Characterization of pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling: Simulations and experimental validation.

abstract：:Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) images obtained during the administration of supplemental oxygen demonstrate a hyperintense signal within the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that is likely caused by T1 changes induced by paramagnetic molecular oxygen. Previous studies demonstrated a linear relationship between t...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zaharchuk G,Martin AJ,Rosenthal G,Manley GT,Dillon WP

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified high-speed stimulated-echo acquisition mode (STEAM) diffusion sequence (90 degrees-TE/2-90 degrees-TM-[alpha-TE/2-STE]n) incorporating bipolar diffusion gradients that are less sensitive to macroscopic motion-induced artifacts is presented. Diffusion encoding was performed only during the first echo interva...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Yongbi MN,Ding S,Dunn JF

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional spatial-spectral radiofrequency pulses using a stack-of-spirals trajectory can achieve two-dimensional spatial localization and one-dimensional spectral selection simultaneously. These pulses are useful, for example, in reduced field-of-view applications that also require frequency specificity such a...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Deng W,Stenger VA

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combined MRI and 3D spectroscopic imaging (MRI/3D-MRSI) was used to study the metabolic effects of hormone-deprivation therapy in 65 prostate cancer patients, who underwent either short, intermediate, or long-term therapy, compared to 30 untreated control patients. There was a significant time-dependent loss of the pr...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Mueller-Lisse UG,Swanson MG,Vigneron DB,Hricak H,Bessette A,Males RG,Wood PJ,Noworolski S,Nelson SJ,Barken I,Carroll PR,Kurhanewicz J

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Segmented interleaved echo planar imaging offers a fast and efficient approach to magnetic resonance angiography. Unfortunately, this technique is particularly sensitive to oblique flow in the imaging plane. In this work, a mathematical analysis of oblique flow effects for several types of k-space coverage is presente...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Beck G,Li D,Haacke EM,Noll TG,Schad LR

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The image intensity in magnetic resonance magnitude images in the presence of noise is shown to be governed by a Rician distribution. Low signal intensities (SNR < 2) are therefore biased due to the noise. It is shown how the underlying noise can be estimated from the images and a simple correction scheme is provided ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Gudbjartsson H,Patz S

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A potential relationship between structural compartments in neural tissue and NMR parameters may increase the specificity of MRI in diagnosing diseases. Nevertheless, our understanding of MR of nerves and white matter is limited, particularly the influence of various water compartments on the MR signal is not known. I...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Peled S,Cory DG,Raymond SA,Kirschner DA,Jolesz FA

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work aimed to investigate the effects of administering Gd-DTPA on the BOLD effect, and to determine the feasibility of using this approach to measure fractional changes in blood volume and blood oxygenation on neuronal activation during a visual paradigm. A linear relationship between cortical R(2)(*) and the int...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Pears JA,Francis ST,Butterworth SE,Bowtell RW,Gowland PA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a method for correcting the chemical-shift artifacts in 19F NMR imaging of perfluoroctylbromide emulsion (PFOB) by utilizing the two spectral peaks of PFOB which have a long T2 value in conjunction with the Dixon method. Corrected images are obtained from the magnitude of the measured images using...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lee HK,Nalcioglu O,Buxton RB

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We improved the three-point phase-contrast method by regularization of MR velocity data after acquisition of a low velocity-to-noise ratio (VNR) velocity image and a high VNR aliased velocity image. The phase unwrapping algorithm is based on the assumed correlation of the velocity of adjacent flow voxels on the low VN...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Herment A,Mousseaux E,Jolivet O,DeCesare A,Frouin F,Todd-Pokropek A,Bittoun J

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have obtained high-field (11.7 Tesla), high-resolution carbon-13 solid-state "magic-angle" sample-spinning nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra of a variety of phospholipids, sphingolipids, myelin and white matter samples, resolving and assigning over 40 resonances in the spectra of human and bovine myelin. The...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Husted C,Montez B,Le C,Moscarello MA,Oldfield E

更新日期：1993-02-01 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：: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：:The regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) values determined using continuous arterial spin labeling (CASL) are subject to several sources of variability, including natural physiologic variations, sensitivity to the input parameters, and the use of different quantification models. To date, a thorough analysis of the impa...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Steger TR,White RA,Jackson EF

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Preclinical imaging of myocardial blood flow (MBF) can elucidate molecular mechanisms underlying cardiovascular disease. We compared the repeatability and variability of two methods, first-pass MRI and arterial spin labeling (ASL), for imaging MBF in mice. METHODS:Quantitative perfusion MRI in mice was perform...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Naresh NK,Chen X,Moran E,Tian Y,French BA,Epstein FH

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each k-space segment in multishot diffusion-weighted MRI is affected by a different spatially varying phase which is caused by unavoidable motions and amplified by the diffusion-encoding gradients. A proper image reconstruction therefore requires phase maps for each segment. Such maps are commonly derived from two-dim...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Uecker M,Karaus A,Frahm J

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional magnetization-prepared (MP) MR angiography (MRA) was applied to the carotid and vertebral arteries by using ECG triggering, a slab selective RF inversion pulse, centric phase encoding and acquisition during diastole. Both theoretically and experimentally, the MP MRA sequence was shown to perform well...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wilman AH,Huston J 3rd,Riederer SJ

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parameter-selective imaging for tissue characterization is performed at low magnetic fields (0.24-0.28 T) employing echo trains with a large number of echoes (less than or equal to 50), high-power pulses, and the projection reconstruction method. Preprocessing of the raw echoes is important for the quality of the echo...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Staemmler M,Gersonde K

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We exploit the intrinsic difference in magnetic resonance spin-spin relaxation time, T2, between water associated with myelin sheaths and water in other central nervous system tissue in order to measure myelin water content within any region of an image or to generate indirectly a myelin map of the brain. In normal vo...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： MacKay A,Whittall K,Adler J,Li D,Paty D,Graeb D

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop and evaluate a free-breathing chemical-shift-encoded (CSE) spoiled gradient-recalled echo (SPGR) technique for whole-heart water-fat imaging at 3 Tesla (T). METHODS:We developed a three-dimensional (3D) multi-echo SPGR pulse sequence with electrocardiographic gating and navigator echoes and evaluate...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Taviani V,Hernando D,Francois CJ,Shimakawa A,Vigen KK,Nagle SK,Schiebler ML,Grist TM,Reeder SB

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manganese is a useful contrast agent for MRI of animals. Previously, it has been shown that systemic doses of MnCl(2) provide unique contrast in the rodent brain, enabling visualization of neuroarchitecture. The present work investigates the dose and temporal dependence of brain enhancement after i.v. administration o...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lee JH,Silva AC,Merkle H,Koretsky AP

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study is to increase the robustness of MR fingerprinting (MRF) toward subject motion. METHODS:A novel reconstruction algorithm, MOtion insensitive MRF (MORF), was developed, which uses an iterative reconstruction based retrospective motion correction approach. Each iteration loops through t...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Mehta BB,Ma D,Pierre EY,Jiang Y,Coppo S,Griswold MA

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Noninvasive imaging techniques that quantify renal tissue composition are needed to more accurately ascertain prognosis and monitor disease progression in polycystic kidney disease (PKD). Given the success of magnetization transfer (MT) imaging to characterize various tissue remodeling pathologies, it was teste...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kline TL,Irazabal MV,Ebrahimi B,Hopp K,Udoji KN,Warner JD,Korfiatis P,Mishra PK,Macura SI,Venkatesh SK,Lerman LO,Harris PC,Torres VE,King BF,Erickson BJ

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have noninvasively produced low-resolution, quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance images of cerebral blood flow in 2-ml voxels in eight cats. Typical signal-to-noise of 4 to 1 was obtained in cerebral voxels in 16.5-s epochs. Mean flow during normocapnia (paCO2 = 39 +/- 4 mm Hg) and hypercapnia (paCO2 = 62 +/- 4 ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Branch CA,Ewing JR,Helpern JA,Ordidge RJ,Butt S,Welch KM

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To perform quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) in negligible acquisition time and apply it to measuring iron-rich subcortical gray matter. METHODS:Whole brain QSM was performed using single-shot gradient echo-planar imaging (EPI) in under 7 seconds on a standard 1.5 T system for imaging brain iron in sub...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sun H,Wilman AH

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral blood volume changes with arterial carbon dioxide were monitored by proton T1-weighted MR images following administration of the intravascular contrast agent Gd-DTPA labeled with human serum albumin. Without MR contrast, no significant image intensity changes were observed with PaCO2. Following contrast, regi...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Moseley ME,Chew WM,White DL,Kucharczyk J,Litt L,Derugin N,Dupon J,Brasch RC,Norman D

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The feasibility of imaging musculoskeletal fibrous tissue components, such as menisci, ligaments, and tendons, with a conventional spoiled gradient echo technique is explored in vivo at 3 T and 7 T. METHODS:To this end, the echo time (TE1 ) of a conventional Fourier-encoded multicontrast three-dimensional SGPR...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Deligianni X,Bär P,Scheffler K,Trattnig S,Bieri O

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new approach to autocalibrating, coil-by-coil parallel imaging reconstruction, is presented. It is a generalized reconstruction framework based on self-consistency. The reconstruction problem is formulated as an optimization that yields the most consistent solution with the calibration and acquisition data. The appr...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lustig M,Pauly JM

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Over the last two decades, extended criteria have promoted an increased number of donor livers available for liver transplantation. But posttransplant graft loss is still a major concern. Macrovesicular hepatic steatosis (MHS) is recognized as the most significant prognostic histologic parameter in predicting p...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Chen G,Jiang J,Wang X,Yang M,Xie Y,Guo H,Tang H,Zhou L,Hu D,Kamel IR,Chen Z,Li Z

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Anesthesia is necessary for most animal studies requiring invasive procedures. It is well documented that various types of anesthesia modulate a wide variety of important metabolic and functional processes in the body, and as such, represent a potential limitation in the study design. In the present study, we a...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Qi H,Mariager CØ,Lindhardt J,Nielsen PM,Stødkilde-Jørgensen H,Laustsen C

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00