tao S,Trzasko JD,Frigo LM,Shu Y,Frick MA,Lee SK,Foo TK,Bernstein MA

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a pulsed CEST magnetization-transfer method for rapidly acquiring relayed nuclear Overhauser enhancement (rNOE)-weighted images with magnetic transfer contrast (MTC) suppression at clinical field strength (3 T). METHODS:Using a pulsed CEST magnetization-transfer method with low saturation powers (B1...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Huang J,Han X,Chen L,Xu X,Xu J,Chan KWY

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-tuned single coil probe for high field metabolic NMR studies has been designed and tested. The resonant coil is a single-turn of copper foil wound on a quartz cylinder. It is fed by a short length of parallel strip line made of the same material; the feeder is also used as a tuning capacitance. Electrical par...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Najim E,Grivet JP

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To remove nuisance signals (e.g., water and lipid signals) for (1) H MRSI data collected from the brain with limited and/or sparse (k, t)-space coverage. METHODS:A union-of-subspace model is proposed for removing nuisance signals. The model exploits the partial separability of both the nuisance signals and the...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ma C,Lam F,Johnson CL,Liang ZP

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00