Arterial spin labeling perfusion fMRI with very low task frequency.

abstract：:The role of relative cerebral blood volume (rCBV) in the early response of blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) signal following sensory stimulation was assessed. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measurements of rCBV and BOLD signal as a function of time (t) were compared with relative cerebral blood flow (rCBF) o...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Marota JJ,Ayata C,Moskowitz MA,Weisskoff RM,Rosen BR,Mandeville JB

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breathing motion is one of the main sources of artifacts in MRI acquisitions that can severely impair diagnosis. In MRI with continuously moving table, the application of common motion compensation approaches such as breath holding or the synchronization of the measurement with the breathing motion can be problematic....

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Honal M,Leupold J,Huff S,Baumann T,Ludwig U

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present new diffusion phantoms dedicated to the study and validation of high-angular-resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) models. The phantom design permits the application of imaging parameters that are typically employed in studies of the human brain. The phantoms were made of small-diameter acrylic fibers, chose...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Poupon C,Rieul B,Kezele I,Perrin M,Poupon F,Mangin JF

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors introduce several sets of time-efficient gradient waveforms for applying isotropic diffusion weighting in NMR experiments. This creates signal attenuation that depends on the trace of the diffusion tensor and is therefore rotationally invariant. Numerical methods for the calculation of such gradient sets a...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wong EC,Cox RW,Song AW

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Application of phase rotation to the STRESS (=STEAM+PRESS) localization scheme, to shorten echo time, minimize J-coupling dephasing and estimate B1+ inhomogeneity. STRESS (=STEAM + PRESS) simultaneously refocuses and acquires the double spin echo (SE123 ) and stimulated echo (STE- ) pathways, combining PRESS-li...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Volovyk O,Tal A

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To explore the effects of high permittivity dielectric pads on the transmit and receive characteristics of a 3 Tesla body coil centered at the thighs, and their implications on image uniformity in receive array applications. THEORY AND METHODS:Transmit and receive profiles of the body coil with and without die...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Brink WM,Versluis MJ,Peeters JM,Börnert P,Webb AG

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:High-resolution turbo spin echo (TSE) images have demonstrated important details of carotid artery morphology; however, it is evident that pulsatile blood and wall motion related to the cardiac cycle are still significant sources of image degradation. Although ECG gating can reduce artifacts due to cardiac-induced pul...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Mendes J,Parker DL,Hulet J,Treiman GS,Kim SE

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:MRI-guided thermal ablations require reliable monitoring methods to ensure complete destruction of the diseased tissue while avoiding damage to the surrounding healthy tissue. Based on the fact that thermal ablations result in substantial changes in biomechanical properties, interventional MR elastography (MRE)...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Corbin N,Vappou J,Breton E,Boehler Q,Barbé L,Renaud P,de Mathelin M

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：:Certain kinds of artifacts have been reported when projection reconstruction (PR) techniques are used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). These will occur if the spacing between samples in k-space is too large. It has been suggested that PR requires finer k-space sampling than does two-dimensional Fourier reconstruct...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Joseph PM

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To present a time-efficient technique for banding reduction in balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) imaging using phase-cycled simultaneous multislice (SMS) acquisition with CAIPIRINHA (controlled aliasing in parallel imaging results in higher acceleration). THEORY:The proposed technique exploits the ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wang Y,Shao X,Martin T,Moeller S,Yacoub E,Wang DJ

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：: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：:We have noninvasively produced low-resolution, quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance images of cerebral blood flow in 2-ml voxels in eight cats. Typical signal-to-noise of 4 to 1 was obtained in cerebral voxels in 16.5-s epochs. Mean flow during normocapnia (paCO2 = 39 +/- 4 mm Hg) and hypercapnia (paCO2 = 62 +/- 4 ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Branch CA,Ewing JR,Helpern JA,Ordidge RJ,Butt S,Welch KM

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new approach to spin-echo imaging is presented in which the 180 degrees RF pulse refocuses two or more spin-echoes at different positions in the readout period. When simultaneous echo refocusing (SER) is implemented using multiple 180 degrees pulses, an undesirable mixing of stimulated echoes and primary echoes from...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Günther M,Feinberg DA

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron-mediated tissue damage is present in cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative diseases and neurotrauma. Brain microbleeds are often present in these maladies and are assuming increasing clinical importance. Because brain microbleeds present a source of pathologic iron to the brain, the noninvasive quantification of ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： McAuley G,Schrag M,Sipos P,Sun SW,Obenaus A,Neelavalli J,Haacke EM,Holshouser B,Madácsi R,Kirsch W

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Gradient imperfections remain a challenge in MRI, especially for sequences relying on long imaging readouts. This work aims to explore image reconstruction based on k-space trajectories predicted by an impulse response model of the gradient system. THEORY AND METHODS:Gradient characterization was performed twi...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Vannesjo SJ,Graedel NN,Kasper L,Gross S,Busch J,Haeberlin M,Barmet C,Pruessmann KP

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MMQ cell line is a unique prolactin-secreting rat pituitary cell line. MMQ cells entrapped in agarose gel threads are metabolically active, as determined by the uptake and phosphorylation of creatine and the maintenance of high energy phosphates for over 15 h. Forskolin activates the catalytic subunit of adenylyl ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Goger MJ,Login IS,Fernandez EJ,Grisham CM

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feasibility of MR subtraction imaging of lung ventilation using air against oxygen using a multiple inversion recovery half-Fourier single-shot turbo spin echo (MIR-HASTE) sequence was investigated. Eight healthy, nonsmoking volunteers (3 males, 5 females; from 27 to 48 years of age) were studied on a 1.5 T MR uni...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Mai VM,Chen Q,Bankier AA,Edelman RR

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique for reconstructing dynamic undersampled MRI data, termed "x-f choice," was developed and applied to dynamic contrast-enhanced MR angiography (DCE-MRA). Regular undersampling in k-t space (a hybrid of k-space and time) creates aliasing in the conjugate x-f space that must be resolved. When regions in the ob...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Malik SJ,Schmitz S,O'Regan D,Larkman DJ,Hajnal JV

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described for the correction of geometric distortions occurring in echo planar images. The geometric distortions are caused in large part by static magnetic field inhomogeneities, leading to pixel shifts, particularly in the phase encode direction. By characterizing the field inhomogeneities from a field m...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Jezzard P,Balaban RS

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To quantify the extraction fraction, E, for gadopentetate across tumor capillaries, R3230 adenocarcinomas were implanted in the mammary fat pads of seven rats. The value of E was determined by using a two-compartment tissue model in which the endothelial transfer coefficient, K(PS) (ml x min(-1) x cc(-1) of tissue), w...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Daldrup HE,Shames DM,Husseini W,Wendland MF,Okuhata Y,Brasch RC

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leakage of Gd-DTPA through a defective blood-brain barrier is measured quantitatively using dynamic MRI scanning, in which repeated scans are made after a bolus injection. Image registration artifacts are minimized; a dose of 0.1 mM/kg and an IR sequence enable enhancement to be measured quantitatively. The triexponen...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Tofts PS,Kermode AG

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homogeneous soft tissue, as regards its magnetic relaxation properties, is well-modeled by solutions of cross-linked protein (see Koenig and Brown, Prog. NMR Spectr. 22, 487 (1991)). Interactions at the solute-solvent interface alter the hydrodynamics of solvent water, and also couple the solute and solvent proton Zee...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Koenig SH,Brown RD 3rd

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intra-plaque hemorrhage (IPH) and lipid core, characteristics of rupture prone carotid plaques, are often visualized in vivo with MRI using T1 weighted gradient and spin echo, respectively. Increasing magnetic field strength may help to identify IPH and lipid core better. As a proof of concept, automatic segmentation ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： te Boekhorst BC,van 't Klooster R,Bovens SM,van de Kolk KW,Cramer MJ,van Oosterhout MF,Doevendans PA,van der Geest RJ,Pasterkamp G,van Echteld CJ

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T1 is often ill-determined. This means that an Ernst angle excitation often cannot be precisely defined for the simple pulse and acquire experiment. Here, published 31P T1 values of metabolites in human muscle, liver, heart, and brain are archived, some new data on heart and brain added, and overall confidence interva...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bottomley PA,Ouwerkerk R

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate a computationally efficient method for optimizing the Cramér-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) of quantitative sequences without using approximations or an analytical expression of the signal. METHODS:Automatic differentiation was applied to Bloch simulations and used to optimize several quantitative seque...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lee PK,Watkins LE,Anderson TI,Buonincontri G,Hargreaves BA

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of abdominal and thoracic dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI is often impaired by artifacts and misregistration caused by physiological motion. Breath-hold is too short to cover long acquisitions. A novel multipurpose reconstruction technique, entitled dynamic contrast-enhanced generalized reconstruction by in...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Filipovic M,Vuissoz PA,Codreanu A,Claudon M,Felblinger J

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wavelet packet analysis is a mathematical transformation that can be used to post-process images, for example, to remove image noise ("denoising"). At a very low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR <5), standard magnitude magnetic resonance images have skewed Rician noise statistics that degrade denoising performance. Since th...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wood JC,Johnson KM

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00