Magnetic resonance angiography with hyperpolarized 129Xe dissolved in a lipid emulsion.

abstract：:An array of 33 prototype polypeptides was examined as putative contrast agents that can be distinguished from each other based on the chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) mechanism. These peptides were chosen based on predictions of the chemical exchange rates of exchangeable amide, amine, and hydroxyl protons...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： McMahon MT,Gilad AA,DeLiso MA,Berman SM,Bulte JW,van Zijl PC

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to a delayed echo-formation, echo-shifted gradient echo sequences (ES-GRE) allow for an enhanced T(2)*-weighting at short repetition times. While they are in use with and without RF spoiling, analytical solutions are only known for the latter. The signal formation in the former could only be assessed in approximat...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ganter C

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lactate editing sequence based on the use of spin-locking pulses with surface coils is described. The sequence retains more than 90% of the available lactate magnetization and suppresses at least 95% of the lipid signal in a single scan and ca. 99.5% after a simple two step cycle. The technique allows simultaneous o...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bourgeois D,Kozlowski P

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo effective relaxation rates in normal rat liver were evaluated for four dextran coated iron oxide agents: monocrystalline iron oxide nanocolloid (MION) with a mean particle diameter of 3.9 nm, a polycrystalline agent (PION) with a larger mean diameter of 12 nm, and these two agents labeled with the asialofetuin...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Mandeville JB,Moore J,Chesler DA,Garrido L,Weissleder R,Weisskoff RM

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To optimize and investigate the influence of bipolar gradients for flow suppression in metabolic quantification of hyperpolarized 13 C chemical shift imaging (CSI) of mouse liver at 9.4 T. METHODS:The trade-off between the amount of flow suppression using bipolar gradients and T2* effect from static spins was ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lee H,Lee J,Joe E,Yang S,Song JE,Choi YS,Wang E,Joo CG,Song HT,Kim DH

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuously moving table (CMT) MRI is a new method that is capable of generating 3D, seamless, large field-of-view (FOV) images by acquiring readouts along the patient superior-inferior axis as the subject is translated through the scanner. For applications that require artifact-free images, such as arterial-phase co...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sabati M,Lauzon ML,Mahallati H,Frayne R

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1H MR spectra were recorded from human gastrocnemius muscle at 63.86 MHz using the body coil of the Signa scanner as transmitter and a 3-in. surface coil as receiver. The fat content of the muscle was quantified relative to that of water in a selected volume or slice. The fat/water ratio was 0.05-0.07 for normal muscl...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bárány M,Venkatasubramanian PN,Mok E,Siegel IM,Abraham E,Wycliffe ND,Mafee MF

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elastase-induced changes in lung morphology and function were detected in spontaneously breathing rats using conventional proton MRI at 4.7 T. A single dose of porcine pancreatic elastase (75 U/100 g body weight) or vehicle (saline) was administered intratracheally (i.t.) to male Brown Norway (BN) rats. MRI fluid sign...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Quintana HK,Cannet C,Zurbruegg S,Blé FX,Fozard JR,Page CP,Beckmann N

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to develop MRI methods for the evaluation of tumor angiogenesis (new blood vessel formation), MRI-derived cerebral blood volume (CBV) information has been compared to histologic measures of microvessel density (MVD). Although MVD is a standard marker of angiogenesis, it is not a direct correlate of the vo...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Pathak AP,Schmainda KM,Ward BD,Linderman JR,Rebro KJ,Greene AS

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pattern recognition techniques (factor analysis and neural networks) were used to investigate and classify human brain tumors based on the 1H NMR spectra of chemically extracted biopsies (n = 118). After removing information from lactate (because of variable ischemia times), unsupervised learning suggested that the sp...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Maxwell RJ,Martínez-Pérez I,Cerdán S,Cabañas ME,Arús C,Moreno A,Capdevila A,Ferrer E,Bartomeus F,Aparicio A,Conesa G,Roda JM,Carceller F,Pascual JM,Howells SL,Mazucco R,Griffiths JR

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a flexible fast spin echo (FSE) triple-echo Dixon (FTED) technique. METHODS:An FSE pulse sequence was modified by replacing each readout gradient with three fast-switching bipolar readout gradients with minimal interecho dead time. The corresponding three echoes were used to generate three raw image...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Son JB,Hwang KP,Madewell JE,Bayram E,Hazle JD,Low RN,Ma J

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a 256-channel dense-array electroencephalography (dEEG) sensor net (the Ink-Net) using high-resistance polymer thick film (PTF) technology to improve safety and data quality during simultaneous dEEG/MRI. METHODS:Heating safety was assessed with temperature measurements in an anthropomorphic head pha...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Poulsen C,Wakeman DG,Atefi SR,Luu P,Konyn A,Bonmassar G

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for volume selective proton spectroscopy is presented based on a multiecho sequence with short refocusing interval tcp. It is demonstrated, that by appropriate choice of tcp on the order of 4-6 ms, signals from overlapping multiplets like the glutamine and glutamate (Glu/Gln) resonances in spectra of the huma...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hennig J,Thiel T,Speck O

更新日期：1997-06-01 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：PURPOSE:Continuously moving table (CMT) MRI is a high throughput technique that has multiple applications in whole-body imaging. In this work, CMT MRI based on golden angle (GA, 111.246° azimuthal step) radial sampling is developed at 3 Tesla (T), with the goal of increased flexibility in image reconstruction using arb...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sengupta S,Smith DS,Welch EB

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The theoretical description of steady state free precession (SSFP) sequences is generally well accepted and unquestioned, although it is based on instantaneously acting radiofrequency (RF) pulses. In practice, however, all excitation processes are finite, thereby questioning the overall validity of the common SSFP sig...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Bieri O,Scheffler K

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At TE values of 136 ms, it has recently been shown that the lactate methyl signal, when obtained with a stimulated-echo (STE) sequence, is modulated at the zero-quantum (ZQ) frequency when TM is varied. Here we describe an additional modulation of the ZQ lactate signal, due to spin-spin coupling, that results in a 10-...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sotak CH,Alger JR

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Image reconstruction of tagged cardiac MR images using complementary spatial modulation of magnetization (CSPAMM) requires the subtraction of two complex datasets to remove the untagged signal. Although the resultant images typically have sharper and more persistent tags than images formed without complementary taggin...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： NessAiver M,Prince JL

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantification of peak velocity is important in the assessment of stenotic flow jets in patients with congenital heart disease. Phase-contrast magnetic resonance underestimates peak velocities. Hence, clinically Doppler ultrasound is used as the reference standard for assessing stenoses. It is possible to accurately m...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Steeden JA,Jones A,Pandya B,Atkinson D,Taylor AM,Muthurangu V

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional magnetization-prepared (MP) MR angiography (MRA) was applied to the carotid and vertebral arteries by using ECG triggering, a slab selective RF inversion pulse, centric phase encoding and acquisition during diastole. Both theoretically and experimentally, the MP MRA sequence was shown to perform well...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wilman AH,Huston J 3rd,Riederer SJ

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single slice of z-magnetization is used to generate high-speed images. The slice selection step is achieved using two sin-sinc pulses. This procedure eliminates the need for continual slice gradient reversal, a requirement for the FLASH technique. The RAPID imaging method has less inherent T1 and/or T2 dependence th...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Brooks WM,Brereton IM,Doddrell DM

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The oxygen extraction fraction (OEF) is an important biomarker for tissue-viability. MRI enables noninvasive estimation of the OEF based on the blood-oxygenation-level-dependent (BOLD) effect. Quantitative OEF-mapping is commonly applied using least-squares regression (LSR) to an analytical tissue model. Howeve...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Domsch S,Mürle B,Weingärtner S,Zapp J,Wenz F,Schad LR

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic imaging strategies often involve updating certain areas of k-space (i.e., the low spatial frequencies) more frequently than others. However, important dynamic signal changes may occur anywhere in k-space. In this study, a dynamic k-space sampling analysis method was developed to determine the energy error asso...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wu Y,Alexander AL

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：: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：PURPOSE:Magnetic resonance imaging is a promising alternative to computed tomography for lung imaging. However, organ motion and poor signal-to-noise ratio, arising from short T2*, impair image quality. To alleviate these issues, a new retrospective gating method was implemented and tested with an ultra-short echo time...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Delacoste J,Chaptinel J,Beigelman-Aubry C,Piccini D,Sauty A,Stuber M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motion-sensitive phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance elastography are applied for the measurement of volumetric strain and tissue compressibility in human brain. Volumetric strain calculated by the divergence operator using a biphasic effective-medium model is related to dilatation and com...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hirsch S,Klatt D,Freimann F,Scheel M,Braun J,Sack I

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical shift-based multipoint water-fat separation methods have been applied in balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) sequences because of the high signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) attainable. In this approach the echo formation is approximated to occur concurrently for both water and fat at an echo time (TE) equ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kim H,Pinus AB,Wang J,Murphy PS,Constable RT

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phase-contrast (PC) MRI is a noninvasive method for imaging blood and tissue velocity. PC experiments are typically segmented into many cardiac cycles in order to obtain sufficient spatial and temporal resolution, and thus require a gating signal to properly combine the data from multiple cardiac cycles. Although the ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Thompson RB,McVeigh ER

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:T2 -weighted sequences are particularly sensitive to the radiofrequency (RF) field inhomogeneity problem at ultra-high-field because of the errors accumulated by the imperfections of the train of refocusing pulses. As parallel transmission (pTx) has proved particularly useful to counteract RF heterogeneities, u...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Gras V,Mauconduit F,Vignaud A,Amadon A,Le Bihan D,Stöcker T,Boulant N

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00