Increased robustness in reference region model analysis of DCE MRI using two-step constrained approaches.

abstract：:The fate of the 13C label arising from [U-13C]succinate in rabbit renal proximal convoluted tubular (PCT) cells, incubated with [U-13C]succinate, was investigated by 13C NMR spectroscopy of the perchloric acid extracts of the cell pellets. The 13C label of [U-13C]succinate was predominantly metabolized into glutamate,...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Jans AW,Willem R

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to evaluate a new inline motion compensation approach called image-based navigation with Constant Respiratory efficiency UsIng Single End-expiratory threshold (iNAV-CRUISE) for coronary MR angiography (CMRA). METHODS:The CRUISE gating technique was combined with iNAV motion correc...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Henningsson M,Smink J,van Ensbergen G,Botnar R

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) measures stiffness of soft tissues by analyzing their spatial harmonic response to externally induced shear vibrations. Many MRE methods use inversion-based reconstruction approaches, which invoke first- or second-order derivatives by finite difference operators (first- and...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Mura J,Schrank F,Sack I

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Sensitivity encoding (SENSE) reconstruction of multiband echo planar imaging (EPI) may cause artifacts when simultaneously excited slices require different phase correction to remove the EPI-specific ghost shifted by half of the matrix size (N). We propose a simplified solution of this problem that combines SEN...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hennel F,Buehrer M,von Deuster C,Seuven A,Pruessmann KP

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To characterize pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (pCASL) through simulations of spin inversion and to discuss suitable parameter settings for measuring cerebral perfusion. METHODS:Simulations of arterial spin inversion in pCASL were performed based on the Bloch equation. Both the labeling and the contr...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lorenz K,Mildner T,Schlumm T,Möller HE

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the uncertainties on relative Cramér-Rao lower bound (rCRB) estimates and demonstrate their biasing effects in MRS quantification. THEORY AND METHODS:Simulations were performed to calculate the distribution of the computed rCRB (noted rCRB*) for several rCRB levels. One hundred thousand simulati...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bonny JM,Pagès G

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The somatotopical organization of the human somatosensory cortex was analyzed with echo-planar imaging at 1.5 Tesla, utilizing deoxyhemoglobin as an endogenous contrast medium. Scrubbing stimulation at a frequency of 3 Hz was applied to one of three cutaneous areas: toes, fingertips, and tongue tip. Parasagittal echo-...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sakai K,Watanabe E,Onodera Y,Itagaki H,Yamamoto E,Koizumi H,Miyashita Y

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulsed arterial spin labeling (ASL) techniques provide a noninvasive method of obtaining qualitative and quantitative perfusion images with MRI. ASL techniques employ inversion recovery and/or saturation recovery to induce perfusion weighting, and thus the performance of these techniques is dependent on the slice prof...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Keilholz-George SD,Knight-Scott J,Berr SS

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To optimize and investigate the influence of bipolar gradients for flow suppression in metabolic quantification of hyperpolarized 13 C chemical shift imaging (CSI) of mouse liver at 9.4 T. METHODS:The trade-off between the amount of flow suppression using bipolar gradients and T2* effect from static spins was ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lee H,Lee J,Joe E,Yang S,Song JE,Choi YS,Wang E,Joo CG,Song HT,Kim DH

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In in vivo (1)H spectroscopy, the signal at 1.32 ppm is usually assigned to lactate. This resonance position is shared with threonine at physiological pH. The similarity of spectral patterns of lactate and threonine renders the separate measurement of either threonine or lactate without and even with editing technical...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Marjanska M,Henry PG,Uğurbil K,Gruetter R

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Higher field strengths entail less homogeneous RF fields. This may influence quantitative MRI and MRS. A method for rapidly mapping the RF field in the human head with minimal distortion was developed on the basis of a single-shot stimulated echo acquisition mode (STEAM) sequence. The flip angle of the second RF pulse...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Helms G,Finsterbusch J,Weiskopf N,Dechent P

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work a model-free arterial spin labeling (ASL) quantification approach for measuring cerebral blood flow (CBF) and arterial blood volume (aBV) is proposed. The method is based on the acquisition of a train of multiple images following the labeling scheme. Perfusion is obtained using deconvolution in a manner s...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Petersen ET,Lim T,Golay X

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new 3D acquisition regimen that enables the collection of conventional, water-suppressed, and fat-suppressed images with no increase in scan times compared with currently implemented 3D sequences is presented. The method is based on conventional 3D steady state with interleaved selective excitation of the fat resona...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sun L,Aletras AH,Schmalbrock P,Skinner TE,Chakeres D,Irsik R,Robitaille PM

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To introduce a multiplatform, Python language-based, development environment called graphical programming interface for prototyping MRI techniques. METHODS:The interface allows developers to interact with their scientific algorithm prototypes visually in an event-driven environment making tasks such as paramet...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zwart NR,Pipe JG

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel method based on selective detection of rapidly changing DeltaB(0) magnetic fields and suppression of slowly changing DeltaB(0) fields is presented. The ultimate goal of this work is to present a method that may allow detection of transient and subtle changes in B(0) in cortical tissue associated with electrica...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bodurka J,Bandettini PA

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the use of dynamic, volumetric MRI to measure 3D skeletal motion. Ten healthy subjects were positioned on a MR-compatible knee loading device and instructed to harmonically flex and extend their knee at 0.5 Hz. The device induced active quadriceps loading with knee flexion, similar to the load ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kaiser J,Bradford R,Johnson K,Wieben O,Thelen DG

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:MRI-guided high intensity focused ultrasound (MR-HIFU) allows noninvasive heating of deep tissues. Specifically targeting visceral fat deposits with MR-HIFU could offer an effective therapy for reversing the development of obesity, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. METHODS:Overweight rats received either MR-HI...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Winter PM,Lanier M,Partanen A,Dumoulin C

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The theoretical description of steady state free precession (SSFP) sequences is generally well accepted and unquestioned, although it is based on instantaneously acting radiofrequency (RF) pulses. In practice, however, all excitation processes are finite, thereby questioning the overall validity of the common SSFP sig...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bieri O,Scheffler K

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：:Some of the important features of how pulsatile flow generates artifacts in three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging are analyzed and demonstrated. Time variations in the magnetic resonance signal during the heart cycle lead to more complex patterns of artifacts in 3D imaging than in 2D imaging. The appearance and...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Frank LR,Buxton RB,Kerber CW

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To achieve artifact-suppressed whole-brain pass-band-balanced steady-state free precession functional MRI from a single functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan. METHODS:A complete and practical data acquisition sequence for alt-SSFP fMRI was developed. First, multishot flyback-echo-planar imaging (EP...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Jou T,Patterson S,Pauly JM,Bowen CV

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：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：: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：:Skeletal muscle triglycerides are markers for insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes. Recently, MR spectroscopy was adapted for in vivo measurement of triglycerides in animal models and for the characterization of new therapeutic approaches. Because of small MR spectroscopy voxel sizes used in skeletal muscles, surface...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Neumaier M,Niessen HG,Kaulisch T,Stiller D

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiofrequency (RF) -spoiled gradient echo sequences were developed with the aim to produce images with T(1) weighted contrast within short acquisition time. Over the past two decades, this type of sequence has proven to be a robust technique and represents a reliable workhorse in clinical MRI. This study presents an ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Leupold J,Hennig J,Scheffler K

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An effective shield for the dc fringing fields produced by a large-bore, high field magnet intended for imaging and in vivo spectroscopy is presented. While limiting the extent of fringe fields, the shield has little effect on the homogeneity of the central field of the magnet. The effect of institutional safety polic...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ewing JR,Timms W,Williams JE,Welch KM

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Neural networks have received recent interest for reconstruction of undersampled MR acquisitions. Ideally, network performance should be optimized by drawing the training and testing data from the same domain. In practice, however, large datasets comprising hundreds of subjects scanned under a common protocol a...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Dar SUH,Özbey M,Çatlı AB,Çukur T

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In several applications, MRI is used to monitor the time behavior of the signal in an organ of interest; e.g., signal evolution because of physiological motion, activation, or contrast-agent accumulation. Dynamic applications involve acquiring data in a k-t space, which contains both temporal and spatial information. ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Madore B,Glover GH,Pelc NJ

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of an in-plane B(1) sensitivity encoding (SENSE) technique with a simultaneous multiple-slice B(0) field step technique (multiple-acquisition micro B(0) array (MAMBA)) has produced high scan time reduction factors (R < or = 8). In this study, two slices were acquired simultaneously in combination with ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Paley MN,Lee KJ,Wild JM,Fichele S,Whitby EH,Wilkinson ID,Van Beek EJ,Griffiths PD

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00