Implementation of vascular-space-occupancy MRI at 7T.

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop methods for characterizing materials used in screen-printed MRI coils and improve signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) with new lower-loss materials. METHODS:An experimental apparatus was created to characterize dielectric properties of plastic substrates used in receive coils. Coils were fabricated by scree...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Corea JR,Lechene PB,Lustig M,Arias AC

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saline solutions of manganese ions (Mn2+) were used as articular contrast agents in magnetic resonance microscopy (9.4 T) of cartilage of chicken femoral condyles and pig temporomandibular joints. The diffusion of Mn2+ from the articular surface into the cartilage matrix led to a strong contrast enhancement in the car...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kusaka Y,Gründer W,Rumpel H,Dannhauer KH,Gersonde K

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In diffusion MRI, the actual b-value played out on the scanner may deviate from the nominal value due to magnetic field imperfections. A simple image-based correction method for this problem is presented. METHODS:The apparent diffusion constant (ADC) of a water phantom was measured voxel-wise along 64 diffusio...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lee Y,Kettinger AO,Wilm BJ,Deichmann R,Weiskopf N,Lambert C,Pruessmann KP,Nagy Z

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop and evaluate a method for volumetric contrast-enhanced MRI of the liver, with high spatial and temporal resolutions, for combined dynamic imaging and MR angiography (MRA) using a single injection of contrast agent. METHODS:An interleaved variable density (IVD) undersampling pattern was implemented i...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Salmani Rahimi M,Korosec FR,Wang K,Holmes JH,Motosugi U,Bannas P,Reeder SB

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetization transfer effects represent a major source of contrast in multislice turbo spin echo sequences (TSE)/fast spin echo sequences. Generally, low refocusing flip angles have become common in such MRI sequences, especially to mitigate specific absorption rate problems. Since the strength of magnetization trans...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Weigel M,Helms G,Hennig J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:A new approach to design parallel transmit (pTx) head arrays is proposed that integrates transmit radiofrequency pulse designs with electromagnetic modeling of array coil elements. THEORY AND METHODS:An approach to design pTx head arrays is proposed that finds optimal groupings of a large number of coils into ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Cao Z,Yan X,Gore JC,Grissom WA

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Longitudinal and transverse relaxation rates for the 11B resonances in sodium borocaptate (BSH) at varying concentrations were measured in undiluted horse serum in a 4.7 Tesla field. The results could be fit by a model that assumes fast exchange of the BSH molecule between a free and a bound state, using values of 0.7...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bendel P,Frantz A,Zilberstein J,Kabalka GW,Salomon Y

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An implementation is reported of an imaging method to obtain MUltiple Resolutions along Phase-encode and Slice-select dimensions (MURPS), which enables dynamic imaging of focal changes using a graded, multiresolution approach. MURPS allows one to trade spatial resolution in part of the volume for improved temporal res...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Panych LP,Zhao L,Jolesz FA,Mulkern RV

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents an improved data reconstruction method for generalized autocalibrating partially parallel acquisitions (GRAPPA) using multicolumn multiline interpolation (MCMLI). Both nearest acquired line (ky) neighboring points and column (kx) neighboring points from all components of an array coil were used to ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wang Z,Wang J,Detre JA

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：PURPOSE:To propose a phase error correction scheme for monopolar time-interleaved multi-echo gradient echo water-fat imaging that allows accurate and robust complex-based quantification of the proton density fat fraction (PDFF). METHODS:A three-step phase correction scheme is proposed to address a) a phase term induce...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ruschke S,Eggers H,Kooijman H,Diefenbach MN,Baum T,Haase A,Rummeny EJ,Hu HH,Karampinos DC

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new fully automatic algorithm for the segmentation of the brain and total intracranial cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from T(1)-weighted volume MRI scans of the head, called Exbrain v.2, is described. The algorithm was developed in the context of serial intracranial volumetry. A brain mask obtained using a previous versi...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lemieux L,Hammers A,Mackinnon T,Liu RS

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Amide-proton transfer (APT) and amine-water proton exchange (APEX) MRI can be viable to map pH-decreasing ischemic regions. However, their exact contributions are unclear. METHODS:We measured APEX- and APT-weighted magnetization transfer ratio asymmetry (denoted as APEXw and APTw), apparent diffusion coefficie...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zong X,Wang P,Kim SG,Jin T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to examine the usefulness of histogram analysis combined with vessel size index (VSI) magnetic resonance imaging for the specific characterization of brain tumor microvasculature in a panel of six volume-matched glioma xenografts. Using a simple descriptive histogram analysis, significant ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Just N

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison between contrast and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), as obtained by both maximum entropy (ME) and 2DFT reconstruction, is reported for NMR images. Our results show that in the ME elaboration the contrast and SNR are generally increased with respect to the 2DFT elaboration. The magnitude of such an increase d...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： De Simone BC,De Luca F,Maraviglia B

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is suggested whereby the shifted extracellular triple quantum filtered 23Na signal of an isolated organ is completely eliminated. The method is based on the long relaxation time of the triple quantum coherence and on its fast evolution rate. When the carrier frequency is set on top of the intracellular sodium...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Navon G

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To establish a cardiac signal from scattering matrix or scattering coefficient measurements made on a 7T 8-channel parallel transmit (pTx) system, and to evaluate its use for cardiac gating. METHODS:Measurements of the scattering matrix and scattering coefficients were acquired using a monitoring pulse sequenc...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Jaeschke SHF,Robson MD,Hess AT

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of an in-plane B(1) sensitivity encoding (SENSE) technique with a simultaneous multiple-slice B(0) field step technique (multiple-acquisition micro B(0) array (MAMBA)) has produced high scan time reduction factors (R < or = 8). In this study, two slices were acquired simultaneously in combination with ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Paley MN,Lee KJ,Wild JM,Fichele S,Whitby EH,Wilkinson ID,Van Beek EJ,Griffiths PD

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multiexponential behavior of the decay curves obtained in vitro by a Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) sequence from spleens and kidneys of mice is analyzed. The mice were inoculated with the acute lymphocytic P388 leukemic cells and treated with the anticancer drug cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II), cis-Pt. Kidneys...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： François A,Van Gerven L,Atassi G,Eisendrath H,Gielen M,Willem R

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal cord (SC) motion is thought to be the dominant source of error in current diffusion and spinal functional MRI (fMRI) methods. However, until now, such motion has not been well characterized in three dimensions. While previous studies have predominantly examined motion in the superior/inferior (S/I) direction, t...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Figley CR,Stroman PW

更新日期：2007-07-01 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 robust postprocessing method to detect regions of magnetic field change is presented. High resolution gradient echo data is acquired to create a complex baseline image. From this image, two low resolution images are obtained by applying a low pass filter on the magnitude image and the complex image, respectively. Su...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lai S,Reichenbach JR,Haacke EM

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this work was to develop and evaluate a robust water-fat separation method for T1-weighted symmetric two-point Dixon data. THEORY AND METHODS:A method for water-fat separation by phase unwrapping of the opposite-phase images by phase-sensitive reconstruction (PSR) is introduced. PSR consists of ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Romu T,Dahlström N,Leinhard OD,Borga M

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop and evaluate a neural network-based method for Gibbs artifact and noise removal. METHODS:A convolutional neural network (CNN) was designed for artifact removal in diffusion-weighted imaging data. Two implementations were considered: one for magnitude images and one for complex images. Both models we...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Muckley MJ,Ades-Aron B,Papaioannou A,Lemberskiy G,Solomon E,Lui YW,Sodickson DK,Fieremans E,Novikov DS,Knoll F

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperpolarized noble gas ((3)He and (129)Xe) apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) measurements have shown remarkable sensitivity to microstructural (i.e., alveolar) changes in the lung, particularly emphysema. The ADC of hyperpolarized noble gases depends strongly on the diffusion time (Δ), and (3)He ADC has been show...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Boudreau M,Xu X,Santyr GE

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:The orientation dependence of the free induction decay (FID) of 1H NMR water signal in ex vivo bovine digital flexor tendon at the native level of hydration is reported. Residual dipolar coupling due to the overall tissue anisotropy produces a 6:1 change in the signal intensity as an angle between the long axis of a s...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Krasnosselskaia LV,Fullerton GD,Dodd SJ,Cameron IL

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI data in vertebral bone marrow (vBM) are currently analyzed with descriptive indices. The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a quantitative approach, considering the tissue composition of vBM. Therefore, a measurement of the water fraction, f(wat), and the precontrast relaxa...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Biffar A,Sourbron S,Schmidt G,Ingrisch M,Dietrich O,Reiser MF,Baur-Melnyk A

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flow-independent angiography is a non-contrast-enhanced technique that can generate vessel contrast even with reduced blood flow in the lower extremities. A method is presented for producing these angiograms with magnetization-prepared balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP). Because bSSFP yields bright fat sign...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Cukur T,Lee JH,Bangerter NK,Hargreaves BA,Nishimura DG

更新日期：2009-06-01 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