Stream function optimization for gradient coil design.

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 perform quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) in negligible acquisition time and apply it to measuring iron-rich subcortical gray matter. METHODS:Whole brain QSM was performed using single-shot gradient echo-planar imaging (EPI) in under 7 seconds on a standard 1.5 T system for imaging brain iron in sub...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sun H,Wilman AH

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：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:Dipole antennas in ultrahigh field MRI have demonstrated advantages over more conventional designs. In this study, the fractionated dipole antenna is presented: a dipole where the legs are split into segments that are interconnected by capacitors or inductors. METHODS:A parameter study has been performed on di...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Raaijmakers AJ,Italiaander M,Voogt IJ,Luijten PR,Hoogduin JM,Klomp DW,van den Berg CA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton MRS (1 H MRS) provides noninvasive, quantitative metabolite profiles of tissue and has been shown to aid the clinical management of several brain diseases. Although most modern clinical MR scanners support MRS capabilities, routine use is largely restricted to specialized centers with good access to MR research...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wilson M,Andronesi O,Barker PB,Bartha R,Bizzi A,Bolan PJ,Brindle KM,Choi IY,Cudalbu C,Dydak U,Emir UE,Gonzalez RG,Gruber S,Gruetter R,Gupta RK,Heerschap A,Henning A,Hetherington HP,Huppi PS,Hurd RE,Kantarci K,Ka

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultra-fast application of the RARE experiment is described in detail, with special emphasis on its multifarious applications with preparation experiments that produce transverse magnetization. The factors affecting the temporal evolution of the magnetization during the experiment are described, and the implication...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Norris DG,Börnert P,Reese T,Leibfritz D

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Evaluate the usefulness of single-shot and of interleaved spatiotemporally encoded (SPEN) methods to perform diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) under various preclinical and clinical settings. METHODS:A formalism for analyzing SPEN DTI data is presented, tailored to account for the spatially dependent b-matrix wei...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Solomon E,Liberman G,Nissan N,Frydman L

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is frequently used to diagnose stroke. However, the origin of the observed reduction in the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) in the acute phase following ischemia is not well understood. Although cell swelling is considered to play an important role, it is unclear whether this can ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： van Pul C,Jennekens W,Nicolay K,Kopinga K,Wijn PF

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To characterize the q-space truncation and sampling on the spin-displacement probability density function (PDF) in diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI). METHODS:DSI data were acquired using the MGH-USC connectome scanner (Gmax  = 300 mT/m) with bmax  = 30,000 s/mm2 , 17 × 17 × 17, 15 × 15 × 15 and 11 × 11 × 11 gri...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Tian Q,Rokem A,Folkerth RD,Nummenmaa A,Fan Q,Edlow BL,McNab JA

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Passive MR tracking of catheters and guidewires is usually done by dynamically imaging a single thick slab, subtracting a baseline image, and combining the result with a previously acquired MR angiogram. In the in vitro and in vivo experiments reported here, it is demonstrated that this approach may be greatly simplif...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bakker CJ,Bos C,Weinmann HJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The goal of this work was to detect disease-related microstructural changes to the liver using magnetic resonance imaging. Chronic liver disease can cause microstructural changes in the liver that reduce plasma access to the perisinusoidal space--the site of exchange between the blood plasma and the hepatic par...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Beeman SC,Mandarino LJ,Georges JF,Bennett KM

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo 1H MRS can be used to detect and quantify the lactate resonance at 1.3 ppm provided that overlapping lipid resonances are eliminated. A homonuclear spectral editing method was developed to acquire uncontaminated 1H spectra of lactate with adiabatic pulses. An advantage of the adiabatic pulse sequence is the ab...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Schupp DG,Merkle H,Ellermann JM,Ke Y,Garwood M

更新日期：1993-07-01 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：:Localized 7Li MR point-resolved spectroscopy (PRESS) was developed as a technique to measure lithium (Li) concentration in rat brain in vivo. Localized 7Li spectra could be obtained at 4.7 T in a 0.7-ml voxel in rat brain over the entire therapeutic range of serum Li for humans. Localized 7Li spin-lattice (T1) and spi...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Komoroski RA,Pearce JM

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraplaque hemorrhage in atherosclerotic plaques has been associated with accelerated plaque growth as well as exacerbation of clinical symptoms. The identification of intraplaque hemorrhage using magnetic resonance imaging primarily relies on the detection of methemoglobin on T(1) weighted images. Current techniques...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wang J,Ferguson MS,Balu N,Yuan C,Hatsukami TS,Börnert P

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mumps virus-infected and normal newborn hamster brains were imaged with magnetic resonance (MR) within 24 h after birth and serially scanned. Hydrocephalus developed explosively on Day 6 postinfection and progressed until death occurred soon after Day 10. This study demonstrates the utility of MR in the investigation ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Narayana PA,Wolinsky JS,Jensen DJ

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis initially develops predominantly at the aortic root and carotid origin, where effective visualization in mice requires efficient cardiac and respiratory gating. The present study sought to first compare the high-resolution MRI gating performance of two digital gating strategies using: 1) separate cardi...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Alsaid H,Sabbah M,Bendahmane Z,Fokapu O,Felblinger J,Desbleds-Mansard C,Corot C,Briguet A,Crémillieux Y,Canet-Soulas E

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to detect salvageable peri-infarction myocardium by MRI in rats after infarction, using with a double contrast agent (CA) protocol at 7 Tesla. Intravascular superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) nanoparticles and an extracellular paramagnetic CA (Gd-DOTA) were used to characterize the peri-infa...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Chapon C,Lemaire L,Franconi F,Marescaux L,Legras P,Denizot B,Le Jeune JJ

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free induction decay signals are analyzed by fitting a model function directly in the time domain. No starting values are needed for linear model parameters, and omission of corrupted data points poses no problems. A significant gain of accuracy is achieved by imposing prior knowledge about the model parameters. ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： van der Veen JW,de Beer R,Luyten PR,van Ormondt D

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop methods for characterizing materials used in screen-printed MRI coils and improve signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) with new lower-loss materials. METHODS:An experimental apparatus was created to characterize dielectric properties of plastic substrates used in receive coils. Coils were fabricated by scree...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Corea JR,Lechene PB,Lustig M,Arias AC

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To study the feasibility of black-blood contrast in native T1 mapping for reduction of partial voluming at the blood-myocardium interface. METHODS:A saturation pulse prepared heart-rate-independent inversion recovery (SAPPHIRE) T1 mapping sequence was combined with motion-sensitized driven-equilibrium (MSDE) b...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Weingärtner S,Meßner NM,Zöllner FG,Akçakaya M,Schad LR

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：: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：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：:Cerebral metabolite concentrations and water content were measured by means of localized proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in 50 children, while metabolite peak ratios in short echo time spectra were evaluated in 173 examinations. Normative curves for normal development were established for two cerebral locations...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kreis R,Ernst T,Ross BD

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Segmentation of cardiac cine MRI data is routinely used for the volumetric analysis of cardiac function. Conventionally, 2D contours are drawn on short-axis (SAX) image stacks with relatively thick slices (typically 8 mm). Here, an acquisition/reconstruction strategy is used for obtaining isotropic 3D cine data...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Odille F,Bustin A,Liu S,Chen B,Vuissoz PA,Felblinger J,Bonnemains L

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Transverse relaxation time (T2 ) mapping with MRI has a plethora of clinical and research applications. Current T2 mapping techniques are based primarily on spin-echo (SE) relaxometry strategies that rely on the signal magnitude, and often suffer from lengthy acquisition times. In this work, we propose a phase-...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wang X,Hernando D,Reeder SB

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is presented for the detection of quadrupole splitting in tissue, where the spectral line splittings are typically unobservable. The method used is a study of the rate of rotation of the flip angle as a function of radiofrequency (rf) amplitude. Our results with samples of skeletal muscle and cat brain indica...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Joseph PM,Summers RM

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously developed eigenvector formalism is adapted to off-resonance in the transient response of quasiperiodic steady-state free precession (SSFP) sequences, including TrueFISP as a special case. The effective relaxation rates for essentially parallel and perpendicular deviations from the steady state are determi...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ganter C

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00