Saturated double-angle method for rapid B1+ mapping.

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate Shift Undersampling improves Parametric mapping Efficiency and Resolution (SUPER), a novel blockwise curve-fitting method for accelerating parametric mapping with very fast reconstruction. METHODS:SUPER uses interleaved k-space undersampling, which enables a blockwise decomposition of the otherw...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hu C,Peters DC

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has become the most widely used modality for visualizing regional brain activation in response to sensorimotor or cognitive tasks. While the majority of fMRI studies have used blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) contrast as a marker for neural activation, baseline drif...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wang J,Aguirre GK,Kimberg DY,Roc AC,Li L,Detre JA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To improve imaging performance for body MRI with a local transmit array at 10.5T, the geometry of a dipole antenna was optimized to achieve lower peak specific absorption rate (SAR) levels and a more uniform transmit profile. METHODS:Electromagnetic simulations on a phantom were used to evaluate the SAR and ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Steensma B,van de Moortele PF,Ertürk A,Grant A,Adriany G,Luijten P,Klomp D,van den Berg N,Metzger G,Raaijmakers A

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new k-space direct matrix inversion (DMI) method is proposed here to accelerate non-Cartesian SENSE reconstructions. In this method a global k-space matrix equation is established on basic MRI principles, and the inverse of the global encoding matrix is found from a set of local matrix equations by taking advantage ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Qian Y,Zhang Z,Wang Y,Boada FE

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Cross-relaxation imaging (CRI) is a family of quantitative magnetization transfer techniques that utilize images obtained with off-resonance saturation and longitudinal relaxation rate (R1) maps reconstructed by the variable flip angle (VFA) method. It was demonstrated recently that a significant bias in an app...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Mossahebi P,Yarnykh VL,Samsonov A

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Assessing the functionality of muscle fibers is essential to monitor both pathological and physiological processes. Here, we present a new method for accurate, quantitative measurement of muscle contraction with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an electrical muscle stimulator (EMS), hence allowing the dir...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Deligianni X,Pansini M,Garcia M,Hirschmann A,Schmidt-Trucksäss A,Bieri O,Santini F

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging has achieved clinical importance and has become the primary tool in the investigation of head, spinal cord, pelvis, cancellous bone, pericardium (with gating), gallbladder, lymph node masses, and very soon, in the evaluation of joints. In many areas, particularly with respiratory and ECG gat...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Margulis AR,Fisher MR

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantification of cerebral blood flow using QUIPSSII pulsed arterial spin labeling requires that the QUIPSS saturation delay TI1 is shorter than the natural temporal bolus width. Yet the duration of the bolus of tagged spins entering the region of interest varies during vasoactive stimuli such as gaseous challenges or...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Villien M,Chipon E,Troprès I,Bouvier J,Cantin S,Chechin D,Le Bas JF,Krainik A,Warnking JM

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echo-planar spectroscopic imaging (EPSI) can be used for fast spectroscopic imaging of water and fat resonances at high resolution to improve structural and functional imaging. Because of the use of oscillating gradients during the free induction decay (FID), spectra obtained with EPSI are often degraded by Nyquist gh...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Du W,Du YP,Fan X,Zamora MA,Karczmar GS

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the advent of breath-hold MR cardiac imaging techniques, the minimization of TR and TE for oblique planes has become a critical issue. The slew rates and maximum currents of gradient amplifiers limit the minimum possible TR and TE by adding dead-periods to the pulse sequences. We propose a method of designing gra...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Atalar E,McVeigh ER

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stejskal and Tanner's ingenious pulsed field gradient design from 1965 has made diffusion NMR and MRI the mainstay of most studies seeking to resolve microstructural information in porous systems in general and biological systems in particular. Methods extending beyond Stejskal and Tanner's design, such as double diff...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Shemesh N,Jespersen SN,Alexander DC,Cohen Y,Drobnjak I,Dyrby TB,Finsterbusch J,Koch MA,Kuder T,Laun F,Lawrenz M,Lundell H,Mitra PP,Nilsson M,Özarslan E,Topgaard D,Westin CF

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The previously reported concept for quantitative magnetization transfer (MT) imaging using balanced steady-state free precession (SSFP) is applied to nonbalanced SSFP sequences. This offers the possibility to derive quantitative MT parameters of targets with high-susceptibility variations such as the musculoskeletal s...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Gloor M,Scheffler K,Bieri O

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To test octafluorocyclobutane (OFCB) as an inhalation contrast agent for fluorine-19 MRI of the lung, and to compare the image quality of OFCB scans with perfluoropropane (PFP) scans THEORY AND METHODS: After normalizing for the number of signal averages, a theoretical comparison between the OFCB signal-to-nois...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Shepelytskyi Y,Li T,Grynko V,Newman C,Hane FT,Albert MS

更新日期：2021-02-01 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：:The assumption of linear time-invariance (LTI) in the human primary somatosensory cortex (SI) is assessed for fMRI signals generated by variable-duration vibrotactile stimuli. Predictions based on time-shifted summation (TSS) of responses to 2 s stimuli overestimate observed BOLD signal amplitudes in response to longe...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Nangini C,Macintosh BJ,Tam F,Staines WR,Graham SJ

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Anesthesia is necessary for most animal studies requiring invasive procedures. It is well documented that various types of anesthesia modulate a wide variety of important metabolic and functional processes in the body, and as such, represent a potential limitation in the study design. In the present study, we a...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Qi H,Mariager CØ,Lindhardt J,Nielsen PM,Stødkilde-Jørgensen H,Laustsen C

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer simulation program capable of demonstrating various artifacts, such as image distortion caused by metallic implants in MR imaging, is presented. The structure of the program allows for the implementation of various imaging situations as long as spins only experience weak interaction, i.e., the Bloch equatio...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Olsson MB,Wirestam R,Persson BR

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a method to use information from multiple MRI contrasts to produce a composite angiogram with reduced sequence-specific artifacts and improved vessel depiction. METHODS:Bayesian posterior vessel probability was determined as a function of black blood (BB), contrast enhanced angiography (CE-MRA), and...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kim D,Edjlali M,Turski P,Johnson KM

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop and validate a data processing technique that allows phase-contrast MRI-based 4D flow imaging of the aortic valve in a single breath-hold. THEORY AND METHODS:To regularize the ill-posed inverse problem, we extend a recently proposed 2D phase-contrast MRI method to 4D flow imaging. Adopting an empiri...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Rich A,Potter LC,Jin N,Liu Y,Simonetti OP,Ahmad R

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orientational anisotropy of T2 and T1 relaxation times, diffusion, and magnetization transfer has been investigated for six different tissues: tendon, cartilage, kidney, muscle, white matter, and optic nerve. Relaxation anisotropy was observed for tendon and cartilage, and diffusional anisotropy was measured in kidney...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Henkelman RM,Stanisz GJ,Kim JK,Bronskill MJ

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to a delayed echo-formation, echo-shifted gradient echo sequences (ES-GRE) allow for an enhanced T(2)*-weighting at short repetition times. While they are in use with and without RF spoiling, analytical solutions are only known for the latter. The signal formation in the former could only be assessed in approximat...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ganter C

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To design hyperbolic secant (HS) excitation pulses to reduce signal dropout in the orbitofrontal and inferior temporal regions in gradient-echo echo-planar imaging (GE-EPI) for functional MRI (fMRI) applications. METHODS:An algorithm based on Bloch simulations optimizes the HS pulse parameters needed to give t...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wastling SJ,Barker GJ

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modular, user-friendly computer simulation of NMR imaging was created for the DEC VAX computer. This simulation is novel in that complex imaging phenomena, such as chemical shifts and flow, may be easily studied. Other features include spin warp and backprojection imaging, movie generation, and simulation of image c...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Summers RM,Axel L,Israel S

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the pulsed arterial spin labeling (ASL) techniques EPISTAR, PICORE, and FAIR, subtraction of two images in which inflowing blood is first tagged and then not tagged yields a qualitative map of perfusion. An important reason this map is not quantitative is that there is a spatially varying delay in the transit of bl...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wong EC,Buxton RB,Frank LR

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop histology-informed simulations of diffusion tensor cardiovascular magnetic resonance (DT-CMR) for typical in-vivo pulse sequences and determine their sensitivity to changes in extra-cellular space (ECS) and other microstructural parameters. METHODS:We synthesised the DT-CMR signal from Monte Carlo r...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Rose JN,Nielles-Vallespin S,Ferreira PF,Firmin DN,Scott AD,Doorly DJ

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A receive-only phased-array coil was designed to image the lower extremities. The array consists of four volume coils placed on two cylindrical formers. The coil array has the ability to image both legs simultaneously over a 40 cm longitudinal field of view (FOV). Experiments using phantoms show an increase in signal-...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Brown R,Mareyam A,Reid E,Wang Y

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deuterium (2H) double-quantum filtered (DQF) NMR spectroscopy of nucleus pulposus (NP) tissues from human intervertebral discs is reported. The DQF spectral intensities, DQ build-up rates, and DQF-detected rotating-frame spin-lattice relaxation times are sensitive to the degree of hydration of the NP tissue, and displ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Perea W,Cannella M,Yang J,Vega AJ,Polenova T,Marcolongo M

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this work was to develop a rapid and robust whole-body fat-water MRI (FWMRI) method using a continuously moving table (CMT) with dynamic field corrections at 3 Tesla. METHODS:CMT FWMRI was developed at 3 Tesla with a multiecho golden angle (GA) radial trajectory and dynamic B0 field shimming. Wh...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sengupta S,Smith DS,Gifford A,Welch EB

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A non-invasive method for studying the modifications induced in lipid depots by hormonal stimulation could extend knowledge of adipose tissues. We studied the effect of adrenergic stimulation on interscapular brown adipose tissue (IBAT) of rats using contrast-enhanced MRI. Controls and rats pre-treated with adrenaline...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sbarbati A,Cavallini I,Marzola P,Nicolato E,Osculati F

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-slab 3D turbo/fast spin echo (SE) imaging with very long echo trains was recently introduced with slab selection using a highly selective excitation pulse and short, nonselective refocusing pulses with variable flip angles for high imaging efficiency. This technique, however, is vulnerable to image degradation ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Park J,Mugler JP 3rd,Hughes T

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00