Application of image registration to measurement of intervertebral rotation in the lumbar spine.

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the performance, in the presence of scanner instabilities, of three dynamic correction methods which integrate ∆B0 mapping into the chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) measurement and three established static ∆B0 -correction approaches. METHODS:A homogeneous phantom and five healthy voluntee...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Poblador Rodriguez E,Moser P,Dymerska B,Robinson S,Schmitt B,van der Kouwe A,Gruber S,Trattnig S,Bogner W

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel method for reducing the rf power requirements of selective pulses employed for z magnetization slice inversion in localized NMR spectroscopy is presented. Following slice preparation by the use of frequency-incremented sinc pulses, the slice gradient is reduced, which narrows the frequency width of the slice. ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Brereton IM,Brooks WM,Marshman MF,Field J,Doddrell DM

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pulse wave velocity (PWV) of aortic blood flow is considered a surrogate for aortic compliance. A new method using phase-contrast (PC)-MRI is presented whereby the spatial and temporal profiles of axial velocity along the descending aorta can be analyzed. Seventeen young healthy volunteers (the YH group), six olde...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Yu HY,Peng HH,Wang JL,Wen CY,Tseng WY

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A transrectal probe for 1H imaging and 31P MR spectroscopy of the prostate gland is described. The probe is covered with plastic and consists of an insectional portion containing an rf coil and a handle containing a tuning and matching circuit. Using this transrectal probe, 1H MR images and the first 31P MR spectra of...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Narayan P,Vigneron DB,Jajodia P,Anderson CM,Hedgcock MW,Tanagho EA,James TL

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time-dependent changes of T1 in the rotating frame (T1rho), diffusion, T2, and magnetization transfer contrast on cardiac arrest-induced global ischemia in rat were investigated. T1rho, as acquired with spin lock amplitudes >0.6 G, started to increase 10-20 sec after cardiac arrest followed by an increase within 3-4 m...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kettunen MI,Gröhn OH,Penttonen M,Kauppinen RA

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Myocardial effective relaxation time T2* is commonly regarded as a surrogate for myocardial tissue oxygenation. However, it is legitimate to assume that there are multiple factors that influence T2*. To this end, this study investigates the relationship between T2* and cardiac macromorphology given by left vent...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Huelnhagen T,Hezel F,Serradas Duarte T,Pohlmann A,Oezerdem C,Flemming B,Seeliger E,Prothmann M,Schulz-Menger J,Niendorf T

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most prostate MRI/MRS examinations are performed with an endorectal coil inflated with air, leading to an air-tissue interface that induces magnetic susceptibility gradients within the gland. Inflation of the coil with a barium sulfate suspension is described and compared to inflation with air or liquid perfluorocarbo...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Rosen Y,Bloch BN,Lenkinski RE,Greenman RL,Marquis RP,Rofsky NM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A kinetic analysis of water signal intensity changes measured in human visual cortex by PRESS localized 1H spectroscopy at 500 ms resolution with light-emitting diode (LED) goggle stimulation was used to determine vascular transit times for transitions between rest and activation. Monoexponential curve fitting was use...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Detre JA,Wang Z,Stecker MM,Zimmerman RA

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To improve ultrahigh field diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in the presence of inhomogeneous transmit B1 field by designing a novel semi-adiabatic single-refocused DWI technique. METHODS:A 180° slice-selective, adiabatic radiofrequency (RF) pulse of 4 ms duration was designed using the adiabatic Shinnar-Le Rou...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Dyvorne H,O'Halloran R,Balchandani P

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified Look-Locker acquisition using saturation recovery (MLLSR) for breath-held myocardial T(1) mapping is presented. Despite its reduced dynamic range, saturation recovery enables substantially higher imaging efficiency than conventional inversion recovery T(1) mapping because it does not require time for magnet...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Song T,Stainsby JA,Ho VB,Hood MN,Slavin GS

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To enable fast and flexible high-resolution four-dimensional (4D) MRI of periodic thoracic/abdominal motion for motion visualization or motion-corrected imaging. METHODS:We proposed a Cartesian three-dimensional k-space sampling scheme that acquires a random combination of k-space lines in the ky/kz plane. A p...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Küstner T,Würslin C,Schwartz M,Martirosian P,Gatidis S,Brendle C,Seith F,Schick F,Schwenzer NF,Yang B,Schmidt H

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To achieve optimal image quality and highest spatial resolution for inner ear imaging with a 3D gradient echo sequence, it is necessary to minimize susceptibility dephasing effects by using very short TE. Fractional RF pulses and echoes can yield short TE for moderate spatial resolution; however, for voxel size of les...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ying K,Schmalbrock P,Clymer B

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of the 13C label arising from [U-13C]succinate in rabbit renal proximal convoluted tubular (PCT) cells, incubated with [U-13C]succinate, was investigated by 13C NMR spectroscopy of the perchloric acid extracts of the cell pellets. The 13C label of [U-13C]succinate was predominantly metabolized into glutamate,...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Jans AW,Willem R

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method for efficiently processing MRS data acquired with phased-array coils is presented. The method consists of performing phase compensation (i.e., redefining the signal phase relative to a common reference) of the signals in the time domain prior to combining the signals. The resulting spectra are equivalent ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Brown MA

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiofrequency induced pacemaker lead tip heating is one of the main reasons magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is contraindicated for patients with pacemakers. The objective of this work was to evaluate the dependence of pacemaker lead tip heating during MRI scanning on the electrical conductivity of the medium surroun...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Langman DA,Goldberg IB,Judy J,Paul Finn J,Ennis DB

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton T(1rho)-dispersion MRI is demonstrated for indirect, in vivo detection of (17)O in the brain. This technique, which may be readily implemented on any clinical MRI scanner, is applied towards high-resolution, quantitative mapping of cerebral blood flow (CBF) in the rat by monitoring the clearance of (17)O-enrich...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Tailor DR,Roy A,Regatte RR,Charagundla SR,McLaughlin AC,Leigh JS,Reddy R

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new fully automatic algorithm for the segmentation of the brain and total intracranial cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from T(1)-weighted volume MRI scans of the head, called Exbrain v.2, is described. The algorithm was developed in the context of serial intracranial volumetry. A brain mask obtained using a previous versi...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lemieux L,Hammers A,Mackinnon T,Liu RS

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequential albumin-Gd-DTPA and Gd-DTPA dynamic enhancement studies were performed in an animal tumor model for the comparison of regional vascularity and permeability parameters measured by these two different sizes of contrast agents. The early albumin-Gd-DTPA enhancement arises from the vascular compartment, and the...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Su MY,Najafi AA,Nalcioglu O

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The focal underdetermined system solver (FOCUSS) was originally designed to obtain sparse solutions by successively solving quadratic optimization problems. This article adapts FOCUSS for a projection reconstruction MR imaging problem to obtain high resolution reconstructions from angular under-sampled radial k-space ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ye JC,Tak S,Han Y,Park HW

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:Time-resolved three-dimensional phase-contrast MRI is an important tool for physiological as well as clinical studies of blood flow in the heart and vessels. The application of the technique is, however, limited by the long scan times required. In this work, we investigate the feasibility of using spiral readouts to r...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sigfridsson A,Petersson S,Carlhäll CJ,Ebbers T

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：PURPOSE:We propose a constrained optimization approach for designing parallel transmit (pTx) pulses satisfying all regulatory and hardware limits. We study the trade-offs between excitation accuracy, local and global specific absorption rate (SAR), and maximum and average power for small flip-angle pTx (eight channels)...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Guérin B,Gebhardt M,Cauley S,Adalsteinsson E,Wald LL

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of the image noise for selective averaging of phase-encoding lines have been investigated. For a given acquisition time, selective averaging results in a signal-to-noise ratio penalty compared to averaging all lines equally. In addition, selective averaging yields a non uniform distribution of noise cha...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Mugler JP 3rd

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In past decades, much effort has been invested in developing therapies for spinal injuries. Lack of standardization of clinical read-out measures, however, makes direct comparison of experimental therapies difficult. Damage and therapeutic effects in vivo are routinely evaluated using rather subjective behavioral test...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Stieltjes B,Klussmann S,Bock M,Umathum R,Mangalathu J,Letellier E,Rittgen W,Edler L,Krammer PH,Kauczor HU,Martin-Villalba A,Essig M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We aim to leverage the power of deep-learning with high-fidelity training data to improve the reliability and processing speed of hemodynamic mapping with MR fingerprinting (MRF) arterial spin labeling (ASL). METHODS:A total of 15 healthy subjects were studied on a 3T MRI. Each subject underwent 10 runs of a m...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Fan H,Su P,Huang J,Liu P,Lu H

更新日期：2021-04-01 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：PURPOSE:To investigate whether saturation using existing methods developed for 3T imaging is feasible for clinical perfusion imaging at 7T, and to propose a new design of saturation pulse train for first-pass myocardial perfusion imaging at 7T. METHODS:The new design of saturation pulse train consists of four hyperbol...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Tao Y,Hess AT,Keith GA,Rodgers CT,Liu A,Francis JM,Neubauer S,Robson MD

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gradient-recalled echo-planar (T2*-weighted) imaging was used to noninvasively monitor regional blood oxygenation state changes in real time during transient episodes of focal ischemia in cat brain. Varying ischemic intervals (12 s to 30 min) were caused by middle cerebral artery occlusion. A rapid signal drop was not...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： De Crespigny AJ,Wendland MF,Derugin N,Kozniewska E,Moseley ME

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel center-out 3D trajectory for sampling magnetic resonance data is presented. The trajectory set is based on a single Fermat spiral waveform, which is substantially undersampled in the center of k-space. Multiple trajectories are combined in a "stacked cone" configuration to give very uniform sampling throughout...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Pipe JG,Zwart NR,Aboussouan EA,Robison RK,Devaraj A,Johnson KO

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00