Potassium transport in Langendorff-perfused mouse hearts assessed by 87Rb NMR spectroscopy.

abstract：:This study aims to assess whether an alternative method, that is based on volumetric surface detection (VoSD) without tracing and is totally free of geometric assumptions, can improve the reproducibility of right ventricular (RV) volume quantification from cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) images, in comparison with a ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Catalano O,Corsi C,Antonaci S,Moro G,Mussida M,Frascaroli M,Baldi M,Caiani E,Lamberti C,Cobelli F

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The shells trajectory is a 3D data acquisition method with improved efficiency compared to Cartesian sampling. It is a true center-out trajectory that does not repeatedly resample the center of k-space, and also offers advantages for motion correction. This work demonstrates that k-space undersampling can be combined ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Shu Y,Riederer SJ,Bernstein MA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vascular space occupancy (VASO) method was recently proposed as a functional MRI (fMRI) method that is capable of detecting activation-related changes in blood volume (CBV), without the need for a blood-pool contrast agent. In the present work we introduce a new whole-brain VASO technique that is based on a parall...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Poser BA,Norris DG

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：:The proton T(1) was measured at 132 μT in ex vivo prostate tissue specimens from radical prostatectomies of 35 patients with prostate cancer. Each patient provided two specimens. The NMR and MRI measurements involved proton repolarization, a field of typically 150 mT and detection of the 5.6-kHz signal with a supercon...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Busch S,Hatridge M,Mößle M,Myers W,Wong T,Mück M,Chew K,Kuchinsky K,Simko J,Clarke J

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In several applications, MRI is used to monitor the time behavior of the signal in an organ of interest; e.g., signal evolution because of physiological motion, activation, or contrast-agent accumulation. Dynamic applications involve acquiring data in a k-t space, which contains both temporal and spatial information. ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Madore B,Glover GH,Pelc NJ

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current MRI methods for myocardial motion and strain quantification have limited resolution because of Fourier space spectral peak interference. Methods have been proposed to remove this interference in order to improve resolution; however, these methods are clinically impractical due to the prolonged imaging times. I...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Agarwal HK,Prince JL,Abd-Elmoniem KZ

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We exploit the intrinsic difference in magnetic resonance spin-spin relaxation time, T2, between water associated with myelin sheaths and water in other central nervous system tissue in order to measure myelin water content within any region of an image or to generate indirectly a myelin map of the brain. In normal vo...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： MacKay A,Whittall K,Adler J,Li D,Paty D,Graeb D

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new NMR imaging technique, aiming at a reduction of the data acquisition time, is described in detail. The method is applicable in all multidimensional imaging situations where at least one spatial coordinate is resolved. Discussed at some length are the point-spread function, the required bandwidth of the NMR spect...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： van Uijen CM,den Boef JH,Verschuren FJ

更新日期：1985-06-01 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：:In vivo lactate detection using gradient enhanced double quantum coherence transfer (DQCT) was significantly improved by addition of short-time-inversion-recovery (STIR). Phantom studies demonstrated lipid suppression down to the background noise level with 33% loss of lactate signal. In vivo studies using a rabbit mo...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Nakai T,Rhine WD,Okada T,Stevenson DK,Spielman DM

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1H transverse nuclear magnetic relaxation times (T2) and self-diffusion coefficients (SDCs) of water were measured in isolated proteoglycan aggregates from pig articular cartilage. The influence of varying osmotic pressure, as well as of different calcium concentrations, on the samples was investigated. Due to a struc...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Werner A,Gründer W

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The investigation of flow behavior in coronary arteries is of great importance for an understanding of heart failure and heart regulation mechanisms. The purpose of the present study was to demonstrate that flow velocity can be quantified in the coronary arteries of the isolated rat heart with high-resolution phase co...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Köhler S,Hiller KH,Jakob PM,Bauer WR,Haase A

更新日期：2003-09-01 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:The ultimate intrinsic signal-to-noise ratio (UISNR) is normally calculated using electrodynamic simulations with a complete basis of modes. Here, we provide an exact solution for the UISNR at the center of a dielectric sphere and assess how accurately this solution approximates UISNR away from the center. MET...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lee HH,Sodickson DK,Lattanzi R

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The goal of this study is to characterize and improve the accuracy of 2D magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) scans in the presence of slice profile (SP) and B1 imperfections, which are two main factors that affect quantitative results in MRF. METHODS:The SP and B1 imperfections are characterized and correc...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ma D,Coppo S,Chen Y,McGivney DF,Jiang Y,Pahwa S,Gulani V,Griswold MA

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:A target-pattern-driven (TD) trajectory design is introduced in combination with parallel transmit (pTX) radiofrequency (RF) pulses to provide localized suppression of unwanted signals. The design incorporates target-pattern and B1+ information to adjust denser sampling and coverage in k-space regions where the...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Schneider R,Haueisen J,Pfeuffer J

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experiments reported herein are the first MRI investigations of the orientational dependence of T(2) relaxation in articular cartilage at microscopic resolution over the 360 degrees angular space. For each of six canine cartilage specimens, 48 independent T(2)-weighted proton images were acquired for 12 different ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Xia Y,Moody JB,Alhadlaq H

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential application of gas microbubbles as a unique intravascular susceptibility contrast agent for MRI has not been fully explored. In this study, the MR susceptibility effect of an ultrasound microbubble contrast agent, Optison, was studied with rat liver imaging at 7 T. Optison suspension in two different dos...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wong KK,Huang I,Kim YR,Tang H,Yang ES,Kwong KK,Wu EX

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the feasibility of an improved motion and flow robust methodology for imaging the pulmonary vasculature using non-contrast-enhanced, free-breathing, golden-angle radial MRI. METHODS:Healthy volunteers (n = 10, age 46 ± 11 years, 50% female) and patients (n = 2, ages 27 and 84, both female) were ima...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Fyrdahl A,Vargas Paris R,Nyrén S,Holst K,Ugander M,Lindholm P,Sigfridsson A

更新日期：2018-11-01 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 validate an automatic algorithm for offline T2* measurements, providing robust, vendor-independent T2*, and uncertainty estimates for iron load quantification in the heart and liver using clinically available imaging sequences. METHODS:A T2* region of interest (ROI)-based algorithm was developed for robustn...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bidhult S,Xanthis CG,Liljekvist LL,Greil G,Nagel E,Aletras AH,Heiberg E,Hedström E

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phase contrast flow velocity measurements were performed in six healthy volunteers and 30 patients with arteriosclerotic disease. The iliac arteries were investigated in 8 cases and the femoral arteries in 28 cases. In the first 24 patients, 16 evenly distributed data sets were acquired during one cardiac cycle. In th...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Krug B,Kugel H,Harnischmacher U,Heindel W,Schmidt R,Krings F

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffusion-weighted single voxel experiments conducted at b-values up to 1 x 10(4) smm-2 yielded biexponential signal attenuation curves for both normal and ischemic brain. The relative fractions of the rapidly and slowly decaying components (f1, f2) are f1 = 0.80 +/- 0.02, f2 = 0.17 +/- 0.02 in healthy adult rat brain...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Niendorf T,Dijkhuizen RM,Norris DG,van Lookeren Campagne M,Nicolay K

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We sought to develop and test a clinically feasible 1-point Dixon, three-dimensional (3D) radial acquisition strategy to create isotropic 3D MR images of (129)Xe in the airspaces, barrier, and red blood cells (RBCs) in a single breath. The approach was evaluated in healthy volunteers and subjects with idiopathi...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kaushik SS,Robertson SH,Freeman MS,He M,Kelly KT,Roos JE,Rackley CR,Foster WM,McAdams HP,Driehuys B

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SENSitivity Encoding (SENSE) greatly enhances the quality of diffusion-weighted echo-planar imaging (EPI) by reducing blurring and off-resonance artifacts. Such improvement would also be desirable for diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), but measures derived from the diffusion tensor can be extremely sensitive to any kind ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bammer R,Auer M,Keeling SL,Augustin M,Stables LA,Prokesch RW,Stollberger R,Moseley ME,Fazekas F

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long readout times of single-shot acquisitions and the high field strengths desired for functional MRI (fMRI) using blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) contrast make functional scans sensitive to magnetic field inhomogeneity. If it is not corrected during image reconstruction, field inhomogeneity can cause ge...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sutton BP,Noll DC,Fessler JA

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manganese is a useful contrast agent for MRI of animals. Previously, it has been shown that systemic doses of MnCl(2) provide unique contrast in the rodent brain, enabling visualization of neuroarchitecture. The present work investigates the dose and temporal dependence of brain enhancement after i.v. administration o...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lee JH,Silva AC,Merkle H,Koretsky AP

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Segmented interleaved echo planar imaging offers a fast and efficient approach to magnetic resonance angiography. Unfortunately, this technique is particularly sensitive to oblique flow in the imaging plane. In this work, a mathematical analysis of oblique flow effects for several types of k-space coverage is presente...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Beck G,Li D,Haacke EM,Noll TG,Schad LR

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proton exchange rates between water and the hydroxyl protons of threonine, serine, tyrosine, the amino protons of lysine, and the guanidinium protons of arginine were measured in the pH range 0.5 to 8.5 and for the temperatures 4 degrees C, 10 degrees C, 20 degrees C, 30 degrees C, and 36 degrees C. The intrinsic ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Liepinsh E,Otting G

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00