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：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：PURPOSE:Spiral readouts combine several favorable properties that promise superior net sensitivity for diffusion imaging. The purpose of this study is to verify the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) benefit of spiral acquisition in comparison with current echo-planar imaging (EPI) schemes. METHODS:Diffusion-weighted in vivo...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Lee Y,Wilm BJ,Brunner DO,Gross S,Schmid T,Nagy Z,Pruessmann KP

更新日期：2021-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Imaging of [2-13 C]lactate, a metabolic product of [2-13 C]pyruvate, is over considerable interest in hyperpolarized 13 C studies. However, artifact-free imaging of a J-coupled nuclear spin species can be challenging due to the peak-splitting induced by the spin-spin interactions. In this work, two new techniqu...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Datta K,Spielman D

更新日期：2021-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:A MR thermometry (MRT) method with field monitoring is proposed to improve the measurement of small temperature variations induced in brain MRI exams. METHODS:MR thermometry experiments were performed at 7 Tesla with concurrent field monitoring and RF heating. Images were reconstructed with nominal k-space tra...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Le Ster C,Mauconduit F,Mirkes C,Bottlaender M,Boumezbeur F,Djemai B,Vignaud A,Boulant N

更新日期：2021-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Phosphorus spectroscopy (31 P-MRS) is a proven method to probe cardiac energetics. Studies typically report the phosphocreatine (PCr) to adenosine triphosphate (ATP) ratio. We focus on another 31 P signal: inorganic phosphate (Pi), whose chemical shift allows computation of myocardial pH, with Pi/PCr providing ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Apps A,Valkovič L,Peterzan M,Lau JYC,Hundertmark M,Clarke W,Tunnicliffe EM,Ellis J,Tyler DJ,Neubauer S,Rider OJ,Rodgers CT,Schmid AI

更新日期：2021-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Cardiac stimulation (CS) limits to gradient coil switching speed are difficult to measure in humans; instead, current regulatory guidelines (IEC 60601-2-33) are based on animal experiments and electric field-to-dB/dt conversion factors computed for a simple, homogeneous body model. We propose improvement to thi...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Klein V,Davids M,Schad LR,Wald LL,Guérin B

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To improve the specific absorption rate (SAR) compression model capability in parallel transmission (pTx) MRI systems. METHODS:A k-means clustering method is proposed to group voxels with similar SAR behaviors in the scanned object, providing a controlled upper-bounded estimation of peak local SARs. This k-mea...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Mao X,Bari S,Love DJ,Rispoli JV

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Because of short signal lifetimes and respiratory motion, 3D lung MRI is still challenging today. Zero-TE (ZTE) pulse sequences offer promising solutions as they overcome the issue of short T 2 ∗ ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Boucneau T,Fernandez B,Besson FL,Menini A,Wiesinger F,Durand E,Caramella C,Darrasse L,Maître X

更新日期：2021-02-01 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

abstract：PURPOSE:To test octafluorocyclobutane (OFCB) as an inhalation contrast agent for fluorine-19 MRI of the lung, and to compare the image quality of OFCB scans with perfluoropropane (PFP) scans THEORY AND METHODS: After normalizing for the number of signal averages, a theoretical comparison between the OFCB signal-to-nois...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Shepelytskyi Y,Li T,Grynko V,Newman C,Hane FT,Albert MS

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To design, construct, and evaluate quantitative MR phantoms that mimic MRI signals from the liver with simultaneous control of three parameters: proton-density fat fraction (PDFF), R 2 ∗ ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Zhao R,Hamilton G,Brittain JH,Reeder SB,Hernando D

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We demonstrate the feasibility of MRI with missing-pulse steady-state free precession (MP-SSFP) in a 4T magnet with artificially degraded homogeneity. METHODS:T1 , T2 , and diffusion contrast of MP-SSFP was simulated with constant and alternate radiofrequency (RF) phase using an extended phase graph. To valida...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Kobayashi N,Parkinson B,Idiyatullin D,Adriany G,Theilenberg S,Juchem C,Garwood M

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Sickle cell anemia is a blood disorder that alters the morphology and the oxygen affinity of the red blood cells. Cerebral oxygen extraction fraction measurements using quantitative BOLD contrast have been used for assessing inadequate oxygen delivery and the subsequent risk of ischemic stroke in sickle cell an...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Eldeniz C,Binkley MM,Fields M,Guilliams K,Ragan DK,Chen Y,Lee JM,Ford AL,An H

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the impact of a different distortion correction (DC) method and patient geometry (sagittal balance) on the quality of spinal cord tractography rendering according to different tractography approaches. METHODS:Forty-four adults free of spinal cord diseases underwent cervical diffusion-weighted imaging...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Dauleac C,Bannier E,Cotton F,Frindel C

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To accelerate the acquisition of J-resolved proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (1 H-MRSI) data for high-resolution mapping of brain metabolites and neurotransmitters. METHODS:The proposed method used a subspace model to represent multidimensional spatiospectral functions, which significantly reduc...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Tang L,Zhao Y,Li Y,Guo R,Clifford B,El Fakhri G,Ma C,Liang ZP,Luo J

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a pulsed CEST magnetization-transfer method for rapidly acquiring relayed nuclear Overhauser enhancement (rNOE)-weighted images with magnetic transfer contrast (MTC) suppression at clinical field strength (3 T). METHODS:Using a pulsed CEST magnetization-transfer method with low saturation powers (B1...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Huang J,Han X,Chen L,Xu X,Xu J,Chan KWY

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adipose tissue as well as other depots of fat (triglycerides) are increasingly being recognized as active contributors to the human function and metabolism. In addition to the fat concentration, also the fatty acid chemical composition (FAC) of the triglyceride molecules may play an important part in diseases such as ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Peterson P,Trinh L,Månsson S

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This work describes the construction and evaluation of a bilateral 32-channel receive array for breast imaging at 7T. METHODS:The receive array consisted of 32 receive coils, placed on two 3D-printed hemispherical formers. Each side of the receive array consisted of 16 receive loops, each loop having a corresp...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Del Bosque R,Cui J,Ogier S,Cheshkov S,Dimitrov IE,Malloy C,Wright SM,McDougall M

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Intracranial and intraspinal compliance are parameters of interest in the diagnosis and prediction of treatment outcome in patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus and other forms of communicating hydrocephalus. A noninvasive method to estimate the spinal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pulse wave velocity (PWV) a...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Sonnabend K,Brinker G,Maintz D,Bunck AC,Weiss K

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop and evaluate a neural network-based method for Gibbs artifact and noise removal. METHODS:A convolutional neural network (CNN) was designed for artifact removal in diffusion-weighted imaging data. Two implementations were considered: one for magnitude images and one for complex images. Both models we...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Muckley MJ,Ades-Aron B,Papaioannou A,Lemberskiy G,Solomon E,Lui YW,Sodickson DK,Fieremans E,Novikov DS,Knoll F

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Oscillating gradient (OG) enables the access of short diffusion times for time-dependent diffusion MRI (dMRI); however, it poses several technical challenges for clinical use. This study proposes a 3D oscillating gradient-prepared gradient spin-echo (OGprep-GRASE) sequence to improve SNR and shorten acquisition...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wu D,Liu D,Hsu YC,Li H,Sun Y,Qin Q,Zhang Y

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The apparent propagator anisotropy (APA) is a new diffusion MRI metric that, while drawing on the benefits of the ensemble averaged propagator anisotropy (PA) compared to the fractional anisotropy (FA), can be estimated from single-shell data. THEORY AND METHODS:Computation of the full PA requires acquisition ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Aja-Fernández S,Tristán-Vega A,Jones DK

更新日期：2020-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Magnetization transfer ratio (MTR) histograms are used widely for the assessment of diffuse pathological changes in the brain. For broad clinical application, MTR scans should not only be fast, but confounding factors should also be minimized for high reproducibility. To this end, a 1-minute whole-brain spiral ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Afshari R,Santini F,Heule R,Meyer CH,Pfeuffer J,Bieri O

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of the study was to investigate whether incorrectly compensated eddy currents are the source of persistent X-nuclear spectroscopy and imaging artifacts, as well as methods to correct this. METHODS:Pulse-acquire spectra were collected for 1 H and X-nuclei (23 Na or 31 P) using the minimum TR permitted o...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： McLean MA,Hinks RS,Kaggie JD,Woitek R,Riemer F,Graves MJ,McIntyre DJO,Gallagher FA,Schulte RF

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the use of image registration for correcting respiratory motion in free breathing lung T1 mapping acquisition in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). THEORY AND METHODS:The method presented used image registration to synthetic images during postprocessing to remove respiratory motion. S...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Saunders LC,Eaden JA,Bianchi SM,Swift AJ,Wild JM

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a strategy for training a physics-guided MRI reconstruction neural network without a database of fully sampled data sets. METHODS:Self-supervised learning via data undersampling (SSDU) for physics-guided deep learning reconstruction partitions available measurements into two disjoint sets, one of wh...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Yaman B,Hosseini SAH,Moeller S,Ellermann J,Uğurbil K,Akçakaya M

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We aimed to develop a novel free-breathing cardiac diffusion tensor MRI (DT-MRI) approach, M2-MT-MOCO, capable of whole left ventricular coverage that leverages second-order motion compensation (M2) diffusion encoding and multitasking (MT) framework to efficiently correct for respiratory motion (MOCO). METHODS...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Nguyen CT,Christodoulou AG,Coll-Font J,Ma S,Xie Y,Reese TG,Mekkaoui C,Lewis GD,Bi X,Sosnovik DE,Li D

更新日期：2020-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To achieve highly accelerated submillimeter resolution T 2 -weighted functional MRI at 7T by developing a three-dimensional gradient and spin echo imaging (GRASE) with inner-volume sel...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Park S,Torrisi S,Townsend JD,Beckett A,Feinberg DA

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a postprocessing algorithm that corrects geometric distortions due to spatial variations of the static magnetic field amplitude, B0 , and effects from relaxation during signal acquisition in EPI. THEORY AND METHODS:An analytic, complex point-spread function is deduced for k-space trajectories of EPI...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Patzig F,Mildner T,Schlumm T,Müller R,Möller HE

更新日期：2020-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Over the last two decades, extended criteria have promoted an increased number of donor livers available for liver transplantation. But posttransplant graft loss is still a major concern. Macrovesicular hepatic steatosis (MHS) is recognized as the most significant prognostic histologic parameter in predicting p...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Chen G,Jiang J,Wang X,Yang M,Xie Y,Guo H,Tang H,Zhou L,Hu D,Kamel IR,Chen Z,Li Z

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To improve imaging performance for body MRI with a local transmit array at 10.5T, the geometry of a dipole antenna was optimized to achieve lower peak specific absorption rate (SAR) levels and a more uniform transmit profile. METHODS:Electromagnetic simulations on a phantom were used to evaluate the SAR and ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Steensma B,van de Moortele PF,Ertürk A,Grant A,Adriany G,Luijten P,Klomp D,van den Berg N,Metzger G,Raaijmakers A

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The linear change of the water proton resonance frequency shift (PRFS) with temperature is used to monitor temperature change based on the temporal difference of image phase. Here, the effect of motion-induced susceptibility artifacts on the phase difference was studied in the context of mild radio frequency hy...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Wu M,Mulder HT,Baron P,Coello E,Menzel MI,van Rhoon GC,Haase A

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Multi-echo spin-echo (MSE) transverse relaxometry mapping using multi-component models is used to study disease activity in neuromuscular disease by assessing the T2 of the myocytic component (T2water ). Current extended phase graph algorithms are not optimized for fat fractions above 50% and the effects of ina...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Keene KR,Beenakker JM,Hooijmans MT,Naarding KJ,Niks EH,Otto LAM,van der Pol WL,Tannemaat MR,Kan HE,Froeling M

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To propose and evaluate a deep learning model for rapid and accurate calculation of myocardial T1 /T2 values based on a previously proposed Bloch equation simulation with slice profile correction (BLESSPC) method. METHODS:Deep learning Bloch equation simulations (DeepBLESS) models are proposed for rapid and ac...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Shao J,Ghodrati V,Nguyen KL,Hu P

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Structure-guided total variation is a recently introduced prior that allows reconstruction of images using knowledge of the location and orientation of edges in a reference image. In this work, we demonstrate the advantages of a variant of structure-guided total variation known as directional total variation (D...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Teh I,McClymont D,Carruth E,Omens J,McCulloch A,Schneider JE

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop an accelerated, robust, and accurate diffusion MRI acquisition and reconstruction technique for submillimeter whole human brain in vivo scan on a clinical scanner. METHODS:We extend the ultra-high resolution diffusion MRI acquisition technique, gSlider, by allowing undersampling in q-space and radio...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Ramos-Llordén G,Ning L,Liao C,Mukhometzianov R,Michailovich O,Setsompop K,Rathi Y

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a deep learning-based Bayesian estimation for MRI reconstruction. METHODS:We modeled the MRI reconstruction problem with Bayes's theorem, following the recently proposed PixelCNN++ method. The image reconstruction from incomplete k-space measurement was obtained by maximizing the posterior possibili...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Luo G,Zhao N,Jiang W,Hui ES,Cao P

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:It has been shown, theoretically and in vivo, that using the Stejskal-Tanner pulsed-gradient, or linear tensor encoding (LTE), and in tissue exhibiting a "stick-like" diffusion geometry, the direction-averaged diffusion-weighted MRI signal at high b-values ( ...

journal_title：Magnetic resonance in medicine

authors： Afzali M,Aja-Fernández S,Jones DK

更新日期：2020-09-01 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