Cardiac gating using scattering of an 8-channel parallel transmit coil at 7T.

abstract：PURPOSE:A new approach to design parallel transmit (pTx) head arrays is proposed that integrates transmit radiofrequency pulse designs with electromagnetic modeling of array coil elements. THEORY AND METHODS:An approach to design pTx head arrays is proposed that finds optimal groupings of a large number of coils into ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Cao Z,Yan X,Gore JC,Grissom WA

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The T(1) of tissue has a strong dependence on the measurement magnetic field strength. T(1) -dispersion could be a useful contrast parameter, but is unavailable to clinical MR systems which operate at fixed magnetic field strength. The purpose of this work was to implement a removable insert magnet coil for fie...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Pine KJ,Goldie F,Lurie DJ

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flow-sensitive dephasing (FSD) magnetization preparation has been developed for black-blood vessel wall MRI and noncontrast MR angiography. The first-order gradient moment, m(1) , is a measure of the flow-sensitization imparted by an FSD preparative module. Determination of the optimal m(1) for each individual is high...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Fan Z,Zhou X,Bi X,Dharmakumar R,Carr JC,Li D

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Quantitative mapping of the native T1 of the heart using the modified look-locker inversion recovery (MOLLI) technique provides high quality diagnostic information without requiring contrast agents. Previous work has considered the effects of T2 relaxation on MOLLI T1 measurements, finding that the T1 measured ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Robson MD,Piechnik SK,Tunnicliffe EM,Neubauer S

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To present a new method that can simultaneously and efficiently measure T1 and B1 (+) maps using reference region variable flip angle (RR-VFA) imaging. METHODS:Assuming T1 relaxation time in a reference region such as fat is well characterized, and the reference region sufficiently covers smoothly varying B1 (...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sung K,Saranathan M,Daniel BL,Hargreaves BA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a flexible fast spin echo (FSE) triple-echo Dixon (FTED) technique. METHODS:An FSE pulse sequence was modified by replacing each readout gradient with three fast-switching bipolar readout gradients with minimal interecho dead time. The corresponding three echoes were used to generate three raw image...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Son JB,Hwang KP,Madewell JE,Bayram E,Hazle JD,Low RN,Ma J

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modular, user-friendly computer simulation of NMR imaging was created for the DEC VAX computer. This simulation is novel in that complex imaging phenomena, such as chemical shifts and flow, may be easily studied. Other features include spin warp and backprojection imaging, movie generation, and simulation of image c...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Summers RM,Axel L,Israel S

更新日期：1986-06-01 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：PURPOSE:To develop a method to correct for geometric distortions in non-Cartesian echo planar imaging using data acquired in a fast prescan. METHODS:Echo planar images were obtained using a non-Cartesian density weighted k-space trajectory. In contrast to linear Cartesian acquisition, distortions arising in non-Cartes...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zeller M,Müller A,Hahn D,Köstler H

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：:In vivo, cardiac-gated, black-blood, and ex vivo magnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) images of the aortic root, and histopathology data were obtained from 12 transgenic and wild-type (WT) mice. MRM was performed using a black-blood imaging spin-echo sequence with upstream and downstream in-flow saturation pulses to ob...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Itskovich VV,Choudhury RP,Aguinaldo JG,Fallon JT,Omerhodzic S,Fisher EA,Fayad ZA

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in modern magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) pulse sequences have enabled clinically practical cortical bone imaging. Human cortical bone is known to contain a distribution of T(1) and T(2) components attributed to bound and pore water, although clinical imaging approaches have yet to discriminate bound from po...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Horch RA,Gochberg DF,Nyman JS,Does MD

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：:Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H MRS) was used to determine brain temperature in healthy volunteers. Partially water-suppressed (1)H MRS data sets were acquired at 3T from four different gray matter (GM)/white matter (WM) volumes. Brain temperatures were determined from the chemical-shift difference betwee...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Childs C,Hiltunen Y,Vidyasagar R,Kauppinen RA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is presented that employs the inherent spectral selectivity of the Steady-State Free Precession (SSFP) pulse sequence to provide a spectral band of suppression. At TE = TR/2, SSFP partitions the magnetization into two phase-opposed spectral components. Z-storing one of these components simultaneously further ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Derbyshire JA,Herzka DA,McVeigh ER

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new approach to spin-echo imaging is presented in which the 180 degrees RF pulse refocuses two or more spin-echoes at different positions in the readout period. When simultaneous echo refocusing (SER) is implemented using multiple 180 degrees pulses, an undesirable mixing of stimulated echoes and primary echoes from...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Günther M,Feinberg DA

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relaxation of (1)H nuclei due to their interaction with quadrupolar (14)N nuclei in gel structures is measured using fast field-cycling NMR. This phenomenon called quadrupolar dips has been reported in different (1)H-(14)N bond-rich species. In this study, we have studied quadrupolar dips in fibrin, an insoluble p...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Broche LM,Ismail SR,Booth NA,Lurie DJ

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A current limitation of many myocardial tag acquisitions employing SPAMM encoding is the relatively rapid loss of tag contrast over the cardiac cycle. Acquisition schemes that apply line tags produce prolonged tag contrast compared with directly excited grid tags. However, a grid-tag series can be generated by combini...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Doyle M,Walsh EG,Foster RE,Pohost GM

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional T2-selective proton imaging of human head has been performed at 10 MHz employing Carr-Purcell-Gill-Meiboom pulse trains with echo separation of 6 and 12 msec. Using the information of 36 spin echoes and applying a recovery time of 2 sec the magnetization decay has been traced. The multi-exponential T2 ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Gersonde K,Felsberg L,Tolxdorff T,Ratzel D,Ströbel B

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Choline-containing compounds (CCCs) are elevated in breast cancer, and detected in vivo by the (1)H MRS total choline (tCho) resonance (3.25 ppm) and the (31)P MRS phosphomonoester (PME) resonance (3.8 ppm). Both the tCho and PME resonances decrease early after initiation of successful therapy. The single major compon...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Morse DL,Raghunand N,Sadarangani P,Murthi S,Job C,Day S,Howison C,Gillies RJ

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homogeneous soft tissue, as regards its magnetic relaxation properties, is well-modeled by solutions of cross-linked protein (see Koenig and Brown, Prog. NMR Spectr. 22, 487 (1991)). Interactions at the solute-solvent interface alter the hydrodynamics of solvent water, and also couple the solute and solvent proton Zee...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Koenig SH,Brown RD 3rd

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Dipole antennas in ultrahigh field MRI have demonstrated advantages over more conventional designs. In this study, the fractionated dipole antenna is presented: a dipole where the legs are split into segments that are interconnected by capacitors or inductors. METHODS:A parameter study has been performed on di...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Raaijmakers AJ,Italiaander M,Voogt IJ,Luijten PR,Hoogduin JM,Klomp DW,van den Berg CA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the pulsed arterial spin labeling (ASL) techniques EPISTAR, PICORE, and FAIR, subtraction of two images in which inflowing blood is first tagged and then not tagged yields a qualitative map of perfusion. An important reason this map is not quantitative is that there is a spatially varying delay in the transit of bl...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wong EC,Buxton RB,Frank LR

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To propose and evaluate a deep learning model for rapid and accurate calculation of myocardial T1 /T2 values based on a previously proposed Bloch equation simulation with slice profile correction (BLESSPC) method. METHODS:Deep learning Bloch equation simulations (DeepBLESS) models are proposed for rapid and ac...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Shao J,Ghodrati V,Nguyen KL,Hu P

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time-resolved three-dimensional phase-contrast MRI is an important tool for physiological as well as clinical studies of blood flow in the heart and vessels. The application of the technique is, however, limited by the long scan times required. In this work, we investigate the feasibility of using spiral readouts to r...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sigfridsson A,Petersson S,Carlhäll CJ,Ebbers T

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The ultimate intrinsic signal-to-noise ratio (UISNR) is normally calculated using electrodynamic simulations with a complete basis of modes. Here, we provide an exact solution for the UISNR at the center of a dielectric sphere and assess how accurately this solution approximates UISNR away from the center. MET...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lee HH,Sodickson DK,Lattanzi R

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two NMR experiments are described that use ac field gradients to measure flow velocities. Both experiments perform no spacial localization; instead, fluid velocity is converted to a resonance frequency shift. Thus, by Fourier transformation of a single FID or echo train the distribution of velocities is available. The...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Walton JH,Conradi MS

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the ongoing quest for faster imaging and higher spatial resolution, several methods have been developed to speed up data acquisition by incorporating prior information about the object being imaged. This study shows that many of these methods can be integrated into a single common equation. The unified framework pr...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Tsao J,Behnia B,Webb AG

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In radiotherapy, target tissues are defined best on MR images due to their superior soft tissue contrast. Computed tomography imaging is geometrically accurate and it is needed for dose calculation and generation of reference images for treatment localization. Co-registration errors between MR and computed tomography ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kapanen M,Collan J,Beule A,Seppälä T,Saarilahti K,Tenhunen M

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:MR safety at 7 Tesla relies on accurate numerical simulations of transmit electromagnetic fields to fully assess local specific absorption rate (SAR) safety. Numerical simulations for SAR safety are currently performed using models of healthy patients. These simulations might not be useful for estimating SAR in...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Restivo MC,van den Berg CA,van Lier AL,Polders DL,Raaijmakers AJ,Luijten PR,Hoogduin H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00