A multicontrast imaging method using steady-state free precession with alternating RF flip angles.

abstract：:Optimization of experimental settings of dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI), like the contrast administration protocol, is of great importance for reliable quantification of the microcirculatory properties, such as the volume transfer-constant K(trans). Using system identification theory an...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Aerts HJ,van Riel NA,Backes WH

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracranial vascular territories are usually visualized with the use of angiographic techniques. However, because it is difficult to visualize the distal vascular bed with any angiographic technique, it is also difficult to infer the parenchymal borders of vascular territories. Arterial spin labeling (ASL) MRI provid...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Günther M

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:For the application of compressive sensing to parallel MRI, Poisson disk sampling (PDS) has been shown to generate superior results compared with random sampling methods. However, due to its limited flexibility to incorporate additional constraints, PDS is not readily extendible to dynamic applications. Here, w...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ahmad R,Xue H,Giri S,Ding Y,Craft J,Simonetti OP

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetoferritin nanoparticles have been developed as high-relaxivity, functional contrast agents for MRI. Several previous techniques have relied on unloading native ferritin and re-incorporation of iron into the core, often resulting in a polydisperse sample. Here, a simplified technique is developed using commercial...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Jordan VC,Caplan MR,Bennett KM

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) were labeled with Ferucarbotran by simple incubation and cultured for up to 14 d. Iron content was determined by spectrometry and the intracellular localization of the contrast agent uptake was studied by electron and confocal microscopy. At various time points after labeling, rang...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Henning TD,Wendland MF,Golovko D,Sutton EJ,Sennino B,Malek F,Bauer JS,McDonald DM,Daldrup-Link H

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Longitudinal and transverse relaxation rates for the 11B resonances in sodium borocaptate (BSH) at varying concentrations were measured in undiluted horse serum in a 4.7 Tesla field. The results could be fit by a model that assumes fast exchange of the BSH molecule between a free and a bound state, using values of 0.7...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bendel P,Frantz A,Zilberstein J,Kabalka GW,Salomon Y

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a method for measuring the electrocardiogram (ECG) continuously during MR examinations. In contrast to ECG acquisition by wires, our new method is to amplify and convert the ECG into an optical signal directly above the patient's heart. The optical signal is transmitted out of the magnet bore by opti...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Felblinger J,Lehmann C,Boesch C

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In proton magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) metallic substances lead to magnetic field distortions that often result in signal voids in the adjacent anatomic structures. Thus, metallic objects and superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO)-labeled cells appear as hypointense artifacts that obscure the underlying anatomy. The ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Stuber M,Gilson WD,Schär M,Kedziorek DA,Hofmann LV,Shah S,Vonken EJ,Bulte JW,Kraitchman DL

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two single-shot volume imaging techniques are described. The first, single-echo echo-volume imaging, is essentially the echo-volume imaging (EVI) sequence suggested by Mansfield (J. Phys. C. 10, L55 (1977)). The second is a multi-spin-echo approach in which one plane of k-space is collected during each spin echo. In b...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Song AW,Wong EC,Hyde JS

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell death by apoptosis is critical in myocardial diseases, and noninvasive detection of early, reversible apoptosis might be useful clinically. Exogenous Annexin-V (ANX) protein binds membrane phosphatidylserine, which is externalized in early apoptosis. A molecular MRI probe was constructed with superparamagnetic ir...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Dash R,Chung J,Chan T,Yamada M,Barral J,Nishimura D,Yang PC,Simpson PC

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (31P NMR) was used to assess the temporal changes of high-energy phosphate metabolites in the region of acute myocardial ischemia of open-chest cats. Eight anesthetized cats were studied following ligation of the left anterior descending coronary artery. Creatine p...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Stein PD,Goldstein S,Sabbah HN,Liu ZQ,Helpern JA,Ewing JR,Lakier JB,Chopp M,LaPenna WF,Welch KM

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitation by conventional B1 pulses in surface coil chemical-shift imaging experiments yields resonance intensities that vary greatly with position. B1-compensated semi-selective pulses overcome much of this problem. These pulses are employed for excitation and refocusing in 1H NMR spectroscopic localization in the i...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Balschi JA,Hetherington HP,Pohost GM

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate white matter (WM) development, voxelwise analyses of diffusion tensor MRI (DTMRI) data, acquired from 12 very preterm and 11 preterm infants with gestational ages (GA) ranging from 25 to 29 and 29 to 32 weeks, respectively, and 10 newborn normal term infants were performed. T(2) relaxation measures were...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Rose SE,Hatzigeorgiou X,Strudwick MW,Durbridge G,Davies PS,Colditz PB

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel multiple quantum filtering method is proposed that uses a doubly selective pulse termed Delays Alternating with Nutations for Tailored Excitation (DANTE) for multiple quantum preparation. This method selectively prepares GABA-3 and GABA-4 into a multiple quantum state and suppresses all other resonances at 3.0...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Shen J,Rothman DL,Brown P

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The use of electromagnetic (EM) modeling is critical for specific absorption rate (SAR) characterization in parallel transmission MRI. Radiofrequency arrays that include decoupling networks can be difficult to characterize accurately in simulation. A practical method of simplifying modeling is to exclude the de...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Beqiri A,Hand JW,Hajnal JV,Malik SJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:An increasing number of studies show that magnetic susceptibility in white matter fibers is anisotropic and may be described by a tensor. However, the limited head rotation possible for in vivo human studies leads to an ill-conditioned inverse problem in susceptibility tensor imaging (STI). Here we suggest the ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Li X,van Zijl PC

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to assess whether an alternative method, that is based on volumetric surface detection (VoSD) without tracing and is totally free of geometric assumptions, can improve the reproducibility of right ventricular (RV) volume quantification from cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) images, in comparison with a ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Catalano O,Corsi C,Antonaci S,Moro G,Mussida M,Frascaroli M,Baldi M,Caiani E,Lamberti C,Cobelli F

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate an optimized multislice acquisition technique for oxygen-enhanced MRI of the lung using slice-selective inversion and refocusing pulses in combination with parallel imaging. An inversion recovery HASTE sequence was implemented with respiratory triggering to perform imaging in ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Dietrich O,Losert C,Attenberger U,Fasol U,Peller M,Nikolaou K,Reiser MF,Schoenberg SO

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Respiratory organ motion is still the major challenge of various image-guided treatments in the abdomen. Dynamic organ motion tracking, necessary for the treatment control, can be performed with volumetric time-resolved MRI that sequentially acquires one image and one navigator slice. Here, a novel imaging meth...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Celicanin Z,Bieri O,Preiswerk F,Cattin P,Scheffler K,Santini F

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to directly detect neuronal magnetic fields by MRI would help investigators achieve the "holy grail" of neuroimaging, namely both high spatial and temporal resolution. Both positive and negative findings have been reported in the literature, with no clear consensus as to the feasibility of direct detection...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Parkes LM,de Lange FP,Fries P,Toni I,Norris DG

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Subendocardial dark-rim artifacts (DRAs) remain a major concern in first-pass perfusion (FPP) myocardial MRI and may lower the diagnostic accuracy for detection of ischemia. A major source of DRAs is the "Gibbs ringing" effect. We propose an optimized radial acquisition strategy aimed at eliminating ringing-ind...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sharif B,Dharmakumar R,LaBounty T,Arsanjani R,Shufelt C,Thomson L,Merz CN,Berman DS,Li D

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Dynamic phosphorus MR spectroscopic imaging (31 P-MRSI) experiments require temporal resolution on the order of seconds to concurrently assess different muscle groups. A highly accelerated pulse sequence combining flyback echo-planar spectroscopic imaging (EPSI) and compressed sensing was developed and tested i...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Santos-Díaz A,Harasym D,Noseworthy MD

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article introduces a novel method named "Parallel Imaging and Noquist in Tandem" (PINOT) for accelerated image acquisition of cine cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. This method combines two prior information formalisms, the SPACE-RIP implementation of parallel imaging and the Noquist method for reduced-data ima...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hamilton LH,Fabregat JA,Moratal D,Ramamurthy S,Lerakis S,Parks WJ,Sallee D 3rd,Brummer ME

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Proof-of-concept study of mapping renal blood flow vector field according to the inverse solution to a mass transport model of time resolved tracer-labeled MRI data. THEORY AND METHODS:To determine tissue perfusion according to the underlying physics of spatiotemporal tracer concentration variation, the mass t...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zhou L,Zhang Q,Spincemaille P,Nguyen TD,Morgan J,Dai W,Li Y,Gupta A,Prince MR,Wang Y

更新日期：2021-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the feasibility of using dissolved hyperpolarized xenon-129 (129 Xe) MRI to study renal physiology in humans at 3 T. METHODS:Using a flexible transceiver RF coil, dynamic and spatially resolved 129 Xe spectroscopy was performed in the abdomen after inhalation of hyperpolarized 129 Xe gas with 3 healt...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Chacon-Caldera J,Maunder A,Rao M,Norquay G,Rodgers OI,Clemence M,Puddu C,Schad LR,Wild JM

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To present the results of the first human spinal cord in vivo MRI scans at 9.4T. METHODS:A human brain coil was used to image the human spinal cord at 9.4T. All anatomical images were acquired with a T2 *-weighted gradient-echo sequence. A comparison of the influence of four different B0 shimming routines on t...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Geldschläger O,Bosch D,Avdievich NI,Henning A

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calculations and experiments that provide support for our previously stated theorem are presented: If two coils simultaneously receiving magnetic resonance signals from the same anatomic region exhibit zero mutual inductance, there can be no correlation of the noise. It is shown that correlation does not exist even in...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

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

更新日期：1991-07-01 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：PURPOSE:To develop a deep learning-based Bayesian estimation for MRI reconstruction. METHODS:We modeled the MRI reconstruction problem with Bayes's theorem, following the recently proposed PixelCNN++ method. The image reconstruction from incomplete k-space measurement was obtained by maximizing the posterior possibili...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Luo G,Zhao N,Jiang W,Hui ES,Cao P

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00