Rapid whole-brain gray matter imaging using single-slab three-dimensional dual-echo fast spin echo: A feasibility study.

abstract：:The effect on lung ventilation of bronchoconstriction induced by serotonin (intravenous injection of 50 microg/kg of serotonin) was imaged using a hyperpolarized (3)He MR ventilation protocol in spontaneously breathing rats. Lung function maps assessing airflow obstruction, a key feature in clinical pneumology, were d...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Mosbah K,Stupar V,Berthezène Y,Beckmann N,Crémillieux Y

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncertainty regarding the intracellular/extracellular distribution of inorganic phosphate (P(i)) in tumors has raised concerns that pH calculated from the tumor P(i) chemical shift may not accurately represent the intracellular pH (pHin). This issue was addressed in subcutaneously transplanted murine radiation induced...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Soto GE,Zhu Z,Evelhoch JL,Ackerman JJ

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accurate assessment of pulmonary perfusion is especially important in the evaluation of patients with suspected pulmonary embolism, a common and potentially lethal disorder that can be treated by aggressive anticoagulation. In this study, we demonstrate for the first time the use of MR to image pulmonary perfusion...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hatabu H,Gaa J,Kim D,Li W,Prasad PV,Edelman RR

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this work was to implement autocalibrating GRAPPA-based parallel imaging (PI) for in vivo high-resolution (HR) MRI of cartilage and trabecular bone micro-architecture at 7T and to evaluate its performance based on comparison of MR-derived morphology metrics between accelerated and conventional images an...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Banerjee S,Krug R,Carballido-Gamio J,Kelley DA,Xu D,Vigneron DB,Majumdar S

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a wideband cardiac perfusion pulse sequence and test whether it is capable of suppressing image artifacts in patients with a cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED), while not exceeding the specific absorption rate (SAR) limit (2.0 W/kg). METHODS:A wideband perfusion pulse sequence was develope...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hong K,Collins JD,Knight BP,Carr JC,Lee DC,Kim D

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Magnetization transfer ratio (MTR) histograms are used widely for the assessment of diffuse pathological changes in the brain. For broad clinical application, MTR scans should not only be fast, but confounding factors should also be minimized for high reproducibility. To this end, a 1-minute whole-brain spiral ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Afshari R,Santini F,Heule R,Meyer CH,Pfeuffer J,Bieri O

更新日期：2020-12-08 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：:Parallel magnetic resonance imaging (pMRI) using multichannel receiver coils has emerged as an effective tool to reduce imaging time in various applications. However, the issue of accurate estimation of coil sensitivities has not been fully addressed, which limits the level of speed enhancement achievable with the tec...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ying L,Sheng J

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel linear parameterization for the variable flip angle method for longitudinal relaxation time T(1) quantification from spoiled steady state MRI is derived from the half angle tangent transform, τ, of the flip angle. Plotting the signal S at coordinates x=Sτ and y=S/τ, respectively, establishes a line that render...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Helms G,Dathe H,Weiskopf N,Dechent P

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging has achieved clinical importance and has become the primary tool in the investigation of head, spinal cord, pelvis, cancellous bone, pericardium (with gating), gallbladder, lymph node masses, and very soon, in the evaluation of joints. In many areas, particularly with respiratory and ECG gat...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Margulis AR,Fisher MR

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this work was to develop and evaluate a numerically optimized inversion pulse to be used with a homonuclear editing sequence to measure human cerebral GABA in vivo at 4.1 T in the occipital lobe. The optimized pulse was constructed using pallindromic symmetry with 30 pulses and 29 delays. The optimized pul...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hetherington HP,Newcomer BR,Pan JW

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) MRI is now increasingly used for measuring perfusion in many different applications. The quantification of DSC data requires the measurement of the arterial input function (AIF) and the deconvolution of the tissue concentration time curve. One of the most accepted deconvolution me...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Calamante F,Gadian DG,Connelly A

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Image selected in vivo spectroscopy (ISIS) is a volume selection method often used for in vivo (31)P MRS, since it is suitable for measurements of substances with short T(2). However, ISIS can suffer from significant signal contributions caused by T(1) smearing from regions outside the VOI. A computer model was develo...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ljungberg M,Starck G,Vikhoff-Baaz B,Alpsten M,Ekholm S,Forssell-Aronsson E

更新日期：2000-10-01 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:To assess the risk of radiofrequency (RF)-induced heating in patients with MR-conditional pacemaker (PM) systems, in the presence of another lead abandoned from a previous implant. METHODS:Four commercial pacemaker leads were placed beside a MR-conditional PM system, inside a human trunk simulator. The phantom...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Mattei E,Gentili G,Censi F,Triventi M,Calcagnini G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manipulation of the data describing two-dimensional magnetic resonance (MR) images can be used to zoom an image, decrease image noise and artifacts by modeling, or emphasize object edges in the field of view. In this paper, a two-dimensional band-selectable digital filtering (2D-BSDF) technique is detailed. This can b...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Mitchell DK,Nichols ST,Smith MR,Scott K

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-echo two-excitation pulse sequence encoding fat and water signals for a phase-sensitive three-point Dixon-type analysis (DE-3PD) was developed and implemented on a 1.5 T MR imager. Data processing was performed using a previously developed two-dimensional (2D) region-growing algorithm, adapted to use double-e...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Szumowski J,Coshow W,Li F,Coombs B,Quinn SF

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To explore the temperature-induced signal change in two-dimensional multi-spectral imaging (2DMSI) for fast thermometry near metallic hardware to enable MR-guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) in patients with implanted metallic hardware. METHOD:2DMSI was optimized for temperature sensitivity and applied...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Weber H,Ghanouni P,Pascal-Tenorio A,Pauly KB,Hargreaves BA

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Going to ultrahigh field MRI (e.g., 7 Tesla [T]), the nonuniformity of the B1+ field and the increased radiofrequency (RF) power deposition become challenging. While surface coils improve the power efficiency in B1+, its field remains nonuniform. In this work, an RF pulse was designed that uses the slab selecti...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： van Kalleveen IM,Boer VO,Luijten PR,Klomp DW

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A birdcage coil possesses various intrinsic resonant modes. One of the modes produces sinusoidal current distribution around the rung elements of the birdcage and generates a highly uniform B(1) field in the transverse plane. Another mode is the end-ring resonant mode, in which there are no currents in the rungs of th...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Fujita H,Braum WO,Morich MA

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolite signals with short T(1) or T(2) are difficult to localize with full sensitivity. This limitation was overcome with the development and implementation of a single-shot, complete three-dimensional "non-echo" localization method with reduced sensitivity to spatial B(1) variation, which is suitable for measurin...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Choi IY,Tkác I,Gruetter R

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a high-speed imaging technique based on stimulated echoes single-shot STEAM MRI is insensitive to chemical shift artifacts and magnetic susceptibility differences. The achievable signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is limited by the fact that high flip angles of the read-out excitation pulses cause a steep decay of the sti...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Finsterbusch J,Frahm J

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo 1H MRS can be used to detect and quantify the lactate resonance at 1.3 ppm provided that overlapping lipid resonances are eliminated. A homonuclear spectral editing method was developed to acquire uncontaminated 1H spectra of lactate with adiabatic pulses. An advantage of the adiabatic pulse sequence is the ab...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Schupp DG,Merkle H,Ellermann JM,Ke Y,Garwood M

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperpolarized gases ((129)Xe and (3)He) are being used increasingly in both MRI and NMR spectroscopy studies. However, it has been shown that carrier agents are required to preserve the long relaxation times of gases in biological fluids. Optimized gas transport can be achieved through controlled T(1) and T(2) measur...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Oregioni A,Parizel N,de Sousa PL,Grucker D

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Spatio-temporal encoding (SPEN) experiments can deliver single-scan MR images without folding complications and with robustness to chemical shift and susceptibility artifacts. Further resolution improvements are shown to arise by relying on multiple receivers, to interpolate the sampled data along the low-bandw...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Liberman G,Solomon E,Lustig M,Frydman L

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct measurement of neural currents by means of MRI can potentially open a high temporal resolution (10-100 ms) window applicable for monitoring dynamics of neuronal activity without loss of the high spatial resolution afforded by MRI. Previously, we have shown that the alternating balanced steady state imaging affo...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Buračas GT,Jung Y,Lee J,Buxton RB,Wong EC,Liu TT

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To present a double diffusion encoding MRI sequence on a clinical scanner to analyze micro-structure and micro-vasculature of tumors. METHODS:The sequence was tested on phantoms, asparaguses, and 2 tumors allografts in a rodent. Results were analyzed using an adapted VERDICT model to estimate microstructural p...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Duchêne G,Abarca-Quinones J,Leclercq I,Duprez T,Peeters F

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new ultrafast MR imaging method is proposed and tested, which enables whole-brain fMRI with a true temporal resolution of 1 sec. The method combines a 3D PRESTO pulse sequence with the concept of sensitivity-encoding with multiple receiver coils (SENSE). The so-called PRESTO-SENSE technique is demonstrated on a set ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Golay X,Pruessmann KP,Weiger M,Crelier GR,Folkers PJ,Kollias SS,Boesiger P

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantification of cerebral blood flow using QUIPSSII pulsed arterial spin labeling requires that the QUIPSS saturation delay TI1 is shorter than the natural temporal bolus width. Yet the duration of the bolus of tagged spins entering the region of interest varies during vasoactive stimuli such as gaseous challenges or...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Villien M,Chipon E,Troprès I,Bouvier J,Cantin S,Chechin D,Le Bas JF,Krainik A,Warnking JM

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) plays a central role in regulating vascular tone, blood flow, and microvascular permeability. Endothelial dysfunction, including eNOS dysfunction, is an early biomarker of vascular disease. This study aimed to show that myocardial T1 mapping during nitric oxide synthase ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Cui SX,Epstein FH

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00