Nonuniform and multidimensional Shinnar-Le Roux RF pulse design method.

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a postprocessing algorithm that corrects geometric distortions due to spatial variations of the static magnetic field amplitude, B0 , and effects from relaxation during signal acquisition in EPI. THEORY AND METHODS:An analytic, complex point-spread function is deduced for k-space trajectories of EPI...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Patzig F,Mildner T,Schlumm T,Müller R,Möller HE

更新日期：2020-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:An intermolecular double-quantum coherence (iDQC) imaging technique was used to study auditory activation in the human brain at 1.5T with a dual temporal lobe surface phased array coil and a quadrature head coil. Preliminary results demonstrate that it is feasible to obtain auditory activation maps using iDQC imaging ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zhong J,Kwok E,Chen Z

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In active catheter tracking, small RF coils are attached to the catheter for localization. For interactive catheter steering at vessel branchings, it is necessary to visualize not only a single point near the catheter tip but also the entire shape and orientation of the catheter's distal end. Therefore, a 35-mm-long t...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zuehlsdorff S,Umathum R,Volz S,Hallscheidt P,Fink C,Semmler W,Bock M

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assuming that the SSFP magnetization response maintains a steady state which is periodic in the presence of diffusion, we can solve for the diffusion effect in such sequences. Formulating a Fourier series decomposition solution to the Bloch-Torrey equation and imposing the steady-state condition, analytical expression...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Carney CE,Wong ST,Patz S

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A methodology is presented for estimating T(1) using a two-point technique with a standard multislice gradient echo sequence. The method explicitly corrects for the shape of the RF pulse and for spatial variations in transmitted RF field intensity. Including these factors in the calculation of T(1) gives a substantial...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Parker GJ,Barker GJ,Tofts PS

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional MRI studies to date have been generally performed using the blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) contrast mechanism. Recently, it has been proposed that dynamic change in the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), measured using intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) weighting, can be used as a robust funct...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Harshbarger TB,Song AW

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton-electron double-resonance imaging (PEDRI) was used to assess renal function by monitoring the flow of the exogenous nitroxide free radical proxyl carboxylic acid (PCA) through normal and injured kidneys in the living rat. Kidney damage was induced by treatment with 2-bromoethylamine (BEA), which provides a well...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Seimenis I,Foster MA,Lurie DJ,Hutchison JM,Whiting PH,Payne S

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of myocardial and brain perfusion when using exogenous contrast agents (CAs) such as gadolinium-DTPA (Gd-DTPA) and MRI is affected by the diffusion of water between compartments. This water exchange may have an impact on signal enhancement, or, equivalently, on the longitudinal relaxation rate, and could t...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Larsson HB,Rosenbaum S,Fritz-Hansen T

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Generating flow-specific images (arteriograms, venograms) with optimal signal-to-noise ratios for time-resolved MR angiography is a conditional maximum problem, and its solutions are generalized matched filters. We have investigated six matched filters, corresponding to all possible combinations of three flow suppress...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wang Y,Weber DM,Korosec FR,Mistretta CA,Grist TM,Swan JS,Turski PA

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a novel technique for voxel-based mapping of lung microstructural parameters using hyperpolarized 129 Xe dissolved-phase MR imaging during saturation recovery. METHODS:A pulse sequence using a highly undersampled stack-of-stars trajectory was developed, and low-rank plus sparse matrix decomposition ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kern AL,Gutberlet M,Voskrebenzev A,Klimeš F,Rotärmel A,Wacker F,Hohlfeld JM,Vogel-Claussen J

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a novel, simultaneous multislice reconstruction method that exploits Hankel subspace learning (SMS-HSL) for aliasing separation in the slice direction. METHODS:An SMS signal model with the Hankel-structured matrix was proposed. To efficiently suppress interslice leakage artifacts from a signal subsp...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Park S,Park J

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gradient technique to measure electron paramagnetic resonance spectra simultaneously at several different locations is described. The technique is based on the use of point probes containing paramagnetic centers. The value of the magnetic field gradient is chosen to be sufficient to separate the EPR signals from the...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Smirnov AI,Norby SW,Clarkson RB,Walczak T,Swartz HM

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Recent literature shows that diffusion tensor properties can be estimated more accurately with diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) than with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Furthermore, the additional non-Gaussian diffusion features from DKI can be sensitive markers for tissue characterization. Despite these benef...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Tax CM,Otte WM,Viergever MA,Dijkhuizen RM,Leemans A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a fast protocol for measuring T1 values in the internal carotid artery (ICA), to validate this technique with in vitro measurements, and to evaluate its reproducibility. METHODS:A modified Look-Locker sequence was optimized to enable rapid determination of T1 in the ICA at 3T. T1 values from the ICA...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Li W,Liu P,Lu H,Strouse JJ,van Zijl PCM,Qin Q

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was made of the in vivo detectability of a pH-sensitive, imidazolidine spin probe, and the efficacy of low-frequency electron spin resonance (ESR)-based techniques for pH measurement in vitro and in vivo in rats. The techniques used were longitudinally-detected ESR (LODESR) and field-cycled dynamic nuclear pol...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Foster MA,Grigor'ev IA,Lurie DJ,Khramtsov VV,McCallum S,Panagiotelis I,Hutchison JM,Koptioug A,Nicholson I

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To demonstrate the feasibility of imaging the first passage of a bolus of hyperpolarized (13)C urea through the rodent heart using flow-sensitizing gradients to reduce signal from the blood pool. METHODS:A flow-sensitizing bipolar gradient was optimized to reduce the bright signal within the cardiac chambers, ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lau AZ,Miller JJ,Robson MD,Tyler DJ

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MnCl(2) was injected intrathecally through the cisterna magna in rats, allowing infusion of divalent manganese ions (Mn(++)) into the CSF space and thence into the brain, without breaking the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Mn(++) uptake and washout dynamics in the brain were measured by serial T(1)-weighted MRI and EPI T(...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Liu CH,D'Arceuil HE,de Crespigny AJ

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The resolution in conventional BOLD FMRI is considerably lower than can be achieved with other MRI methods, and is insufficient for many important applications. One major difficulty in robustly improving spatial resolution is the poor image quality in BOLD FMRI, which suffers from distortions, blurring, and signal dro...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Miller KL,Smith SM,Jezzard P,Pauly JM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a prospective baseline enhancement that compensates for intermingled background effects in Z-spectra to achieve sensitivity enhancement of peaks related to CEST and nuclear Overhauser effect. METHODS:An MRI sequence-specific compensation of background effects is achieved through variation of the pul...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lenich T,Pampel A,Mildner T,Möller HE

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To improve quantification of myocardial blood flow using a fast T1 mapping technique using highly constrained back projection reconstruction (HYPR)-accelerated acquisition. METHODS:A major source of error in the measurement of myocardial blood flow (MBF) using MRI is the nonlinear relationship between image si...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Chen D,Sharif B,Dharmakumar R,Thomson LE,Bairey Merz CN,Berman DS,Li D

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intermolecular double quantum coherences (iDQCs), signals that result from simultaneous transitions of two or more separated spins, are known to produce images that are highly sensitive to subvoxel structure, particularly local anisotropy. Here we demonstrate how iDQCs signal can be used to efficiently detect the anis...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Branca RT,Chen YM,Mouraviev V,Galiana G,Jenista ER,Kumar C,Leuschner C,Warren WS

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A combined carbogen ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide (USPIO) imaging protocol was developed and applied in vivo in two murine colorectal tumor xenograft models, HCT116 and SW1222, with established disparate vascular morphology, to investigate whether additional information could be extracted from the combinatio...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Burrell JS,Walker-Samuel S,Baker LC,Boult JK,Ryan AJ,Waterton JC,Halliday J,Robinson SP

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed a device to compress small samples of articular cartilage while the samples were imaged in a 1.5 T imager. With the use of a piezoelectric piston, the device compressed 1-cm-diameter cylindrical samples of articular cartilage (200 microm) at a rate of 2 Hz. Simultaneously, we imaged the samples with a d...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hardy PA,Ridler AC,Chiarot CB,Plewes DB,Henkelman RM

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial MR first-pass perfusion time courses are contaminated by signals from the ventricles (spillover) as a consequence of partial volume effects and motion. An early increase in the signal intensity from the myocardium is an indicator of contamination. This contamination leads to under- or overestimation of perf...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Köstler H,Ritter C,Reiss-Zimmermann M,Beer M,Hahn D,Sandstede J

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Magnetization transfer in white matter (WM) causes biexponential relaxation, but most quantitative T1 measurements fit data assuming monoexponential relaxation. The resulting monoexponential T1 estimate varies based on scan parameters and represents a source of variation between studies, especially at high fiel...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Rioux JA,Levesque IR,Rutt BK

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) and spin-locking (SL) experiments were both able to probe the exchange process between protons of nonequivalent chemical environments. To compare the characteristics of the CEST and SL approaches in the study of chemical exchange effects, we performed CEST and SL experiment...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Jin T,Autio J,Obata T,Kim SG

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical bone in the mature skeleton has a short T(2)* and produces no detectable signal with conventional MR sequences. A two-dimensional ultrashort echo time (UTE) sequence employing half radio frequency (RF) pulse excitations and radial ramp sampling reduces the effective TE to 8 micros and is capable of detecting ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Du J,Hamilton G,Takahashi A,Bydder M,Chung CB

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequential albumin-Gd-DTPA and Gd-DTPA dynamic enhancement studies were performed in an animal tumor model for the comparison of regional vascularity and permeability parameters measured by these two different sizes of contrast agents. The early albumin-Gd-DTPA enhancement arises from the vascular compartment, and the...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Su MY,Najafi AA,Nalcioglu O

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to obtain proton magnetic resonance spectra from the normal human kidney in vivo, we employed a STEAM sequence with delay times TE = 10 ms and TM = 30 ms. Signals are attenuated during STEAM sequences by J-coupling effects and by macroscopic movement of the sample. The combination of short echo times and resp...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Dixon RM,Frahm J

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of ternary complexes between Gd-DTPA, Gd-DTPA-BMA, and Gd-DOTA, used as contrast enhancement agents in MRI and the endogenously available carbonate and phosphate ions, has been demonstrated. The extent of ternary complex formation and its effect on the proton relaxation, measured at 9 MHz, rates is negligibl...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Burai L,Hietapelto V,Király R,Tóth E,Brücher E

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00