A 3 T sodium and proton composite array breast coil.

abstract：:The use of the minimum stored energy current density map-based methodology of designing closed-bore symmetric superconducting magnets was described recently. The technique is further developed to cater for the design of interventional-type MRI systems, and in particular open symmetric magnets of the double-doughnut co...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Tieng QM,Vegh V,Brereton IM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Applications of fMRI in functional brain imaging are mainly confined to single subject designs, prohibiting the assessment of subject or group by condition interactions (i.e., differential activations) or areas of conjoint activation. In this paper a framework for fMRI group designs, using statistical parametric mappi...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Büchel C,Turner R,Friston K

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique using hyperpolarized (HP) 3He to image the small airways of the lung by using moderate flip angles and a short scanning period during early inspiration is demonstrated. Flip angles (alpha) ranging from 10-90 degrees were used in guinea pig experiments with scanning during the entire inspiration period. A s...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Chen XJ,Chawla MS,Hedlund LW,Möller HE,MacFall JR,Johnson GA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the feasibility of an improved motion and flow robust methodology for imaging the pulmonary vasculature using non-contrast-enhanced, free-breathing, golden-angle radial MRI. METHODS:Healthy volunteers (n = 10, age 46 ± 11 years, 50% female) and patients (n = 2, ages 27 and 84, both female) were ima...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Fyrdahl A,Vargas Paris R,Nyrén S,Holst K,Ugander M,Lindholm P,Sigfridsson A

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To demonstrate feasibility of exploiting the spatial distribution of off-resonance surrounding metallic implants for accelerating multispectral imaging techniques. THEORY AND METHODS:Multispectral imaging (MSI) techniques perform time-consuming independent three-dimensional acquisitions with varying radio freq...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Smith MR,Artz NS,Koch KM,Samsonov A,Reeder SB

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Image-guided prostate biopsies are routinely acquired in the diagnosis and treatment monitoring of prostate cancer, yielding useful tissue for identifying metabolic biomarkers and therapeutic targets. We developed an optimized biopsy tissue culture protocol in combination with [1,6-13 C2 ]glucose labeling and q...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bancroft Brown J,Sriram R,VanCriekinge M,Delos Santos R,Sun J,Delos Santos J,Tabatabai ZL,Shinohara K,Nguyen H,Peehl DM,Kurhanewicz J

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this project was to construct a physical brain phantom for MRI, mimicking structure and T1 relaxation properties of white matter (WM) and gray matter (GM). METHODS:The phantom design comprised 2 compartments, 1 resembling the WM and 1 resembling the GM. Their T1 relaxation times, as assessed usi...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Altermatt A,Santini F,Deligianni X,Magon S,Sprenger T,Kappos L,Cattin P,Wuerfel J,Gaetano L

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo measurements of gadodiamide (Gd-DTPA-BMA) T(1) relaxivity were performed at 4.7 T in injured and normal rat brains. Cerebral lesions were induced in nine rats by a localized freezing method. T(1) maps of the lesions were generated before and after injection of Gd-DTPA-BMA (0.1-0.6 mmol/kg). Samples of normal a...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Pickup S,Wood AK,Kundel HL

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:A multi-turn transmit surface coil design was presented to improve B1 efficiency when used with current source amplification. METHODS:Three different coil designs driven by an on-coil current-mode class-D amplifier with current envelope feedback were tested on the benchtop and through imaging in a 1.5 T scanne...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Gudino N,Griswold MA

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：:A method is described for the correction of geometric distortions occurring in echo planar images. The geometric distortions are caused in large part by static magnetic field inhomogeneities, leading to pixel shifts, particularly in the phase encode direction. By characterizing the field inhomogeneities from a field m...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Jezzard P,Balaban RS

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional T2-selective proton imaging of human head has been performed at 10 MHz employing Carr-Purcell-Gill-Meiboom pulse trains with echo separation of 6 and 12 msec. Using the information of 36 spin echoes and applying a recovery time of 2 sec the magnetization decay has been traced. The multi-exponential T2 ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Gersonde K,Felsberg L,Tolxdorff T,Ratzel D,Ströbel B

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical spreading depression (CSD) was visualized using manganese-enhanced MRI (MEMRI) following topical application of KCl to the exposed rat cortex. MEMRI signal increase in the ipsilateral cortex relative to the contralateral control region was 60 +/- 30% following two KCl applications. MEMRI signal increase for a...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Henning EC,Meng X,Fisher M,Sotak CH

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fucose is believed to be a marker for cancer that may be detectable by the 2D proton NMR (COSY) of human plasma. However, the COSY technique is time consuming and prone to error. These problems may be alleviated by using the SUPERCOSY pulse sequence; this technique shows that there are many other cross peaks in the re...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Phillips PS,Herring FG

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An approach to efficiently measure three-dimensional velocity vector fields and turbulent kinetic energy of blood flow is presented. Multipoint phase-contrast imaging is used in combination with Bayesian analysis to map both mean and fluctuating velocities over a large dynamic range and for practically relevant signal...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Binter C,Knobloch V,Manka R,Sigfridsson A,Kozerke S

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Banding artifacts in images acquired by balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) remain a challenge in MRI as they considerably reduce image quality, and diagnostic value deteriorates accordingly. As the steady-state tolerates small shifts in frequency, it is possible to acquire frequency-modulated bSSFP. ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Slawig A,Wech T,Ratz V,Tran-Gia J,Neubauer H,Bley T,Köstler H

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fitting a model to an experimental spectrum is a difficult nonlinear estimation problem. The solution presented here is to start an iterative search procedure sufficiently close to the optimal model parameter set. This is achieved by providing tissue-dependent a priori peak information and by a novel correlation metho...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Burger C,McKinnon G,Buchli R,Boesiger P

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wavelet packet analysis is a mathematical transformation that can be used to post-process images, for example, to remove image noise ("denoising"). At a very low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR <5), standard magnitude magnetic resonance images have skewed Rician noise statistics that degrade denoising performance. Since th...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wood JC,Johnson KM

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parallel transmission has emerged as an efficient means for implementing multidimensional spatially selective radiofrequency excitation pulses. To date, most theoretical and experimental work on parallel transmission radiofrequency (RF) pulse design is based on the small-tip-angle approximation to the Bloch equation. ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zheng H,Zhao T,Qian Y,Ibrahim TS,Boada FE

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To explore the effects of high permittivity dielectric pads on the transmit and receive characteristics of a 3 Tesla body coil centered at the thighs, and their implications on image uniformity in receive array applications. THEORY AND METHODS:Transmit and receive profiles of the body coil with and without die...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Brink WM,Versluis MJ,Peeters JM,Börnert P,Webb AG

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Real-time assessment of ventricular volumes requires high acceleration factors. Residual convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown potential for removing artifacts caused by data undersampling. In this study, we investigated the ability of CNNs to reconstruct highly accelerated radial real-time data in pat...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hauptmann A,Arridge S,Lucka F,Muthurangu V,Steeden JA

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noninvasive investigation of aldose reductase activities in rat testis was performed using 3-fluoro-3-deoxy-D-glucose (3-FDG) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy/imaging. Quantitative determination of testis aldose reductase activities, expressed as the sorbitol index, showed a value similar to that of b...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Nakada T,Kwee IL

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful radiofrequency (RF) thermal ablation was performed on VX2 tumors implanted in 23 rabbit livers under magnetic resonance (MR) guidance using a C-arm-shaped low-field 0.2 T system. RF application and immediate postprocedure MRI of all animals was performed [T2-weighted, turbo short tau inversion recovery (STI...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Merkle EM,Boll DT,Boaz T,Duerk JL,Chung YC,Jacobs GH,Varnes ME,Lewin JS

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specialized receiver coils having a small sensitive region can provide an improvement in SNR for MR imaging and spectroscopy, at the expense of limiting the usable field of view. This work presents a technique for designing coil arrays that allows the size and location of the sensitive region to be selected remotely. ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wright SM,Magin RL,Kelton JR

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noninvasive molecular imaging of angiogenesis could play a critical role in the clinical management of peripheral vascular disease patients. The alpha(nu)beta(3)-integrin, a well-established biomarker of neovascular proliferation, is an ideal target for molecular imaging of angiogenesis. This study investigates whethe...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Winter PM,Caruthers SD,Allen JS,Cai K,Williams TA,Lanza GM,Wickline SA

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To characterize the fundamental limits of MRI near metallic implants on RF excitation, frequency encoding, and chemical shift-encoding water-fat separation. METHODS:Multicomponent three-dimensional (3D) digital models of a total hip and a total knee replacement were used to construct material-specific suscepti...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Smith MR,Artz NS,Wiens C,Hernando D,Reeder SB

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design of a piezoelectric-controlled trimmer capacitor and its use as a tuning element of an MRI surface coil at 63.8 MHz are described. It is found that image quality does not depend strongly on match of the coil to the transmission line but that tuning can be a significant factor. The work is intended to lead ev...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hyde JS,Rilling RJ,Jesmanowicz A,Kneeland JB

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the potential of in vivo 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) to characterize musculoskeletal tumors and to determine preoperative levels of histological necrosis, which is an important clinical indicator of patient response. Pretherapy MRS was performed on 28 patients with large musculosk...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Redmond OM,Bell E,Stack JP,Dervan PA,Carney DN,Hurson B,Ennis JT

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To optimize radiofrequency (RF) pulses for the selective excitation of dissolved phase (129)Xe that take into account the very short T2*, while simultaneously, minimally exciting the much larger gas signal. METHODS:Numerical simulations of Shinnar le-Roux pulses and binomial coefficient composite-element pulse...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Leung G,Norquay G,Schulte RF,Wild JM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop an accelerated, robust, and accurate diffusion MRI acquisition and reconstruction technique for submillimeter whole human brain in vivo scan on a clinical scanner. METHODS:We extend the ultra-high resolution diffusion MRI acquisition technique, gSlider, by allowing undersampling in q-space and radio...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ramos-Llordén G,Ning L,Liao C,Mukhometzianov R,Michailovich O,Setsompop K,Rathi Y

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00