Optimized saturation pulse train for human first-pass myocardial perfusion imaging at 7T.

abstract：:Sinusoidal capillarization induces microcirculatory changes in liver cirrhosis and fibrosis. The purpose of this study was to assess whether contrast-enhanced MRI can be used to demonstrate the effects of sinusoidal capillarization in liver fibrosis. Dynamic MRI after injection of a low-molecular-weight contrast agent...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Van Beers BE,Materne R,Annet L,Hermoye L,Sempoux C,Peeters F,Smith AM,Jamart J,Horsmans Y

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：:Although promising for visualizing the structure of ordered tissues, MR diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has been hampered by long acquisition time and low spatial resolution associated with its inherently low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Moreover, the uncertainty in the DTI measurements has a direct impact on the accur...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Chen B,Hsu EW

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique for reconstructing dynamic undersampled MRI data, termed "x-f choice," was developed and applied to dynamic contrast-enhanced MR angiography (DCE-MRA). Regular undersampling in k-t space (a hybrid of k-space and time) creates aliasing in the conjugate x-f space that must be resolved. When regions in the ob...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Malik SJ,Schmitz S,O'Regan D,Larkman DJ,Hajnal JV

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To improve multichannel compressed sensing (CS) reconstruction for MR proton resonance frequency (PRF) shift thermography, with application to MRI-induced RF heating evaluation and MR guided high intensity focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) temperature monitoring. METHODS:A new compressed sensing reconstruction is pr...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Cao Z,Gore JC,Grissom WA

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:A direct method of imaging neural activity was simulated to determine typical signal sizes. METHODS:An active bidomain finite-element model was used to estimate approximate perturbations in MR phase data as a result of neural tissue activity, and when an external MR electrical impedance tomography imaging curr...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sadleir RJ,Fu F,Chauhan M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study characterizes gains in sensitivity and spectral resolution of proton echo-planar spectroscopic imaging (PEPSI) with increasing magnetic field strength (B(0)). Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) per unit volume and unit time, and intrinsic linewidth (LW) of N-acetyl-aspartate (NAA), creatine (Cr), and choline (Cho)...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Otazo R,Mueller B,Ugurbil K,Wald L,Posse S

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffusion-weighted imaging suffers from motion artifacts and relatively low signal quality due to the long echo times required to permit the diffusion encoding. We investigated the inclusion of a noncylindrical fourth gradient coil, dedicated entirely to diffusion encoding, into the imaging system. Standard three-axis...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Feldman RE,Scholl TJ,Alford JK,Handler WB,Harris CT,Chronik BA

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：:For clinical 31P MR spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) studies, where signal averaging is necessary, some improvement of sensitivity and spatial response function may be achieved by acquiring data over a spherical k-space volume and varying the number of averages acquired in proportion to the desired spatial filter. Eight d...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hugg JW,Maudsley AA,Weiner MW,Matson GB

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetization transfer experiments using an off-resonance irradiation technique were performed on bovine serum albumin solutions by varying the irradiation frequency and the concentration. A transition of the magnetization transfer spectrum from Lorentzian to Gaussian line shape was observed around the critical concen...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Iino M

更新日期：1994-10-01 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:To develop an analytically based algorithm for rapid optimization of the local radiofrequency magnetic (B1+) field intensity for a given radiofrequency power through a transmit array. The analytical nature of the method will yield insight to optimization requirements and provides a valuable reference for numeri...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Carluccio G,Collins CM,Erricolo D

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To enable fast and flexible high-resolution four-dimensional (4D) MRI of periodic thoracic/abdominal motion for motion visualization or motion-corrected imaging. METHODS:We proposed a Cartesian three-dimensional k-space sampling scheme that acquires a random combination of k-space lines in the ky/kz plane. A p...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Küstner T,Würslin C,Schwartz M,Martirosian P,Gatidis S,Brendle C,Seith F,Schick F,Schwenzer NF,Yang B,Schmidt H

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Single-scan two-dimensional MRI has been generally constrained to acquisitions in high quality magnets. This study introduces a methodology, cross-term spatiotemporal encoding (xSPEN), that delivers such images under much poorer external field conditions. METHODS:xSPEN departs from conventional k-space scannin...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zhang Z,Seginer A,Frydman L

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new decoupling sequence, PBAR, is described for broadband heteronuclear decoupling in vivo in humans at 1.5T. The sequence uses non-adiabatic, frequency- and amplitude-modulated inversion pulses designed to minimize decoupling sidebands at low applied gammaB(2) RF field levels and to cover only the narrow range of r...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Barker PB,Golay X,Artemov D,Ouwerkerk R,Smith MA,Shaka AJ

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Continuously moving table (CMT) MRI is a high throughput technique that has multiple applications in whole-body imaging. In this work, CMT MRI based on golden angle (GA, 111.246° azimuthal step) radial sampling is developed at 3 Tesla (T), with the goal of increased flexibility in image reconstruction using arb...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sengupta S,Smith DS,Welch EB

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To test and implement a motion-robust and respiratory-resolved 3D Radial Flow framework that addresses the need for rapid, high resolution imaging in neonatal patients with congenital heart disease. METHODS:A 4-point velocity encoding and 3D radial trajectory with double-golden angle ordering was combined with...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Schrauben EM,Lim JM,Goolaub DS,Marini D,Seed M,Macgowan CK

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel and automated technique is described for removing fMRI image artifacts resulting from motion outside of the imaging field of view. The technique is based on the Stockwell transform (ST), a mathematical operation that provides the frequency content at each time point within a time-varying signal. Using this tec...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Goodyear BG,Zhu H,Brown RA,Mitchell JR

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate and reproducible MRI R2 * relaxometry for tissue iron quantification is important in managing transfusion-dependent patients. MRI data are often acquired using array coils and reconstructed by the root-sum-square algorithm, and as such, measured signals follow the noncentral chi distribution. In this study, t...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Feng Y,He T,Gatehouse PD,Li X,Harith Alam M,Pennell DJ,Chen W,Firmin DN

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For in vivo magnetic resonance imaging at high field (> or =3 T) it is essential to consider the homogeneity of the active B(1) field (B(1)+), particularly if surface coils are used for RF transmission. A new method is presented for highly rapid B(1)+ magnitude mapping. It combines the double angle method with a B(1)-...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Cunningham CH,Pauly JM,Nayak KS

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is demonstrated for detection of magnetization from a selected region within the sensitive volume of a surface coil in a single acquisition. Composite pulses are described which eliminate signals from regions where magnetization is rotated 270 and 450 degrees. There is a loss of 1.3% or less of signal from re...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Karczmar GS,Matson GB,Weiner MW

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human brain white matter exhibits an uncommonly strong dispersion of 1/T1 at high fields. An additional relaxation pathway via the myelin lipids, which are not directly visible to medical NMR due to their fast T2 decay, is proposed. Relaxation dispersion data are successfully analyzed on the basis of this model. ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Fischer HW,Van Haverbeke Y,Schmitz-Feuerhake I,Muller RN

更新日期：1989-03-01 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：:High-signal artifacts produced by cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow can adversely affect fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) imaging of the brain and spinal cord. This study explores the use of a nonslice-selective inversion pulse to eliminate CSF flow artifacts together with a technique called "K-space Reordered...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Herlihy AH,Oatridge A,Curati WL,Puri BK,Bydder GM,Hajnal JV

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a variety of methods have been proposed to provide automated adjustment of shim homogeneity, these methods typically fail or require large numbers of iterations in vivo when applied to regions with poor homogeneity, such as the temporal lobe. These limitations are largely due to 1) the limited accuracy of sin...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hetherington HP,Chu WJ,Gonen O,Pan JW

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focused ultrasound heating of ex vivo bovine kidney and liver was monitored using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to investigate the quantitative relationship between time-dependent temperature elevations and altered contrast in MR images due to thermal coagulation. Proton resonance frequency shift MR thermometry was...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Graham SJ,Chen L,Leitch M,Peters RD,Bronskill MJ,Foster FS,Henkelman RM,Plewes DB

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work presents a method applied to the design of short self-shielded gradient coils of cylindrical geometry. The method uses a hybrid technique that combines the simulated annealing and target field methods to optimize the standard stream functions. The optimized stream functions were parameterized using a few deg...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Tomasi D

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncertainty regarding the intracellular/extracellular distribution of inorganic phosphate (P(i)) in tumors has raised concerns that pH calculated from the tumor P(i) chemical shift may not accurately represent the intracellular pH (pHin). This issue was addressed in subcutaneously transplanted murine radiation induced...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Soto GE,Zhu Z,Evelhoch JL,Ackerman JJ

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recovery of the cerebral cortex after 10 min of cardiac arrest was studied in rat using noninvasive MRI techniques. The apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of brain water was imaged to document reversal of the metabolic impairment. Perfusion-weighted imaging and blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) imaging were perfor...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Schmitz B,Bock C,Hoehn-Berlage M,Kerskens CM,Böttiger BW,Hossmann KA

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00