Kinetic modeling of hyperpolarized (13)C pyruvate metabolism in tumors using a measured arterial input function.

abstract：:The sensitivity of diffusion-weighted MRI was compared to that of T2-weighted MRI following temporary middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCA-O) for 33 min followed by 4 h of reperfusion in rats. Diffusion-weighted spin-echo images using strong gradients (b value of 1413 s/mm2) demonstrated a significant increase in sig...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Mintorovitch J,Moseley ME,Chileuitt L,Shimizu H,Cohen Y,Weinstein PR

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the feasibility of using dissolved hyperpolarized xenon-129 (129 Xe) MRI to study renal physiology in humans at 3 T. METHODS:Using a flexible transceiver RF coil, dynamic and spatially resolved 129 Xe spectroscopy was performed in the abdomen after inhalation of hyperpolarized 129 Xe gas with 3 healt...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Chacon-Caldera J,Maunder A,Rao M,Norquay G,Rodgers OI,Clemence M,Puddu C,Schad LR,Wild JM

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel radio-frequency (RF) pulse design algorithm is presented that generates fast slice-selective excitation pulses that mitigate B+1 inhomogeneity present in the human brain at high field. The method is provided an estimate of the B+1 field in an axial slice of the brain and then optimizes the placement of sinc-li...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zelinski AC,Wald LL,Setsompop K,Alagappan V,Gagoski BA,Goyal VK,Adalsteinsson E

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal control theory has been applied in the past for the design of RF pulses for selective excitation. This was the outcome of having established the controllability of the MR spin system for the selective excitation problem. "Minimum distance" was the main formulation used for the solution. Because of their robust...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Rosenfeld D,Zur Y

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

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：PURPOSE:Undiagnosed dehydration compromises health outcomes across many populations. Existing dehydration diagnostics require invasive bodily fluid sampling or are easily confounded by fluid and electrolyte intake, environment, and physical activity limiting widespread adoption. We present a portable MR sensor designed...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bashyam A,Frangieh CJ,Li M,Cima MJ

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:T2 -weighted sequences are particularly sensitive to the radiofrequency (RF) field inhomogeneity problem at ultra-high-field because of the errors accumulated by the imperfections of the train of refocusing pulses. As parallel transmission (pTx) has proved particularly useful to counteract RF heterogeneities, u...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Gras V,Mauconduit F,Vignaud A,Amadon A,Le Bihan D,Stöcker T,Boulant N

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular-space-occupancy (VASO) MRI exploits the difference between blood and tissue T1 to null blood signal and measure cerebral blood volume changes using the residual tissue signal. VASO imaging is more difficult at higher field because of sensitivity loss due to the convergence of tissue and blood T1 values and in...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hua J,Jones CK,Qin Q,van Zijl PC

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new approach to spin-echo imaging is presented in which the 180 degrees RF pulse refocuses two or more spin-echoes at different positions in the readout period. When simultaneous echo refocusing (SER) is implemented using multiple 180 degrees pulses, an undesirable mixing of stimulated echoes and primary echoes from...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Günther M,Feinberg DA

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a method that fits a multipool model to z-spectra acquired from non-steady state sequences, taking into account the effects of variations in T1 or B1 amplitude and the results estimating the parameters for a four-pool model to describe the z-spectrum from the healthy brain. METHODS:We compared measu...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Geades N,Hunt BAE,Shah SM,Peters A,Mougin OE,Gowland PA

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) enhancements and relaxation times of 31P metabolites in human calf were measured in 12 volunteers (4 men and 8 women) at 1.5 T using a dual tuned four-ring birdcage. The NOE enhancements of inorganic phosphate (Pi), phosphocreatine (PCr), gamma-, alpha-, and beta-nucleoside triphosphate...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Brown TR,Stoyanova R,Greenberg T,Srinivasan R,Murphy-Boesch J

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple images acquired simultaneously from an array of surface coils can be combined to give a composite image with an improved signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and a large field of view. The composite images' SNR can be optimized by taking advantage of noise correlations between coils and phase shifts induced by surface...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hayes CE,Roemer PB

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MRI of myocardial perfusion observed with an extracellular contrast agent has proven valuable for the detection of coronary artery disease. During contrast enhancement transient dark rim artifacts are sometimes visible, complicating diagnosis and quantification. In this work a quantification of the frequency offsets c...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ferreira P,Gatehouse P,Bucciarelli-Ducci C,Wage R,Firmin D

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selective multiple-quantum coherence transfer method has been applied to image polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) distributions in human breast tissues in vivo for cancer detection, with complete suppression of the unwanted lipid and water signals in a single scan. The Cartesian k-space mapping of PUFA in vivo usi...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zhu H,Rubin D,He Q

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Longitudinal water proton relaxation rates of methemoglobin solutions show a strong dependence on temperature and pH. The increase of the relaxation rates with temperature is associated with shortened exchange lifetime of the coordinated water molecule. An accurate measurement of the relaxation rate of methemoglobin s...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Aime S,Fasano M,Paoletti S,Arnelli A,Ascenzi P

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The guidance of minimally invasive procedures may become a very important future application of MRI. The guidance of interventions requires images of the anatomy as well as the information of the position of invasive devices used. This paper introduces continuous radial MRI for the simultaneous acquisition of the anat...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Rasche V,Holz D,Köhler J,Proksa R,Röschmann P

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partially parallel imaging strategies such as SMASH, SENSE, and PILS rely on the sensitivity distribution of phased array RF coils to reduce MRI imaging time. Using an N-element phased array, these techniques allow maximum accelerations, L, such that L < or = N, with acceleration defined as the factor by which scan ti...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bankson JA,Wright SM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To present a time-efficient technique for banding reduction in balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) imaging using phase-cycled simultaneous multislice (SMS) acquisition with CAIPIRINHA (controlled aliasing in parallel imaging results in higher acceleration). THEORY:The proposed technique exploits the ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wang Y,Shao X,Martin T,Moeller S,Yacoub E,Wang DJ

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：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：PURPOSE:High-resolution intravascular (IV) MRI is susceptible to degradation from physiological motion and requires high frame-rates for true endoscopy. Traditional cardiac-gating techniques compromise efficiency by reducing the effective scan rate. Here we test whether compressed sensing (CS) reconstruction and ungate...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hegde SS,Zhang Y,Bottomley PA

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：PURPOSE:To investigate previously unreported effects of signal drift as a result of temporal scanner instability on diffusion MRI data analysis and to propose a method to correct this signal drift. METHODS:We investigated the signal magnitude of non-diffusion-weighted EPI volumes in a series of diffusion-weighted imag...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Vos SB,Tax CM,Luijten PR,Ourselin S,Leemans A,Froeling M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some of the factors involved in the choice of field strength for NMR imaging are examined. The influences of relaxation times and chemical shift upon image quality and signal-to-noise ratio are highlighted, and power deposition is introduced as a significant factor which may limit the flexibility and information avail...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hoult DI,Chen CN,Sank VJ

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relaxivities (R-values) of the gadolinium diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid (Gd(DTPA)2-) ions in a series of skim-milk solutions at 0-40% milk concentrations were measured using NMR spectroscopy. The R-value was found to be approximately linearly proportional to the concentration of the solid component in the m...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zheng S,Xia Y

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A three-axis uniplanar gradient coil was designed and built to provide order-of-magnitude increases in gradient strength of up to 500 mT/m on the x- and y-axes, and 1000 mT/m for the z-axis at 640 A input over a limited FOV ( approximately 16 cm) for superficial regions, compared to conventional gradient coils, with s...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Aksel B,Marinelli L,Collick BD,Von Morze C,Bottomley PA,Hardy CJ

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:Phase-sensitive inversion-recovery (PSIR) imaging may provide enhanced T(1) contrast. However, clinical implementation of PSIR imaging is hindered because image reconstruction with this method often lacks robustness and requires manual intervention, particularly for data acquired in multiple slices and with phased-arr...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ma J

更新日期：2005-04-01 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:We propose a constrained optimization approach for designing parallel transmit (pTx) pulses satisfying all regulatory and hardware limits. We study the trade-offs between excitation accuracy, local and global specific absorption rate (SAR), and maximum and average power for small flip-angle pTx (eight channels)...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Guérin B,Gebhardt M,Cauley S,Adalsteinsson E,Wald LL

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00