A fast, analytically based method to optimize local transmit efficiency for a transmit array.

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare fitting methods and sampling strategies, including the implementation of an optimized b-value selection for improved estimation of intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) parameters in breast cancer. METHODS:Fourteen patients (age, 48.4 ± 14.27 years) with cancerous lesions underwent 3 Tesla breast MRI ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Cho GY,Moy L,Zhang JL,Baete S,Lattanzi R,Moccaldi M,Babb JS,Kim S,Sodickson DK,Sigmund EE

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of T1 rho an an alternative contrast parameter in high-field magnetic resonance histology (MRH) has been investigated. Spectroscopic measurements of T1 rho were performed on 5.75% agar and 1.0 mM MnCI2 phantoms at 9.4 T to validate the accuracy of the imaging measurements. Image studies were performed ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Engelhardt RT,Johnson GA

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A general analytical framework is presented for the design of birdcage radiofrequency resonators on cylindrical formers having arbitrary cross-sectional shape. The primary objective of such shapes would be to improve the sensitivity of the NMR experiment to noncircular regions of the human anatomy while maintaining fi...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： De Zanche N,Yahya A,Vermeulen FE,Allen PS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lactate editing sequence based on the use of spin-locking pulses with surface coils is described. The sequence retains more than 90% of the available lactate magnetization and suppresses at least 95% of the lipid signal in a single scan and ca. 99.5% after a simple two step cycle. The technique allows simultaneous o...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bourgeois D,Kozlowski P

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：:A novel iterative k-space data-driven technique, namely parallel reconstruction using null operations (PRUNO), is presented for parallel imaging reconstruction. In PRUNO, both data calibration and image reconstruction are formulated into linear algebra problems based on a generalized system model. An optimal data cali...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zhang J,Liu C,Moseley ME

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aims of this study were (i) to establish a robust and fast method to quantify hepatocellular phosphorus compounds in molar concentration on a 3T clinical scanner, (ii) to evaluate its reproducibility, and (iii) to test its feasibility for a use in large cohort studies. METHOD:Proton-decoupled (31) P magnet...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Laufs A,Livingstone R,Nowotny B,Nowotny P,Wickrath F,Giani G,Bunke J,Roden M,Hwang JH

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) were labeled with Ferucarbotran by simple incubation and cultured for up to 14 d. Iron content was determined by spectrometry and the intracellular localization of the contrast agent uptake was studied by electron and confocal microscopy. At various time points after labeling, rang...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Henning TD,Wendland MF,Golovko D,Sutton EJ,Sennino B,Malek F,Bauer JS,McDonald DM,Daldrup-Link H

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI using gadolinium or manganese provides unique characterization of myocardium and its pathology. In this study, an electrocardiography (ECG) triggered saturation recovery Look-Locker method was developed and validated for fast cardiac T(1) mapping in small animal models. By sampling the in...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Li W,Griswold M,Yu X

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MR images acquired by using an arterial spin-labeling technique showed spatial and temporal variations of perfusion in the skeletal muscle of exercising humans. Perfusion measurements made during plantar flexion exercise in normal volunteers were consistent with those obtained by traditional techniques reported in the...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Frank LR,Wong EC,Haseler LJ,Buxton RB

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In this study, an iterative k-t principal component analysis (PCA) algorithm with nonrigid frame-to-frame motion correction is proposed for dynamic contrast-enhanced three-dimensional perfusion imaging. METHODS:An iterative k-t PCA algorithm was implemented with regularization using training data corrected for...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Schmidt JF,Wissmann L,Manka R,Kozerke S

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduction of image-to-image signal fluctuations and imaging artifacts is important for fMRI studies. The imaging artifacts caused by respiration, cardiac pulsation, and gross head motion and the suppression of these artifacts have been studied for many years. However, the artifacts caused by eye movement and their eff...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Chen W,Zhu XH

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To present and validate a new method that formalizes a direct link between k-space and wavelet domains to apply separate undersampling and reconstruction for high- and low-spatial-frequency k-space data. THEORY AND METHODS:High- and low-spatial-frequency regions are defined in k-space based on the separation o...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sung K,Hargreaves BA

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amide proton transfer imaging, a specific form of chemical exchange saturation transfer imaging, has previously been applied to studies of acute ischemic acidosis, stroke, and cancer. However, interpreting the resulting contrast is complicated by its dependence on the exchange rate between amides and water, the amide ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zu Z,Janve VA,Li K,Does MD,Gore JC,Gochberg DF

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallic implants, such as stents, have long been a concern in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In addition to safety issues, they are commonly associated with image artifacts. The mechanisms of radiofrequency- (RF) and susceptibility-induced artifacts have been thoroughly investigated. However, gradient-switching-in...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Shenhav A,Azhari H

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：:For patients with impaired breath-hold capacity and/or arrhythmias, real-time cine MRI may be more clinically useful than breath-hold cine MRI. However, commercially available real-time cine MRI methods using parallel imaging typically yield relatively poor spatio-temporal resolution due to their low image acquisition...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Feng L,Srichai MB,Lim RP,Harrison A,King W,Adluru G,Dibella EV,Sodickson DK,Otazo R,Kim D

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radial MRI sequences are frequently used to obtain images with reduced sensitivity to motion. To decrease imaging time, multiple spin-echo acquisitions can be incorporated into radial sequences. In this case, different radial lines of Fourier data have different TE times and the resulting images can contain streaking ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Theilmann RJ,Gmitro AF,Altbach MI,Trouard TP

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was the simulation and measurement of balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) slice profiles for a detailed analysis of the influence of off-resonance effects on slice profile shape and bSSFP signal intensity. Due to the frequency response function of the bSSFP sequence, measurements th...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Staehle F,Leupold J,Hennig J,Markl M

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Over the last two decades, extended criteria have promoted an increased number of donor livers available for liver transplantation. But posttransplant graft loss is still a major concern. Macrovesicular hepatic steatosis (MHS) is recognized as the most significant prognostic histologic parameter in predicting p...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Chen G,Jiang J,Wang X,Yang M,Xie Y,Guo H,Tang H,Zhou L,Hu D,Kamel IR,Chen Z,Li Z

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop and validate a method for choosing the optimal two-dimensional CAIPIRINHA kernel for subtraction contrast-enhanced MR angiography (CE-MRA) and estimate the degree of image quality improvement versus that of some reference acceleration parameter set at R ≥ 8. METHODS:A metric based on patient-specifi...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Weavers PT,Borisch EA,Riederer SJ

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In radiotherapy, target tissues are defined best on MR images due to their superior soft tissue contrast. Computed tomography imaging is geometrically accurate and it is needed for dose calculation and generation of reference images for treatment localization. Co-registration errors between MR and computed tomography ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kapanen M,Collan J,Beule A,Seppälä T,Saarilahti K,Tenhunen M

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Correlation imaging is a previously developed high-speed MRI framework that converts parallel imaging reconstruction into the estimate of correlation functions. The presented work aims to demonstrate this framework can provide a speed gain over parallel imaging by estimating k-space variant correlation function...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Li Y,Edalati M,Du X,Wang H,Cao JJ

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The estrogen receptor (ER) is a major prognostic biomarker of breast cancer, currently determined in surgical specimens by immunohistochemistry. Two new ER-targeted probes, pyridine-tetra-acetate-Gd chelate (PTA-Gd) conjugated either to 17β-estradiol (EPTA-Gd) or to tamoxifen (TPTA-Gd), were explored as contrast agent...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Pais A,Biton IE,Margalit R,Degani H

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current MRI methods for myocardial motion and strain quantification have limited resolution because of Fourier space spectral peak interference. Methods have been proposed to remove this interference in order to improve resolution; however, these methods are clinically impractical due to the prolonged imaging times. I...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Agarwal HK,Prince JL,Abd-Elmoniem KZ

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a method for acquiring whole-heart 3D image-based navigators (iNAVs) with isotropic resolution for tracking and correction of localized motion in coronary magnetic resonance angiography (CMRA). METHODS:To monitor motion in all regions of the heart during a free-breathing scan, a variable-density con...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Addy NO,Ingle RR,Luo J,Baron CA,Yang PC,Hu BS,Nishimura DG

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop and validate a regularization approach of optimizing B1 insensitivity of the quantitative magnetization transfer (qMT) pool-size ratio (F). METHODS:An expression describing the impact of B1 inaccuracies on qMT fitting parameters was derived using a sensitivity analysis. To simultaneously optimize fo...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Boudreau M,Pike GB

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the use of variable flip angle refocusing pulse trains in single-shot three-dimensional gradient and spin-echo (3D-GRASE) to reduce blurring and increase the spatial coverage for high spatial resolution T2 -weighted functional MRI at 7 Tesla. METHODS:Variable flip angle refocusing schemes in 3D-GRA...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kemper VG,De Martino F,Yacoub E,Goebel R

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of the 13C label arising from [U-13C]succinate in rabbit renal proximal convoluted tubular (PCT) cells, incubated with [U-13C]succinate, was investigated by 13C NMR spectroscopy of the perchloric acid extracts of the cell pellets. The 13C label of [U-13C]succinate was predominantly metabolized into glutamate,...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Jans AW,Willem R

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00