Theoretical analysis of the effect of imperfect slice profiles on tagging schemes for pulsed arterial spin labeling MRI.

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：:Three-dimensional (3D) coronary imaging has the potential to overcome problems resulting from vessel tortuosity and to reduce partial volume effects. With these techniques, however, acquisition times are long and respiratory motion artifacts problematical. This work describes the development of a method that applies p...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Jhooti P,Keegan J,Gatehouse PD,Collins S,Rowe A,Taylor AM,Firmin DN

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using NMR spectroscopy, we studied purified, human T lymphocytes in a serum-free medium. Purified cells were entrapped inside agarose beads and induced to proliferate by the mitogens phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate and ionomycin. T lymphocytes in standard culture and inside agarose beads exhibit comparable viability, ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bental M,Deutsch C

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Define criteria for selection of optimal flip angle sets for T1 estimation and evaluate effects on T1 mapping. THEORY AND METHODS:Flip angle sets for spoiled gradient echo-based T1 mapping were selected by minimizing T1 estimate variance weighted by the joint density of M0 and T1 in an initial acquisition. The...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lewis CM,Hurley SA,Meyerand ME,Koay CG

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Myocardial blood-flow simulation based on laws of fluid mechanics is a valuable tool for understanding tissue behavior. Our aim is to evaluate the ability of a porous-media flow model approach to reflect disturbed washout of contrast media (CM) from the myocardium as observed by cardiovascular MR. METHODS:A co...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Riazy L,Schaeffter T,Olbrich M,Schueler J,von Knobelsdorff-Brenkenhoff F,Niendorf T,Schulz-Menger J

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the feasibility of dynamic oxygen-enhanced MRI in a clinical setting. We hypothesized that dynamic oxygen enhancement can reflect the regional diffusing capacity of the lung. Ten patients with pulmonary emphysema and seven healthy volunteers were examined with a respiratory...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ohno Y,Hatabu H,Takenaka D,Van Cauteren M,Fujii M,Sugimura K

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the role of true diffusion and flow-related pseudodiffusion in cerebral blood flow (CBF) quantification using arterial spin labeling (ASL) with single-shot or segmented 3D gradient and spin echo (GRASE) readouts. THEORY:The extended phase graph (EPG) algorithm, originally designed to model the effe...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： He X,Wengler K,Schweitzer ME

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To present a double diffusion encoding MRI sequence on a clinical scanner to analyze micro-structure and micro-vasculature of tumors. METHODS:The sequence was tested on phantoms, asparaguses, and 2 tumors allografts in a rodent. Results were analyzed using an adapted VERDICT model to estimate microstructural p...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Duchêne G,Abarca-Quinones J,Leclercq I,Duprez T,Peeters F

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NMRD profiles, the magnetic field dependence of the water proton longitudinal relaxation rates, have been acquired for two new diphosphonate-modified GdDTPA complexes currently under evaluation as relaxation agents for the MRI detection of soft-tissue calcifications. Fresh dilute solutions show profiles identical to t...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Adzamli IK,Blau M

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:A method for collecting MRI data on a set of rotated trajectories that begin at the center of k-space is outlined. It is theoretically slightly faster, slightly less susceptible to off-resonance and motion-induced phase, and produces images with slightly better signal-to-noise ratio than methods using Archimedean spir...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Pipe JG

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional MRI is typically performed with the same orientation for radiofrequency slab excitation and slab select phase encoding. We introduce independent slab excitation and encoding to create a new degree of freedom in three-dimensional MRI, which is the angular relationship between the prescribed excitation...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Eissa A,Wilman AH

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop and validate a method for choosing the optimal two-dimensional CAIPIRINHA kernel for subtraction contrast-enhanced MR angiography (CE-MRA) and estimate the degree of image quality improvement versus that of some reference acceleration parameter set at R ≥ 8. METHODS:A metric based on patient-specifi...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Weavers PT,Borisch EA,Riederer SJ

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle triglycerides are markers for insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes. Recently, MR spectroscopy was adapted for in vivo measurement of triglycerides in animal models and for the characterization of new therapeutic approaches. Because of small MR spectroscopy voxel sizes used in skeletal muscles, surface...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Neumaier M,Niessen HG,Kaulisch T,Stiller D

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proton NMR relaxation and pulsed field gradient self-diffusion study of water in fibrin gels, plasma, and blood clots has been performed with special emphasis on the effect of the sol-gel and shrinkage transitions. Deuteron NMR in fibrin gels was also studied to supplement the proton data. It is shown that a measure...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Blinc A,Lahajnar G,Blinc R,Zidansek A,Sepe A

更新日期：1990-04-01 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：:Unusually high image contrast in vivo magnetic resonance imaging of the brain becomes observable at high magnetic fields when the blood oxygenation level is lowered. The cause of the contrast has been attributed to a magnetic susceptibility effect induced by paramagnetic deoxyhemoglobin in red cells. When the cylinder...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ogawa S,Lee TM

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the ongoing quest for faster imaging and higher spatial resolution, several methods have been developed to speed up data acquisition by incorporating prior information about the object being imaged. This study shows that many of these methods can be integrated into a single common equation. The unified framework pr...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Tsao J,Behnia B,Webb AG

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Compare the transmural distribution of forward creatine kinase reaction (kf,CK ) and ATP hydrolysis rate (kr,ATPase ) in the myocardium of normal porcine heart. Rate constants were extracted from partially relaxed spectra by applying the T1nom method, effectively reducing data acquisition time by up to an order...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Jang A,Xiong Q,Zhang P,Zhang J

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new ultrafast MR imaging method is proposed and tested, which enables whole-brain fMRI with a true temporal resolution of 1 sec. The method combines a 3D PRESTO pulse sequence with the concept of sensitivity-encoding with multiple receiver coils (SENSE). The so-called PRESTO-SENSE technique is demonstrated on a set ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Golay X,Pruessmann KP,Weiger M,Crelier GR,Folkers PJ,Kollias SS,Boesiger P

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Human connectomics necessitates high-throughput, whole-brain reconstruction of multiple white matter fiber bundles. Scaling up tractography to meet these high-throughput demands yields new fiber tracking challenges, such as minimizing spurious connections and controlling for gyral biases. The aim of this study ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sarwar T,Ramamohanarao K,Zalesky A

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Measurement of venous oxygenation (Yv) is a critical step toward quantitative assessment of brain oxygen metabolism, a key index in many brain disorders. The present study aims to develop a noninvasive, rapid, and reproducible method to measure Yv in a vessel-specific manner. THEORY:The method, T2-Relaxation-U...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Krishnamurthy LC,Liu P,Ge Y,Lu H

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：:A new parallel imaging technique was implemented which can result in reduced image acquisition times in MRI. MR data is acquired in parallel using an array of receiver coils and then reconstructed simultaneously with multiple processors. The method requires the initial estimation of the 2D sensitivity profile of each ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kyriakos WE,Panych LP,Kacher DF,Westin CF,Bao SM,Mulkern RV,Jolesz FA

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The myelin sheath, which is wrapped around the axons in the brain, can be affected by many diseases, resulting in cognitive and physical disability. Other work showed water in the myelin sheath has a T2 approximately 15 ms. The current standard technique to estimate the fraction of myelin water in vivo is to collect m...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Jones CK,Xiang QS,Whittall KP,MacKay AL

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To establish a series of relationships defining how muscle microstructure and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) are related. METHODS:The relationship among key microstructural features of skeletal muscle (fiber size, fibrosis, edema, and permeability) and the diffusion tensor were systematically simulated over ph...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Berry DB,Regner B,Galinsky V,Ward SR,Frank LR

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (18 F-FDG-PET) independently correlate with malignancy in breast cancer, but the relationship between their structural and metabolic metrics is not completely understood. This study spatially correlates diffusion, perfusio...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ostenson J,Pujara AC,Mikheev A,Moy L,Kim SG,Melsaether AN,Jhaveri K,Adams S,Faul D,Glielmi C,Geppert C,Feiweier T,Jackson K,Cho GY,Boada FE,Sigmund EE

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gradient-echo EPI, blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) functional MRI (fMRI) using parallel imaging (PI) is demonstrated at 7 Tesla with 16 channels, a fourfold 1D reduction factor (R), and fourfold maximal aliasing. The resultant activation detection in finger-tapping fMRI studies was robust, in full agreement w...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Moeller S,Van de Moortele PF,Goerke U,Adriany G,Ugurbil K

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：:Parallel magnetic resonance imaging in k-space such as generalized auto-calibrating partially parallel acquisition exploits spatial correlation among neighboring signals over multiple coils in calibration to estimate missing signals in reconstruction. It is often challenging to achieve accurate calibration information...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Park S,Park J

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00