3D image-based navigators for coronary MR angiography.

abstract：:A novel tagging method is introduced that increases the spatial resolution of estimates of myocardial radial thickening. The separation of adjacent parallel tag planes is customized to match the expected motion of specific regions of the heart wall. In regions in which the tags increase their separation over systole (...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： McVeigh ER,Bolster BD Jr

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional MRI is typically performed with the same orientation for radiofrequency slab excitation and slab select phase encoding. We introduce independent slab excitation and encoding to create a new degree of freedom in three-dimensional MRI, which is the angular relationship between the prescribed excitation...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Eissa A,Wilman AH

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:An increasing number of studies show that magnetic susceptibility in white matter fibers is anisotropic and may be described by a tensor. However, the limited head rotation possible for in vivo human studies leads to an ill-conditioned inverse problem in susceptibility tensor imaging (STI). Here we suggest the ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Li X,van Zijl PC

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:As prescribed and reliable geometrical entities, phantoms have served as indispensable validation tools in a variety of MR-related topics. Though a number of phantoms have been conceived, certain applications may warrant highly customized geometries. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the expediency o...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kasten JA,Vetterli T,Lazeyras F,Van De Ville D

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short image acquisition times and sensitivity to magnetic susceptibility favor the use of gradient echo imaging methods in functional MRI (fMRI). However, magnetic susceptibility effects attributed to air-tissue interfaces also lead to severe signal loss in images of the large inferior frontal and lateral temporal cor...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Yang QX,Dardzinski BJ,Li S,Eslinger PJ,Smith MB

更新日期：1997-03-01 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

abstract：:In order to determine if an increase in myocardial oxygen consumption is accompanied by changes in high energy phosphates in normal subjects and patients with dilated cardiomyopathy, phosphorus-31 spectra were acquired under resting conditions and during dobutamine infusion. In seven normal subjects, dobutamine raised...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Schaefer S,Schwartz GG,Steinman SK,Meyerhoff DJ,Massie BM,Weiner MW

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronal proton and sodium images of control rats and rats with either increased permeability edema produced by intravenous alloxan (300 mg/kg) or increased pressure edema produced by saline infusion (2 ml/min) were obtained. Axial chest CT images were used to monitor the development of pulmonary edema. Immediately aft...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kundel HL,Shetty A,Joseph PM,Summers RM,Kassab EA,Moore B

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the static magnetic field strength used in human magnetic resonance imaging increases, the wavelength of the corresponding radiofrequency field becomes comparable to the dimensions of the coil and volume of interest. The dielectric resonance effects that arise in this full wavelength regime may be partially compens...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Pinkerton RG,Barberi EA,Menon RS

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Evaluate the usefulness of single-shot and of interleaved spatiotemporally encoded (SPEN) methods to perform diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) under various preclinical and clinical settings. METHODS:A formalism for analyzing SPEN DTI data is presented, tailored to account for the spatially dependent b-matrix wei...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Solomon E,Liberman G,Nissan N,Frydman L

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1H transverse nuclear magnetic relaxation times (T2) and self-diffusion coefficients (SDCs) of water were measured in isolated proteoglycan aggregates from pig articular cartilage. The influence of varying osmotic pressure, as well as of different calcium concentrations, on the samples was investigated. Due to a struc...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Werner A,Gründer W

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A magnetic resonance imaging method is presented for quantifying the degree to which water diffusion in biologic tissues is non-Gaussian. Since tissue structure is responsible for the deviation of water diffusion from the Gaussian behavior typically observed in homogeneous solutions, this method provides a specific me...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Jensen JH,Helpern JA,Ramani A,Lu H,Kaczynski K

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that is sensitive to myocardial tissue perfusion that obviates the use of an extrinsic contrast agent. Significant advantages of such a technique are that it avoids accumulation of contrast agent when repeated studies are performed on the same subject and tha...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Prasad PV,Burstein D,Edelman RR

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The heterogeneous tumor cell population and dynamic microenvironment within a tumor lead to regional variations in cell proliferation, migration, and differentiation. In this work, MRI and optical projection tomography were used to examine and compare the redistribution of a cellular label in two mouse glioma m...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Gazdzinski LM,Nieman BJ

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiofrequency induced pacemaker lead tip heating is one of the main reasons magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is contraindicated for patients with pacemakers. The objective of this work was to evaluate the dependence of pacemaker lead tip heating during MRI scanning on the electrical conductivity of the medium surroun...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Langman DA,Goldberg IB,Judy J,Paul Finn J,Ennis DB

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a three-dimensional, free-breathing, late gadolinium enhancement (3D FB-LGE) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) technique, and to compare it with clinically used two-dimensional breath-hold LGE (2D BH-LGE). METHODS:The proposed 3D FB-LGE method consisted of inversion preparation, inversion dela...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Menon RG,Miller GW,Jeudy J,Rajagopalan S,Shin T

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NMRD profiles, the magnetic field dependence of the water proton longitudinal relaxation rates, have been acquired for two new diphosphonate-modified GdDTPA complexes currently under evaluation as relaxation agents for the MRI detection of soft-tissue calcifications. Fresh dilute solutions show profiles identical to t...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Adzamli IK,Blau M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time-dependent changes of T1 in the rotating frame (T1rho), diffusion, T2, and magnetization transfer contrast on cardiac arrest-induced global ischemia in rat were investigated. T1rho, as acquired with spin lock amplitudes >0.6 G, started to increase 10-20 sec after cardiac arrest followed by an increase within 3-4 m...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kettunen MI,Gröhn OH,Penttonen M,Kauppinen RA

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Currently, the time required for image reconstruction is prohibitively long if data are acquired using multidimensional imaging trajectories that make use of multichannel systems equipped with nonlinear gradients. Methods are presented that reduce the computational complexity of the iterative time-domain recons...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Schultz G,Gallichan D,Reisert M,Hennig J,Zaitsev M

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prepolarized MRI uses pulsed magnetic fields to produce MR images by polarizing the sample at one field strength (approximately 0.5 T) before imaging at a much lower field (approximately 50 mT). Contrast reflecting the T(1) of the sample at an intermediate field strength is achieved by polarizing the sample and then a...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ungersma SE,Matter NI,Hardy JW,Venook RD,Macovski A,Conolly SM,Scott GC

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton-electron double-resonance imaging (PEDRI) was used to assess renal function by monitoring the flow of the exogenous nitroxide free radical proxyl carboxylic acid (PCA) through normal and injured kidneys in the living rat. Kidney damage was induced by treatment with 2-bromoethylamine (BEA), which provides a well...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Seimenis I,Foster MA,Lurie DJ,Hutchison JM,Whiting PH,Payne S

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gradient technique to measure electron paramagnetic resonance spectra simultaneously at several different locations is described. The technique is based on the use of point probes containing paramagnetic centers. The value of the magnetic field gradient is chosen to be sufficient to separate the EPR signals from the...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Smirnov AI,Norby SW,Clarkson RB,Walczak T,Swartz HM

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that when compared to conventional spin-echo (CSE) imaging for equivalent effective echo times, fast spin-echo (FSE) imaging experiments yield higher signal intensities for coupled spin systems, such as that for lipid. One hypothesis put forth for this phenomenon is the removal of scalar coupling-base...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Williamson DS,Mulken RV,Jakab PD,Jolesz FA

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proton exchange rates between water and the hydroxyl protons of threonine, serine, tyrosine, the amino protons of lysine, and the guanidinium protons of arginine were measured in the pH range 0.5 to 8.5 and for the temperatures 4 degrees C, 10 degrees C, 20 degrees C, 30 degrees C, and 36 degrees C. The intrinsic ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Liepinsh E,Otting G

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatially resolved spectroscopy (SPARS) is a method for obtaining high-resolution NMR spectra of well-defined volumes of human tissues in situ. This method was combined with the Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill multiple-echo sequence for T2, and with inversion recovery for T1 relaxation measurements. Relaxation times obtaine...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Luyten PR,Anderson CM,den Hollander JA

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simulations of dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) MRI are frequently performed by assuming a certain shape for the input function and the microvascular response function. However, to investigate the influence of parameters that will affect the shape of the input function, a more complex model of the human vasculatu...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： van Osch MJ,Vonken EJ,Wu O,Viergever MA,van der Grond J,Bakker CJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is demonstrated that birdcage resonators, satisfying conditions of quadrature operation and radiofrequency field homogeneity, can be realized in practice on formers of non-circular cross section described by an equation of the form (x/a)n + (y/b)n = 1 where a and b are constants and n > or = 2 is an integer. Using ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Riauka TA,De Zanche NF,Thompson R,Vermeulen FE,Capjack CE,Allen PS

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetization transfer effects represent a major source of contrast in multislice turbo spin echo sequences (TSE)/fast spin echo sequences. Generally, low refocusing flip angles have become common in such MRI sequences, especially to mitigate specific absorption rate problems. Since the strength of magnetization trans...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Weigel M,Helms G,Hennig J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A type of local coil (or surface coil) for magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy is described in which two circular loops of the same diameter are disposed axially with respect to each other and in which counter rotating currents (CRC) are supported in the two loops. This type of coil has been used for localized...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Froncisz W,Jesmanowicz A,Kneeland JB,Hyde JS

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assumption of linear time-invariance (LTI) in the human primary somatosensory cortex (SI) is assessed for fMRI signals generated by variable-duration vibrotactile stimuli. Predictions based on time-shifted summation (TSS) of responses to 2 s stimuli overestimate observed BOLD signal amplitudes in response to longe...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Nangini C,Macintosh BJ,Tam F,Staines WR,Graham SJ

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00