Exploring the limits of RF shimming for high-field MRI of the human head.

abstract：PURPOSE:To present a double diffusion encoding MRI sequence on a clinical scanner to analyze micro-structure and micro-vasculature of tumors. METHODS:The sequence was tested on phantoms, asparaguses, and 2 tumors allografts in a rodent. Results were analyzed using an adapted VERDICT model to estimate microstructural p...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Duchêne G,Abarca-Quinones J,Leclercq I,Duprez T,Peeters F

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In MRI, imaging using receiving coil arrays with a large number of elements is an area of growing interest. With increasing channel numbers for parallel acquisition, longer reconstruction times have become a significant concern. Channel reduction techniques have been proposed to reduce the processing time of channel-b...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Huang F,Lin W,Duensing GR,Reykowski A

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has resulted in many exciting studies that have exploited its unique capability. However, the utility of event-related fMRI is still limited by several technical difficulties. One significant limitation in event-related fMRI is the low signal-to-...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： LaConte SM,Ngan SC,Hu X

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a pulsed CEST magnetization-transfer method for rapidly acquiring relayed nuclear Overhauser enhancement (rNOE)-weighted images with magnetic transfer contrast (MTC) suppression at clinical field strength (3 T). METHODS:Using a pulsed CEST magnetization-transfer method with low saturation powers (B1...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Huang J,Han X,Chen L,Xu X,Xu J,Chan KWY

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：PURPOSE:To demonstrate the feasibility of imaging a bolus of co-polarized [1-13 C]pyruvate and 13 C-urea to simultaneously assess both metabolism and perfusion in the rodent heart. METHODS:Copolarized [1-13 C]pyruvate and 13 C-urea was imaged using a multi-echo, flow-sensitized spiral pulse sequence. Healthy rats were...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

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

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MRI has become an important tool to noninvasively assess global and regional cardiac function, infarct size, or myocardial blood flow in surgically or genetically modified mouse models of human heart disease. Constraints on scan time due to sensitivity to general anesthesia in hemodynamically compromised mice frequent...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Schneider JE,Lanz T,Barnes H,Stork LA,Bohl S,Lygate CA,Ordidge RJ,Neubauer S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy of perfusion measurements using dynamic, susceptibility-weighted, contrast-enhanced MRI depends on estimating contrast agent concentration in an artery, i.e., the arterial input function. One of the difficulties associated with obtaining an arterial input function are partial volume effects when both bloo...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Patil V,Johnson G

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incoherent displacement of water in living tissues is of considerable interest because of the widespread use of diffusion-weighted MRI, for which image contrast is based on the water apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC). It has been hypothesized that the decrease in water ADC associated with brain injury is primar...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sehy JV,Ackerman JJ,Neil JJ

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Direct mapping of neuronal currents using MRI would have fundamental impacts on brain functional imaging. Previous reports indicated that the stimulus-induced rotary saturation (SIRS) mechanism had the best potential of direct detection of neural oscillations; however, it lacked the high-sensitivity level neede...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Jiang X,Sheng J,Li H,Chai Y,Zhou X,Wu B,Guo X,Gao JH

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To separate the spectrally overlapped lactate and lipid signals at 1.3 ppm using diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance spectroscopy (DW-MRS) based on their large diffusivity difference. METHODS:DW-MRS was applied to the gel phantoms containing lactate and lipid droplets, and to the rat brain tumors. Lactate an...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wang AM,Leung GK,Kiang KM,Chan D,Cao P,Wu EX

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Function and morphology of the cerebral vasculature were studied in the amyloid (Abeta) plaque-containing double-transgenic (TG) B6.PS2APP Alzheimer's disease (AD) mouse model with MRI at an age range of 10 to 17 months. Perfusion, blood volume, and average vessel geometry were assessed in the brain and compared to ag...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Weidensteiner C,Metzger F,Bruns A,Bohrmann B,Kuennecke B,von Kienlin M

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：PURPOSE:Our clinical understanding of the relationship between 3D bone morphology and knee osteoarthritis, as well as our ability to investigate potential causative factors of osteoarthritis, has been hampered by the time-intensive nature of manually segmenting bone from MR images. Thus, we aim to develop and validate ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Cheng R,Alexandridi NA,Smith RM,Shen A,Gandler W,McCreedy E,McAuliffe MJ,Sheehan FT

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MRS has considerable potential for the measurement of drug pharmacokinetics in vivo. In this study single- and double-resonance (31)P MRS was used to investigate the biodistribution, pharmacokinetics, and metabolism of ifosfamide following administration of 500 mg/kg ifosfamide in guinea pigs. (1)H-decoupling was foun...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Mancini L,Payne GS,Dzik-Jurasz AS,Leach MO

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Black blood MRI is an attractive tool for monitoring normal and pathological wall thickening; however, limited spatial resolutions can conspire with complex vascular geometries to distort the appearance of the wall in ways hitherto unclear. To elucidate this, a thin-walled cylinder model was developed to predict the c...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Antiga L,Wasserman BA,Steinman DA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a one-step quantification approach that accounts for joint preprocessing and quantification of whole-range kinetics (early and late-phase washout) of dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI of indeterminate adnexal masses. METHODS:Preoperative DCE-MRI of 43 (24 benign, 19 malignant) sonographically inde...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Fathi Kazerooni A,Nabil M,Haghighat Khah H,Parviz S,Gity M,Saligheh Rad H

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For MR applications such as contrast-enhanced MR angiography, it is desirable to achieve simultaneously high spatial and temporal resolution. The current clinical standard uses view-sharing methods combined with parallel imaging; however, this approach still provides limited spatial and temporal resolution. To improve...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wang K,Busse RF,Holmes JH,Beatty PJ,Brittain JH,Francois CJ,Reeder SB,Du J,Korosec FR

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new NMR parameter is suggested as a sensitive tool for monitoring thermal coagulation of liver tissue. That parameter is the proton magnetization exchange time (tau(MEX)) between water and the proteins. tau(MEX) was very sensitive to coagulation and insensitive to temperature, therefore representing only damage to t...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Carasso D,Eliav U,Navon G

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have obtained high-field (11.7 Tesla), high-resolution carbon-13 solid-state "magic-angle" sample-spinning nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra of a variety of phospholipids, sphingolipids, myelin and white matter samples, resolving and assigning over 40 resonances in the spectra of human and bovine myelin. The...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Husted C,Montez B,Le C,Moscarello MA,Oldfield E

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative diffusion measurements were performed in tumors arising from inoculation of nude mice with two human breast cancer cell lines (MCF7 and T47D) to evaluate the specificity of this technique for characterizing solid tumors. ADC maps were compared to histology and correlated well with gross tumor morphology. ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Maier CF,Paran Y,Bendel P,Rutt BK,Degani H

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To demonstrate the feasibility of a novel, ellipse fitting approach, named PLANET, for simultaneous estimation of relaxation times T1 and T2 from a single 3D phase-cycled balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) sequence. METHODS:A method is presented in which the elliptical signal model is used to descri...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Shcherbakova Y,van den Berg CAT,Moonen CTW,Bartels LW

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady-state free precession (SSFP) methods have gained widespread recognition for their ability to provide fast scans at high signal-to-noise ratio. This paper demonstrates that such methods are also capable of reflecting functional information, particularly blood oxygenation state. It is well known that SSFP signals...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Dharmakumar R,Hong J,Brittain JH,Plewes DB,Wright GA

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parallel magnetic resonance imaging (pMRI) using multichannel receiver coils has emerged as an effective tool to reduce imaging time in various applications. However, the issue of accurate estimation of coil sensitivities has not been fully addressed, which limits the level of speed enhancement achievable with the tec...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ying L,Sheng J

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultra-fast application of the RARE experiment is described in detail, with special emphasis on its multifarious applications with preparation experiments that produce transverse magnetization. The factors affecting the temporal evolution of the magnetization during the experiment are described, and the implication...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Norris DG,Börnert P,Reese T,Leibfritz D

更新日期：1992-09-01 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：PURPOSE:We aimed to develop a novel free-breathing cardiac diffusion tensor MRI (DT-MRI) approach, M2-MT-MOCO, capable of whole left ventricular coverage that leverages second-order motion compensation (M2) diffusion encoding and multitasking (MT) framework to efficiently correct for respiratory motion (MOCO). METHODS...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Nguyen CT,Christodoulou AG,Coll-Font J,Ma S,Xie Y,Reese TG,Mekkaoui C,Lewis GD,Bi X,Sosnovik DE,Li D

更新日期：2020-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The relaxation of (1)H nuclei due to their interaction with quadrupolar (14)N nuclei in gel structures is measured using fast field-cycling NMR. This phenomenon called quadrupolar dips has been reported in different (1)H-(14)N bond-rich species. In this study, we have studied quadrupolar dips in fibrin, an insoluble p...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Broche LM,Ismail SR,Booth NA,Lurie DJ

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Anisotropic transverse R2 (1/T2 ) relaxation of water proton is sensitive to cartilage degenerative changes. The purpose is to develop an efficient method to extract this relaxation metric in clinical studies. METHODS:Anisotropic R2 can be measured inefficiently by standard R2 mapping after removing an isotrop...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Pang Y,Palmieri-Smith RM,Malyarenko DI,Swanson SD,Chenevert TL

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Magnetic resonance imaging of humans at high magnetic field strengths is strongly influenced by the interference of the radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic field and the body. To minimize this effect, multiple RF sources could be used. A novel setup (called multimode, coaxial waveguide) is proposed that facilit...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Andreychenko A,Kroeze H,Boer VO,Lagendijk JJ,Luijten PR,van den Berg CA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00