Investigation of resolution effects using a specialized diffusion tensor phantom.

abstract：:A demonstration of MR guided thermal surgery involved experiments with imaging of focused ultrasound in an MRI system, measurements of the thermal transients and a thermal analysis of the resulting images. Both the heat distribution and the creation of focused ultrasound lesions in gel phantoms, in vitro bovine muscle...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Cline HE,Schenck JF,Watkins RD,Hynynen K,Jolesz FA

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Magnetic resonance-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound is considered to be a promising treatment for localized cancer in abdominal organs such as liver, pancreas, or kidney. Abdominal motion, anatomical arrangement, and required sustained sonication are the main challenges. METHODS:MR acquisition consiste...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Celicanin Z,Auboiroux V,Bieri O,Petrusca L,Santini F,Viallon M,Scheffler K,Salomir R

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This assesses the potential of measuring lactate in the human brain using three non-editing MRS methods at 7T and compares the accuracy and precision of the methods. METHODS:1 H MRS data were measured in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex using a semi-adiabatic spin-echo full-intensity acquired localized...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Dehghani M,Do KQ,Magistretti P,Xin L

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T2-weighted MRI of edema in acute myocardial infarction (MI) provides a means of differentiating acute and chronic MI, and assessing the area at risk of infarction. Conventional T2-weighted imaging of edema uses a turbo spin-echo (TSE) readout with dark-blood preparation. Clinical applications of dark-blood TSE method...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kellman P,Aletras AH,Mancini C,McVeigh ER,Arai AE

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We investigated global specific absorption rate (SAR) and radiofrequency (RF) power requirements in parallel transmission as the distance between the transmit coils and the sample was increased. METHODS:We calculated ultimate intrinsic SAR (UISAR), which depends on object geometry and electrical properties but...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Deniz CM,Vaidya MV,Sodickson DK,Lattanzi R

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Fourier decomposition (FD) is a noninvasive method for assessing ventilation and perfusion-related information in the lungs. However, the technique has a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in the lung parenchyma. We present an approach to increase the SNR in both morphological and functional images. METHODS:The d...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Corteville DM,Kjïrstad Å,Henzler T,Zöllner FG,Schad LR

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a 32-echo imaging pulse sequence, T2 relaxation decay curves were acquired from five white- and six gray-matter brain structures outlined in 12 normal volunteers. The water contents of white and gray matter were 0.71 (0.01) and 0.83 (0.03) g/ml, respectively. All white-matter structures had significantly higher ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Whittall KP,MacKay AL,Graeb DA,Nugent RA,Li DK,Paty DW

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop and validate a method for acquiring helium-3 ((3) He) and proton ((1) H) three-dimensional (3D) image sets of the human lung with isotropic spatial resolution within a 10-s breath-hold by using compressed sensing (CS) acceleration, and to assess the fidelity of undersampled images compared with fully...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Qing K,Altes TA,Tustison NJ,Feng X,Chen X,Mata JF,Miller GW,de Lange EE,Tobias WA,Cates GD Jr,Brookeman JR,Mugler JP 3rd

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a new steady-state imaging sequence, which simultaneously allows in a single acquisition the formation of two MR images with clearly different contrasts. The contrast of the first image is FISP-like, whereas the second image is strongly T2-weighted. In principle the T2 values in the image can be calculated ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bruder H,Fischer H,Graumann R,Deimling M

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the use of peritoneal dialysis fluid (dialyzate) as a MR contrast agent to visualize the liver structure and peritoneal adhesion in rats at 7 T. Intraperitoneal injection of dialyzate (approximately 0.1 ml/g) yielded excellent and consistent intraperitoneal enhancement that delineated the liver...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Cheung JS,Guo H,Leung JC,Man K,Lai KN,Wu EX

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the advent of breath-hold MR cardiac imaging techniques, the minimization of TR and TE for oblique planes has become a critical issue. The slew rates and maximum currents of gradient amplifiers limit the minimum possible TR and TE by adding dead-periods to the pulse sequences. We propose a method of designing gra...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Atalar E,McVeigh ER

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:A ghost correction strategy for Simultaneous Multi-Slice (SMS) EPI methods that provides improved ghosting artifact reduction compared to conventional methods is presented. Conventional Nyquist ghost correction methods for SMS-EPI rely on navigator data that contain phase errors from all slices in the simultane...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hoge WS,Setsompop K,Polimeni JR

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：:Four-dimensional (4D) flow imaging has been used to study flow patterns and pathophysiology, usually focused on specific thoracic vessels and cardiac chambers. Whole-heart 4D flow at high measurement accuracy covering the entire thoracic cardiovascular system would be desirable to simplify and improve hemodynamic asse...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Uribe S,Beerbaum P,Sørensen TS,Rasmusson A,Razavi R,Schaeffter T

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge about the triglyceride (fat) (1)H spectrum enables quantitative determination of several triglyceride characteristics. This work describes a model-based chemical shift imaging method that separates water and fat signal and provides maps of three triglyceride quantities: fatty acid carbon chain length, unsatu...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Berglund J,Ahlström H,Kullberg J

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a rapid imaging framework for balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) that jointly reconstructs undersampled data (by a factor of R) across multiple coils (D) and multiple acquisitions (N). To devise a multi-acquisition coil compression technique for improved computational efficiency. METHODS:...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Biyik E,Ilicak E,Çukur T

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stereotaxic restraining assembly was designed and developed for simultaneous electrophysiological recordings and functional MRI (fMRI) data acquisition from a conscious rat. The design of the nonmagnetic stereotaxic apparatus facilitated the restraining of head and body of the unanesthetized conscious animal during ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Khubchandani M,Mallick HN,Jagannathan NR,Mohan Kumar V

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To directly compare in vivo versus postmortem second-order motion-compensated spin-echo diffusion tensor imaging of the porcine heart. METHODS:Second-order motion-compensated spin-echo cardiac diffusion tensor imaging was performed during systolic contraction in vivo and repeated upon cardiac arrest by bariumc...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Stoeck CT,von Deuster C,Fleischmann T,Lipiski M,Cesarovic N,Kozerke S

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Application of phase rotation to the STRESS (=STEAM+PRESS) localization scheme, to shorten echo time, minimize J-coupling dephasing and estimate B1+ inhomogeneity. STRESS (=STEAM + PRESS) simultaneously refocuses and acquires the double spin echo (SE123 ) and stimulated echo (STE- ) pathways, combining PRESS-li...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Volovyk O,Tal A

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Magnetically labeled cells and tissue iron deposits provide qualitative means to detect and monitor cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases with magnetic resonance imaging. However, to quantitatively examine the extent of pathological micromorphological changes, detailed knowledge about microstructural para...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kurz FT,Kampf T,Heiland S,Bendszus M,Schlemmer HP,Ziener CH

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel multislice B₁-mapping method dubbed dual refocusing echo acquisition mode is proposed, able to cover the whole transmit coil volume in only one second, which is more than an order of magnitude faster than established approaches. The dual refocusing echo acquisition mode technique employs a stimulated echo acqu...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Nehrke K,Börnert P

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new model of compartmentalized relaxation--that which occurs for spins (protons) exchanging between compartments of different relaxation rates--is presented. This model generalizes previous ones by allowing spatially dependent relaxation within compartments. Solutions for the diffusion-Bloch equations are found via ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Barsky D,Pütz B,Schulten K

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The remarkable success of magnetic resonance imaging of adult brain relates to the unusually large ratio of the longitudinal relaxation rates 1/T1 of white and gray matter, approximately 2:1 at physiological temperature and traditional imaging fields. Several investigators have conjectured that myelin is the source of...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Koenig SH,Brown RD 3rd,Spiller M,Lundbom N

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the use of image registration for correcting respiratory motion in free breathing lung T1 mapping acquisition in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). THEORY AND METHODS:The method presented used image registration to synthetic images during postprocessing to remove respiratory motion. S...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Saunders LC,Eaden JA,Bianchi SM,Swift AJ,Wild JM

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To propose an explicit Balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) signal model that predicts eddy current-induced steady-state disruptions and to provide a prospective, practical, and general eddy current compensation method. THEORY AND METHODS:Gradient impulse response functions (GIRF) were used to simulat...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bruijnen T,Stemkens B,van den Berg CAT,Tijssen RHN

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The absolute partial pressure of oxygen (pO(2)) in the mammary gland pad and femoral muscle of female mice was measured using EPR oximetry at 700 MHz. A small quantity of lithium phthalocyanine (LiPc) crystals was implanted in both mammary and femoral muscle tissue of female C3H mice. Subsequent EPR measurements were ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Matsumoto A,Matsumoto S,Sowers AL,Koscielniak JW,Trigg NJ,Kuppusamy P,Mitchell JB,Subramanian S,Krishna MC,Matsumoto K

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Head motion is a fundamental problem in functional magnetic resonance imaging and is often a limiting factor in its clinical implementation. This work presents a rigid-body motion correction strategy for echo-planar imaging sequences that uses micro radiofrequency coil "active markers" for real-time, slice-by-slice pr...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ooi MB,Krueger S,Muraskin J,Thomas WJ,Brown TR

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis was tested that the intravoxel distribution of water diffusion rates, as measured with a stretched-exponential model of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), is a marker of brain tumor invasion. Eight rats underwent intracerebral inoculation of C6 glioma cells. In three rats, cells were labeled with a fluor...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bennett KM,Hyde JS,Rand SD,Bennett R,Krouwer HG,Rebro KJ,Schmainda KM

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the heating induced by (pseudo)-continuous arterial spin labeling ((p)CASL) sequences in vivo at 9.4T and to evaluate the benefit of a dedicated labeling coil. METHODS:Temperature was measured continuously in the brain, neck, and rectum of 9 rats with fiber-optic temperature probes while running...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hirschler L,Collomb N,Voiron J,Köhler S,Barbier EL,Warnking JM

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Subendocardial dark-rim artifacts (DRAs) remain a major concern in first-pass perfusion (FPP) myocardial MRI and may lower the diagnostic accuracy for detection of ischemia. A major source of DRAs is the "Gibbs ringing" effect. We propose an optimized radial acquisition strategy aimed at eliminating ringing-ind...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sharif B,Dharmakumar R,LaBounty T,Arsanjani R,Shufelt C,Thomson L,Merz CN,Berman DS,Li D

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00