3D coronary artery imaging with phase reordering for improved scan efficiency.

abstract：PURPOSE:To use quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) to investigate changes in cartilage canals in the distal femur of juvenile goats after their surgical transection. METHODS:Chondronecrosis was surgically induced in the right medial femoral condyles of four 4-day-old goats. Both the operated and control knees we...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wang L,Nissi MJ,Toth F,Johnson CP,Garwood M,Carlson CS,Ellermann J

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multichannel transmission has the potential to improve many aspects of MRI through a new paradigm in excitation. In this study, multichannel transmission is used to address the effects that variations in B(0) homogeneity have on fat-saturation preparation through the use of the frequency, phase, and amplitude degrees ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Heilman JA,Derakhshan JD,Riffe MJ,Gudino N,Tkach J,Flask CA,Duerk JL,Griswold MA

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Either SENSE+CG or POCS-ICE methods can be used to correct for motion-induced phase errors in navigator-free multishot diffusion imaging. SENSE+CG has the advantage of a fast convergence, however, occasionally the convergence can be unstable, thus degrading the image quality. POCS-ICE has a stable convergence a...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Hu Z,Ma X,Truong TK,Song AW,Guo H

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：PURPOSE:A method for the quantification of perfusion in murine myocardium is demonstrated. The method allows for the reconstruction of perfusion maps on arbitrary time points in the heart cycle while addressing problems that arise due to the irregular heart beat of mice. METHODS:A flow-sensitive alternating inversion ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Gutjahr FT,Kampf T,Winter P,Meyer CB,Williams T,Jakob PM,Bauer WR,Ziener CH,Helluy X

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this high resolution magnetic resonance spectroscopic study of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) and Semliki Forest virus (SFV) infection of the Biozzi AB/H mouse, marked increases in the initially low levels of N-trimethyl compounds in the spinal cord were observed during probable demyelinating episode...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Preece NE,Amor S,Baker D,Gadian DG,O'Neill JK,Urenjak J

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy of the outcome in a diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) experiment depends on the acquisition scheme as well as the postprocessing methods used. In the present study, the DTI results acquired after applying different combinations of diffusion-weighted (DW) gradient orientations were initially compared. Then, s...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Arfanakis K,Cordes D,Haughton VM,Carew JD,Meyerand ME

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To present a new method that can simultaneously and efficiently measure T1 and B1 (+) maps using reference region variable flip angle (RR-VFA) imaging. METHODS:Assuming T1 relaxation time in a reference region such as fat is well characterized, and the reference region sufficiently covers smoothly varying B1 (...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sung K,Saranathan M,Daniel BL,Hargreaves BA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study undersampled projection reconstruction (PR) was used for rapid catheter imaging in the heart, employing steady-state free precession (SSFP) contrast. Active catheters and phased-array coils were used for combined imaging of anatomy and catheter position in swine. Real-time imaging of catheter position wa...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Peters DC,Lederman RJ,Dick AJ,Raman VK,Guttman MA,Derbyshire JA,McVeigh ER

更新日期：2003-02-01 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

abstract：:The idea of using parallel imaging to shorten the acquisition time by the simultaneous use of multiple receive coils can be adapted for the parallel transmission of a spatially-selective multidimensional RF pulse. As in data acquisition, a multidimensional RF pulse follows a certain k-space trajectory. Shortening this...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Katscher U,Börnert P,Leussler C,van den Brink JS

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baseline distortion in NMR spectroscopy, caused by the "dead time" between signal excitation and detection, makes quantitative interpretation difficult and is aesthetically displeasing. Here the use of the CLEAN algorithm for deconvolving the effect of signal dead time to produce a distortionless baseline is discussed...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： McKinnon GC,Burger C,Boesiger P

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has recently been adopted as an investigational tool in the field of neuroscience. The signal changes induced by brain activations are small ( approximately 1-2%) at 1.5T. Therefore, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the time series used to calculate the functional maps is...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Parrish TB,Gitelman DR,LaBar KS,Mesulam MM

更新日期：2000-12-01 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：:The relaxivities (R-values) of the gadolinium diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid (Gd(DTPA)2-) ions in a series of skim-milk solutions at 0-40% milk concentrations were measured using NMR spectroscopy. The R-value was found to be approximately linearly proportional to the concentration of the solid component in the m...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zheng S,Xia Y

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical spinal cord spectroscopy has the potential to add metabolic information to spinal cord MRI and improve the clinical evaluation and research investigation of spinal cord diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and intraspinal tumors. However, in vivo proton MR spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS) of the spinal cord is di...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Marliani AF,Clementi V,Albini-Riccioli L,Agati R,Leonardi M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of temporal echo multiplexing is defined and used to develop rapid biphasic spin-echo sequences for imaging the heart. Three imaging sequences, based on four-echo and two-echo multiplexing and rapid single echo (i.e., conventional spin-echo imaging), are compared. Preliminary results indicate that two-echo...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Parker DL,Caputo GR,Frederick PR

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When deoxygenated, blood behaves as an effective susceptibility contrast agent. Changes in brain oxygenation can be monitored using gradient-echo echo-planar imaging. With this technique, difference images also demonstrate that blood oxygenation is increased during periods of recovery from respiratory challenge. ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Turner R,Le Bihan D,Moonen CT,Despres D,Frank J

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel radio-frequency (RF) pulse design algorithm is presented that generates fast slice-selective excitation pulses that mitigate B+1 inhomogeneity present in the human brain at high field. The method is provided an estimate of the B+1 field in an axial slice of the brain and then optimizes the placement of sinc-li...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zelinski AC,Wald LL,Setsompop K,Alagappan V,Gagoski BA,Goyal VK,Adalsteinsson E

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the various techniques employed to quantify temperature changes by MR, proton resonance frequency (PRF) shift-based phase-difference imaging (PDI) is the most accurate and widely used. However, PDI is associated with various artifacts. Motivated by these limitations, we developed a new method to monitor temperature...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Paliwal V,El-Sharkawy AM,Du X,Yang X,Atalar E

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spin-echo images of 10 myocardial infarcts in nine mini-pigs were obtained at 30 h, 3 days, and approximately 10 days postinfarction. Infarcts were not detected at all at 30 h in five out of five cases examined. At 3 days postembolization (six cases) one infarct was certainly detected, whilst at 10 days (nine cases) a...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Checkley D,Loveday BE,Waterton JC,Zhu XP,Isherwood I

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop velocity-selective (VS) MR angiography (MRA) protocols for arteriography and venography with whole-brain coverage. METHODS:Tissue suppression using velocity-selective saturation (VSS) pulse trains is sensitive to radiofrequency field (B1 +) inhomogeneity. To reduce its sensitivity, we replaced the l...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Li W,Xu F,Schär M,Liu J,Shin T,Zhao Y,van Zijl PCM,Wasserman BA,Qiao Y,Qin Q

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) plays a central role in regulating vascular tone, blood flow, and microvascular permeability. Endothelial dysfunction, including eNOS dysfunction, is an early biomarker of vascular disease. This study aimed to show that myocardial T1 mapping during nitric oxide synthase ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Cui SX,Epstein FH

更新日期：2018-04-01 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 prebolus technique allows one to quantify perfusion in the human heart with a low variability by means of MRI. In this study the prebolus technique was used to determine quantitative perfusion values in the human heart under adenosine stress and to measure the myocardial perfusion reserve (MPR). Twelve healthy vol...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ritter C,Brackertz A,Sandstede J,Beer M,Hahn D,Köstler H

更新日期：2006-10-01 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:Proof-of-concept study of mapping renal blood flow vector field according to the inverse solution to a mass transport model of time resolved tracer-labeled MRI data. THEORY AND METHODS:To determine tissue perfusion according to the underlying physics of spatiotemporal tracer concentration variation, the mass t...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zhou L,Zhang Q,Spincemaille P,Nguyen TD,Morgan J,Dai W,Li Y,Gupta A,Prince MR,Wang Y

更新日期：2021-04-01 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：PURPOSE:To directly compare in vivo versus postmortem second-order motion-compensated spin-echo diffusion tensor imaging of the porcine heart. METHODS:Second-order motion-compensated spin-echo cardiac diffusion tensor imaging was performed during systolic contraction in vivo and repeated upon cardiac arrest by bariumc...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Stoeck CT,von Deuster C,Fleischmann T,Lipiski M,Cesarovic N,Kozerke S

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To present the results of the first human spinal cord in vivo MRI scans at 9.4T. METHODS:A human brain coil was used to image the human spinal cord at 9.4T. All anatomical images were acquired with a T2 *-weighted gradient-echo sequence. A comparison of the influence of four different B0 shimming routines on t...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Geldschläger O,Bosch D,Avdievich NI,Henning A

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00