Perturbation of longitudinal relaxation rate in rotating frame (PLRF) analysis for quantification of chemical exchange saturation transfer signal in a transient state.

abstract：:To increase image acquisition efficiency, we develop alternative gradient encoding strategies designed to provide spatial encoding complementary to the spatial encoding provided by the multiple receiver coil elements in parallel image acquisitions. Intuitively, complementary encoding is achieved when the magnetic fiel...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Tam LK,Stockmann JP,Galiana G,Constable RT

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Volume-localized proton NMR spectroscopy was used to estimate bone marrow cellularity in the posterior iliac crests of patients undergoing treatment with hematopoietic growth factors for a variety of hematologic and neoplastic disorders. Twelve patients were accrued, six of whom were studied more than once, yielding a...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ballon D,Jakubowski A,Gabrilove J,Graham MC,Zakowski M,Sheridan C,Koutcher JA

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reaching the full potential of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-positron emission tomography (PET) dual modality systems requires new methodologies in quantitative image analyses. In this study, methods are proposed to convert an arterial input function (AIF) derived from gadolinium-diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Poulin E,Lebel R,Croteau E,Blanchette M,Tremblay L,Lecomte R,Bentourkia M,Lepage M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop and evaluate a method for RF envelope correction without extra hardware or synchronization. METHODS:Transmitted RF waveforms are measured through a simple pulse sequence called the gradient reversal approach to evaluate RF (GRATER). The measured RF waveforms are used to compute predistorted RF wavef...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Landes VL,Nayak KS

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We propose a constrained optimization approach for designing parallel transmit (pTx) pulses satisfying all regulatory and hardware limits. We study the trade-offs between excitation accuracy, local and global specific absorption rate (SAR), and maximum and average power for small flip-angle pTx (eight channels)...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Guérin B,Gebhardt M,Cauley S,Adalsteinsson E,Wald LL

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of the volume magnetic susceptibility of solids using the classical Gouy balance approach are hampered by variations in apparent density of the packed powder. In this paper a quantitative NMR measurement of the volume magnetic susceptibility of powdered solids is described and the volume susceptibility of...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hopkins JA,Wehrli FW

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Establishing a high-resolution non-ECG-gated first-pass perfusion (FPP) cardiac MRI technique may improve accessibility and diagnostic capability of FPP imaging. We propose a non-ECG-gated FPP imaging technique using continuous magnetization-driven golden-angle radial acquisition. The main purpose of this preli...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sharif B,Dharmakumar R,Arsanjani R,Thomson L,Bairey Merz CN,Berman DS,Li D

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present work, diffusion-weighted (DW)-NMR spectroscopy of glutamate was performed during a (13)C-labeled glucose infusion in monkey brain (six experiments). It is shown that glutamate (13)C labeling occurs significantly faster at higher diffusion weightings-slightly for glutamate in position C4, and more marked...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Valette J,Chaumeil M,Guillermier M,Bloch G,Hantraye P,Lebon V

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop and evaluate a technique for accelerating phase contrast MRI (PC-MRI) acquisitions without significant compromise in flow quantification accuracy. METHODS:PC-MRI is commonly acquired using interleaved flow-compensated (FC) and flow-encoded (FE) echoes. We hypothesized that FC data, which represent b...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wang D,Shao J,Rapacchi S,Middione MJ,Ennis DB,Hu P

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a technique based on arterial spin labeling, called dynamic arterial spin labeling (DASL (Magn Reson Med 1999;41:299-308)), has been introduced to measure simultaneously the transit time of the labeled blood from the labeling plane to the exchange site, the longitudinal relaxation time of the tissue, and the...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Barbier EL,Silva AC,Kim SG,Koretsky AP

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ECG-gated cardiac MRI in the mouse is hindered by many technical difficulties in ECG signal recording inside static and variable high magnetic scanner fields. The present study proposes an alternative robust method of acquiring auto-gated cardiac and respiratory cine images in mouse heart. In our approach, a motion sy...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hiba B,Richard N,Janier M,Croisille P

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In conventional three-dimensional magnetic resonance elastography, motion encoding gradients (MEGs) synchronized to a mechanical excitation are applied separately in each direction to encode tissue displacement generated by the corresponding waves. This requires long acquisition times that introduce errors due ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Nir G,Sahebjavaher RS,Sinkus R,Salcudean SE

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is presented that improves the effectiveness of RF-spoiling whenever an image consists of the averaging of several identical single acquisitions. Using this method, it becomes possible to reduce the necessary moment of the spoiler gradient by a factor equal to the number of averages. The idea is to perform th...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Leupold J,Hennig J

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The correlation between glutamine metabolism and oncogene expression in cancers has led to a renewed interest in the role of glutamine in cancer cell survival. Hyperpolarized [5-(13) C]glutamine is evaluated as a potential biomarker for noninvasive metabolic measurements of drug response in prostate cancer cell...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Canapè C,Catanzaro G,Terreno E,Karlsson M,Lerche MH,Jensen PR

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To establish a series of relationships defining how muscle microstructure and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) are related. METHODS:The relationship among key microstructural features of skeletal muscle (fiber size, fibrosis, edema, and permeability) and the diffusion tensor were systematically simulated over ph...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Berry DB,Regner B,Galinsky V,Ward SR,Frank LR

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method is presented to detect, localize, and quantify myocardial kinematics by measuring the material rate-of-strain tensor at each pixel in gated NMR images of the heart. The immediate, local effect of muscular activity is self-deformation, and the strain tensor is the basic mathema...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wedeen VJ

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical spinal cord spectroscopy has the potential to add metabolic information to spinal cord MRI and improve the clinical evaluation and research investigation of spinal cord diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and intraspinal tumors. However, in vivo proton MR spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS) of the spinal cord is di...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Marliani AF,Clementi V,Albini-Riccioli L,Agati R,Leonardi M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To improve the imaging quality of vessel walls with an endoesophageal Wireless Amplified NMR Detector (WAND). METHODS:A cylindrically shaped double-frequency resonator has been constructed with a single metal wire that is self-connected by a pair of nonlinear capacitors. The double-frequency resonator can conv...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zeng X,Barbic M,Chen L,Qian C

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:MUSSELS is a one-step iterative reconstruction method for multishot diffusion weighted (msDW) imaging. The current work presents an efficient implementation, termed IRLS MUSSELS, that enables faster reconstruction to enhance its utility for high-resolution diffusion MRI studies. METHODS:The recently proposed M...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Mani M,Aggarwal HK,Magnotta V,Jacob M

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spin-echo images of 10 myocardial infarcts in nine mini-pigs were obtained at 30 h, 3 days, and approximately 10 days postinfarction. Infarcts were not detected at all at 30 h in five out of five cases examined. At 3 days postembolization (six cases) one infarct was certainly detected, whilst at 10 days (nine cases) a...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Checkley D,Loveday BE,Waterton JC,Zhu XP,Isherwood I

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：PURPOSE:A systematic study of the short-term and long-term variability of regional alveolar partial pressure of oxygen tension (pA O2 ) measurements using (3) He magnetic resonance imaging was presented. Additionally, the repeatability of the average evaluated pA O2 was compared with that of the standard pulmonary func...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hamedani H,Kadlecek SJ,Ishii M,Emami K,Kuzma NN,Xin Y,Rossman M,Rizi RR

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitroprusside, a vasodilatory nitric oxide donor, is clinically used during vascular surgery and to lower blood pressure in acute hypertension. This article reports a novel application of blood flow (BF) and blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) MRI on an 11.7T scanner to image the rat chorioretinal BF and BOLD cha...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Shih YY,Li G,Muir ER,De La Garza BH,Kiel JW,Duong TQ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-slab 3D turbo/fast spin echo (SE) imaging with very long echo trains was recently introduced with slab selection using a highly selective excitation pulse and short, nonselective refocusing pulses with variable flip angles for high imaging efficiency. This technique, however, is vulnerable to image degradation ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Park J,Mugler JP 3rd,Hughes T

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic imaging strategies often involve updating certain areas of k-space (i.e., the low spatial frequencies) more frequently than others. However, important dynamic signal changes may occur anywhere in k-space. In this study, a dynamic k-space sampling analysis method was developed to determine the energy error asso...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wu Y,Alexander AL

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimally invasive cardiac surgery requires arresting and emptying of the heart, which compromises visualization of the surgical field. In this feasibility study a novel surgical procedure is demonstrated in which real-time MRI is used to guide the placement of a prosthetic aortic valve in the beating heart via direct...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： McVeigh ER,Guttman MA,Lederman RJ,Li M,Kocaturk O,Hunt T,Kozlov S,Horvath KA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For sodium imaging of the human brain, Gibbs' ringing can degrade image appearance and confound image analysis; k-space filtering is generally required. In this work, the signal to noise ratio (SNR) advantage of sampling density weighted apodization (SDWA) over uniform k-space sampling with postacquisition filtering a...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Stobbe R,Beaulieu C

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The manufacturing of intravascular imaging coils poses several challenges. Due to their size, it can be difficult to incorporate local matching networks and signal amplifiers. The goal of this study is to investigate tuning and amplification strategies for intravascular coils and to assess the signal-to-noise benefits...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Yak N,Anderson KJ,Wright GA

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop and evaluate a novel dynamic contrast-enhanced imaging technique called RACER-GRASP (Respiratory-weighted, Aortic Contrast Enhancement-guided and coil-unstReaking Golden-angle RAdial Sparse Parallel) MRI that extends GRASP to include automatic contrast bolus timing, respiratory motion compensation, a...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Feng L,Huang C,Shanbhogue K,Sodickson DK,Chandarana H,Otazo R

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among previous analyses of the steady-state free-precession (SSFP) signal in rapid MRI, one treatment resulted in equations that require the evaluation of infinite binomial series. Here, an analytical solution is derived by a transformation into the power series expansion of the derivative of the inverse sine function...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hänicke W,Vogel HU

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00