Electric properties tomography: Biochemical, physical and technical background, evaluation and clinical applications.

abstract：:In this study the conjugated macromolecular ligand, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA)-amide-dextran, was synthesized by attaching DTPA to the dextran macromolecule (M(r) approximately 6000) by a covalent amide bond. Subsequently, DTPA-amide-dextran was complexed with either of the two lanthanide metal ions dys...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Chu WJ,Elgavish GA

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The progression of Parkinson's disease (PD) seems to vary according to the disease stage, which greatly influences the management of PD patients. However, the underlying mechanism of progression in PD remains unclear. This study was designed to explore the progressive pattern of iron accumulation at different stages i...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Guan X,Xuan M,Gu Q,Huang P,Liu C,Wang N,Xu X,Luo W,Zhang M

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the GABA+ modeling accuracy of MEGA-PRESS GABA+-edited MRS data with various spectral quality scenarios, the influence of varying signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and linewidth on the model estimates was quantified. MEGA-PRESS data from 46 volunteers were averaged to generate a template MEGA-PRESS spectrum, ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Zöllner HJ,Oeltzschner G,Schnitzler A,Wittsack HJ

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two FDA-approved agents, ferumoxides (Feridex), a suspension of superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) nanoparticles and protamine sulfate, a drug used to reverse heparin anticoagulation, can be complexed and used to label cells magnetically ex vivo. Labeling stem cells with ferumoxides-protamine sulfate (FePro) complexe...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Arbab AS,Yocum GT,Rad AM,Khakoo AY,Fellowes V,Read EJ,Frank JA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated brain myo-inositol (m-Ins) concentration (a putative marker of neuroinflammation) has been reported in patients suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Obesity alone and T2DM have been found to be associated with a lower concentration of N-acetyloaspartate and N-acetylaspartylglutamate (tNAA, a marker...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Gazdzinski SP,Gaździńska AP,Orzeł J,Redlisz-Redlicki G,Pietruszka M,Mojkowska A,Pacho RA,Wylezol M

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An optimized semi-LASER sequence that is capable of acquiring artefact-free data with an echo time (TE) of 20.1 ms on a standard clinical 3 T MR system was developed. Simulations were performed to determine the optimal TEs that minimize the expected Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) as proxy for quantification accuracy of...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Landheer K,Gajdošík M,Juchem C

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sodium-calcium exchanger (NCX) is one of the transporters contributing to the control of intracellular calcium (Ca(2+)) concentration by normally mediating net Ca(2+) efflux. However, the reverse mode of the NCX can cause intracellular Ca(2+) concentration overload, which exacerbates the myocardial tissue injury r...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Waghorn B,Yang Y,Baba A,Matsuda T,Schumacher A,Yanasak N,Hu TC

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pain is a major problem for the individual and for society. Despite a range of drugs being available to treat chronic pain, only inadequate pain relief can be achieved for many patients. There is therefore a need for the development of new analgesic compounds. The assessment of pain depends to date entirely on...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Schweinhardt P,Bountra C,Tracey I

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand and predict the blood-oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) fMRI signal, an accurate knowledge of the relationship between cerebral blood flow (DeltaCBF) and volume (DeltaCBV) changes is critical. Currently, this relationship is widely assumed to be characterized by Grubb's power-law, derived from primate d...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Chen JJ,Pike GB

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional methods of measuring magnetization in magnetic fluid samples, such as vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM), are typically limited to maximum field strengths of about 1 T. This work demonstrates the ability of MRI to measure the magnetization associated with two commercial MRI contrast agents at 3 T by compa...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Cantillon-Murphy P,Wald LL,Zahn M,Adalsteinsson E

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal urea handling is central to the urine concentrating mechanism, and as such the ability to image urea transport in the kidney is an important potential imaging biomarker for renal functional assessment. Glucagon levels associated with changes in dietary protein intake have been shown to influence renal urea handl...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Qi H,Mariager CØ,Nielsen PM,Schroeder M,Lindhardt J,Nørregaard R,Klein JD,Sands JM,Laustsen C

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is characterized at histology by steatosis, hepatocyte ballooning and inflammatory infiltrates, with or without fibrosis. Although diamagnetic material in fibrosis and inflammation can be detected with quantitative susceptibility imaging, fatty acid composition changes in NASH rela...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Leporq B,Lambert SA,Ronot M,Vilgrain V,Van Beers BE

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally accepted that tumour microcirculation, blood flow, oxygen and nutrient supply, tissue pH distribution, and the bioenergetic status--factors which are usually closely linked and which define the so-called metabolic microenvironment--can markedly influence the therapeutic response of malignant tumours to...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Vaupel P

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of Parkinson's disease (PD) in its preclinical stages prior to outright neurodegeneration is essential to the development of neuroprotective therapies and could reduce the number of misdiagnosed patients. However, early diagnosis is currently hampered by lack of reliable biomarkers. (1) H magnetic resona...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Coune PG,Craveiro M,Gaugler MN,Mlynárik V,Schneider BL,Aebischer P,Gruetter R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-talk between adipose tissue and liver is disturbed in the metabolic syndrome. Moreover, the relative fatty acid composition of adipose and liver fat is poorly characterized. Long-TE (1)H MRS can determine the unsaturation and polyunsaturation of adipose tissue. The aim of this study was to use long-TE (1)H MRS t...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Lundbom J,Hakkarainen A,Söderlund S,Westerbacka J,Lundbom N,Taskinen MR

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmit efficiency specifies the amplitude of the magnetic resonance excitation field produced over a region of interest with respect to the radiofrequency (RF) power deposited in the sample. This metric is highly important at ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging (≥7 T), where excitation inhomogeneities and el...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Georgakis IP,Polimeridis AG,Lattanzi R

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exercise studies investigating the metabolic response of calf muscles using 31 P MRS are usually performed with a single knee angle. However, during natural movement, the distribution of workload between the main contributors to force, gastrocnemius and soleus is influenced by the knee angle. Hence, it is of interest ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Niess F,Fiedler GB,Schmid AI,Laistler E,Frass-Kriegl R,Wolzt M,Moser E,Meyerspeer M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of brain tumours in children would benefit from improved non-invasive diagnosis, characterisation and prognostic biomarkers. Metabolite profiles derived from in-vivo MRS have been shown to provide such information. Studies indicate that using optimum a priori information on metabolite contents in the constr...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Davies NP,Wilson M,Natarajan K,Sun Y,MacPherson L,Brundler MA,Arvanitis TN,Grundy RG,Peet AC

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative magnetization transfer (qMT) technique was employed to quantify the ratio of the sizes of the bound and free water proton pools in ex vivo mouse brains. The goal was to determine the pool size ratio sensitivity to myelin. Fixed brains from both shiverer mice and control littermates were imaged. The pool...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Ou X,Sun SW,Liang HF,Song SK,Gochberg DF

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T2 of NAA, creatine and choline-containing compounds were measured in posterior frontal white matter and occipital grey matter in 10 healthy human volunteers. Decay curves comprised signals from eight TE times ranging from 30 to 800 ms with TR 2000 ms acquired with a PRESS sequence on a 1.5 T clinical scanner. Simulat...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Brief EE,Whittall KP,Li DK,MacKay AL

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method to extract shapes of bubble polyhedra from three-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance image data of foam has been developed. The method consists of four steps: first, to compute series of maximum intensity projection images from the three-dimensional NMR image data of foam to visualize the network structure...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Kashiwagi K,Kose K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spin-exchange NMR techniques enable the measurement of the rates of exchange of solutes between chemically or physically distinct sites in reactions taking place at chemical equilibrium. The time scale of the events that are able to be investigated lies in the neighbourhood of 1 s. The earliest studies in this area of...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Kuchel PW

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main aim of this study was to employ high-resolution MRI to investigate the spatiotemporal development of pathological features associated with contusive spinal cord injury (SCI) in mice. Experimental mice were subjected to either sham surgery or moderate contusive SCI. A 16.4-T small-animal MR system was employed...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Blomster LV,Cowin GJ,Kurniawan ND,Ruitenberg MJ

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of NMR spectroscopic and microscopic MRI (microMRI) techniques were used to study proton dynamics in canine tendon and articular cartilage immersed in normal saline solution (NaCl solution) and high-concentration phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) solution. In a proton CPMG experiment on tendons, the T(2) relaxa...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Zheng S,Xia Y

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major goals of hyperpolarized-gas MR imaging has been to obtain (129)Xe dissolved-phase images in humans. Since the dissolved-phase signal is much weaker than the gas-phase signal, highly optimized MR pulse sequences are required to obtain adequate images during a single breath-hold. In particular, a solid ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Ruppert K,Brookeman JR,Hagspiel KD,Driehuys B,Mugler JP 3rd

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy and precision of the quantification of metabolite concentrations in in vivo (1) H NMR spectroscopy are affected by linewidth and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). To study the effect of both factors in in vivo (1) H NMR spectra acquired at ultrahigh field, a reference spectrum was generated by summing nine in ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Hong ST,Pohmann R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the change of breast density in the normal breast of patients receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). Forty-four breast cancer patients were studied. MRI acquisition was performed before treatment (baseline), and 4 and 12 weeks after treatment. A computer-algorithm-based program...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Chen JH,Pan WF,Kao J,Lu J,Chen LK,Kuo CC,Chang CK,Chen WP,McLaren CE,Bahri S,Mehta RS,Su MY

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In imaging of human lungs with hyperpolarised noble gases, measurements of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and relaxation time provide valuable information for the assessment of lung microstructure. In this work, a sequence was developed for interleaved acquisition of ventilation images, ADC, T(2)* and flip angle...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Ajraoui S,Parra-Robles J,Marshall H,Deppe MH,Clemence M,Wild JM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperglycemia (blood glucose concentration >150 mg/dL) is common in extremely low gestational age newborns (ELGANs; birth at <28 week gestation). Hyperglycemia increases the risk of brain injury in the neonatal period. The long-term effects are not well understood. In adult rats, hyperglycemia alters hippocampal energ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Rao R,Nashawaty M,Fatima S,Ennis K,Tkac I

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel iodoacetamide label 4-perfluoro-tert-butyl-phenyliodoacetamide (PFP) containing nine fluorine atoms in equivalent positions has been synthesized. It provides a homogeneous 19F NMR resonance line which can be detected with high sensitivity when coupled to proteins. As an example, the sulfhydryl groups of actin ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Kalbitzer HR,Rohr G,Nowak E,Goody RS,Kuhn W,Zimmermann H

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00