Noise removal in magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging.

abstract：:T2-weighted MRI of edema in acute myocardial infarction (MI) provides a means of differentiating acute and chronic MI, and assessing the area at risk of infarction. Conventional T2-weighted imaging of edema uses a turbo spin-echo (TSE) readout with dark-blood preparation. Clinical applications of dark-blood TSE method...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kellman P,Aletras AH,Mancini C,McVeigh ER,Arai AE

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To design short parallel transmission (pTx) pulses for excitation of arbitrary three-dimensional (3D) magnetization patterns. METHODS:We propose a joint optimization of the pTx radiofrequency (RF) and gradient waveforms for excitation of arbitrary 3D magnetization patterns. Our optimization of the gradient wav...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Davids M,Schad LR,Wald LL,Guérin B

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spiral k-space magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) requires high performance from gradient hardware systems. During the readout phase, oscillating gradients are continuously played out, which can cause undesired effects. These effects on the quality of SI data are non-intuitive because of their time-varyin...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kim DH,Spielman DM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the use of variable flip angle refocusing pulse trains in single-shot three-dimensional gradient and spin-echo (3D-GRASE) to reduce blurring and increase the spatial coverage for high spatial resolution T2 -weighted functional MRI at 7 Tesla. METHODS:Variable flip angle refocusing schemes in 3D-GRA...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kemper VG,De Martino F,Yacoub E,Goebel R

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current implementations of coronary artery magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) suffer from limited coverage of the coronary arterial system. Whole-heart coronary MRA was implemented based on a free-breathing steady-state free-precession (SSFP) technique with magnetization preparation. The technique was compared to a ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Weber OM,Martin AJ,Higgins CB

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：:The application of spectroscopy techniques to the study of normal and pathological tissue is currently limited by the difficulties of acquiring precisely localized spectra and analyzing the resulting, relatively low signal-to-noise data. Interpretation of multivoxel spectroscopy data is greatly facilitated by estimati...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Nelson SJ,Vigneron DB,Brown TR

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is presented for measuring myocardial deformation in a breath-hold with tagged cine MRI. Tagged cine images of human hearts are obtained in arbitrary oblique planes on a standard imager with as few as four heartbeats. The scan time has been reduced 16- to 64-fold from previous techniques. ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： McVeigh ER,Atalar E

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new volume selection/spectral editing pulse sequence (VOSING) is presented. The features specific to the technique are that the volume selection and the editing intervals coincide and that no decoupling is necessary. The pulse sequence can be applied under both homo- and heteronuclear conditions. Phantom experiments...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Knüttel A,Rommel E,Clausen M,Kimmich R

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The idea of using parallel imaging to shorten the acquisition time by the simultaneous use of multiple receive coils can be adapted for the parallel transmission of a spatially-selective multidimensional RF pulse. As in data acquisition, a multidimensional RF pulse follows a certain k-space trajectory. Shortening this...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Katscher U,Börnert P,Leussler C,van den Brink JS

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：PURPOSE:MR safety at 7 Tesla relies on accurate numerical simulations of transmit electromagnetic fields to fully assess local specific absorption rate (SAR) safety. Numerical simulations for SAR safety are currently performed using models of healthy patients. These simulations might not be useful for estimating SAR in...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Restivo MC,van den Berg CA,van Lier AL,Polders DL,Raaijmakers AJ,Luijten PR,Hoogduin H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When developing new techniques for NMR imaging and in vivo spectroscopy it is a major advantage to be able to calculate the magnetization slice profiles, at any point during a pulse sequence in the presence of a field gradient. While this has frequently been done by treating the problem as a number of discrete resonan...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bulsing JM,Galloway GJ,Brereton IM,Doddrell DM

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To test the efficacy of 7T MRS for in vivo detection of 2-hydroxyglutarate (2HG) in brain tumors. METHODS:The subecho times of point-resolved spectroscopy (PRESS) were optimized at 7T with density-matrix simulations and phantom validation to improve the 2HG signal selectivity with respect to the neighboring re...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ganji SK,An Z,Tiwari V,McNeil S,Pinho MC,Pan E,Mickey BE,Maher EA,Choi C

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were performed to determine whether changes in T2*-weighted MR images during and after hyperoxia differentiate tumors from normal tissue. Mammary adenocarcinomas implanted in the right hind limbs of rats were studied. Gradient echo images were obtained at 2 Tesla with an evolution time of 20 ms and a recyc...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kuperman VYu,River JN,Lewis MZ,Lubich LM,Karczmar GS

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multimodal MR study including relaxometry, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and MR spectroscopy was performed on patients with classical phenylketonuria (PKU) and matched controls, to improve our understanding of white matter (WM) lesions. Relaxometry yields information on myelin loss or malformation and may substant...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Vermathen P,Robert-Tissot L,Pietz J,Lutz T,Boesch C,Kreis R

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Magnetic resonance (MR) cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) is an established specialist method for imaging the upper abdomen and biliary/pancreatic ducts. Due to limitations of either MR image contrast or low through-plane resolution, patients may require further evaluation with contrast-enhanced computed tomograp...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ebner M,Patel PA,Atkinson D,Caselton L,Firmin L,Amin Z,Bainbridge A,De Coppi P,Taylor SA,Ourselin S,Chouhan MD,Vercauteren T

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the influence of transcytolemmal water exchange on estimates of tissue microstructural parameters derived from diffusion MRI using conventional PGSE and IMPULSED methods. METHODS:Computer simulations were performed to incorporate a broad range of intracellular water life times τin (50-∞ ms), cel...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Li H,Jiang X,Xie J,Gore JC,Xu J

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of cardiac viability and functional information enhances the identification of different heart tissues in the setting of ischemic heart disease. A method has recently been proposed for obtaining black-blood delayed-enhancement (DE) viability images using the stimulated-echo acquisition mode (STEAM) MRI...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ibrahim el-SH,Stuber M,Kraitchman DL,Weiss RG,Osman NF

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To characterize pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (pCASL) through simulations of spin inversion and to discuss suitable parameter settings for measuring cerebral perfusion. METHODS:Simulations of arterial spin inversion in pCASL were performed based on the Bloch equation. Both the labeling and the contr...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lorenz K,Mildner T,Schlumm T,Möller HE

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop and evaluate a novel 2D phase-unwrapping method that works robustly in the presence of severe noise, rapid phase changes, and disconnected regions. THEORY AND METHODS:The MR phase map usually varies rapidly in regions adjacent to wraps. In contrast, the phasors can vary slowly, especially in regions...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Cheng J,Mei Y,Liu B,Guan J,Liu X,Wu EX,Feng Q,Chen W,Feng Y

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To introduce and evaluate an image registration technique for robust quantification of CEST acquisitions corrupted by motion. METHODS:The proposed iterative algorithm exploits a low-rank approximation of the z-spectrum (LRAZ), to gradually separate the contrast variation due to saturation at different off-reso...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wech T,Köstler H

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Correlation imaging is a previously developed high-speed MRI framework that converts parallel imaging reconstruction into the estimate of correlation functions. The presented work aims to demonstrate this framework can provide a speed gain over parallel imaging by estimating k-space variant correlation function...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Li Y,Edalati M,Du X,Wang H,Cao JJ

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Applications of fMRI in functional brain imaging are mainly confined to single subject designs, prohibiting the assessment of subject or group by condition interactions (i.e., differential activations) or areas of conjoint activation. In this paper a framework for fMRI group designs, using statistical parametric mappi...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Büchel C,Turner R,Friston K

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Preclinical imaging of myocardial blood flow (MBF) can elucidate molecular mechanisms underlying cardiovascular disease. We compared the repeatability and variability of two methods, first-pass MRI and arterial spin labeling (ASL), for imaging MBF in mice. METHODS:Quantitative perfusion MRI in mice was perform...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Naresh NK,Chen X,Moran E,Tian Y,French BA,Epstein FH

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We improved the three-point phase-contrast method by regularization of MR velocity data after acquisition of a low velocity-to-noise ratio (VNR) velocity image and a high VNR aliased velocity image. The phase unwrapping algorithm is based on the assumed correlation of the velocity of adjacent flow voxels on the low VN...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Herment A,Mousseaux E,Jolivet O,DeCesare A,Frouin F,Todd-Pokropek A,Bittoun J

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Applications of dynamic shimming require high field fidelity, and characterizing the shim field dynamics is therefore necessary. Modeling the system as linear and time-invariant, the purpose of this work was to measure the impulse response function with optimal sensitivity. THEORY AND METHODS:Frequency-swept p...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Vannesjo SJ,Dietrich BE,Pavan M,Brunner DO,Wilm BJ,Barmet C,Pruessmann KP

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single-shot, two-echo method for the simultaneous detection of multiple-quantum (MQ)-filtered gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and creatine (Cr) was developed and demonstrated in the human brain in vivo at 3 Tesla. The simultaneously measured Cr singlet served as a navigator for the spectral phase of GABA and any freq...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Choi IY,Lee SP,Merkle H,Shen J

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manganese-enhanced MRI has previously been used for visualization of brain architecture and functional mapping of neural pathways. The present work investigated the potential of manganese-enhanced MRI for noninvasive imaging of salivary glands in living subjects. Marked shortening of T(1) was observed in salivary glan...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Seshadri M,Hoy A

更新日期：2010-09-01 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