abstract：:The signal decay with increasing b-factor at fixed echo time from brain tissue in vivo has been measured using a line scan Stejskal-Tanner spin echo diffusion approach in eight healthy adult volunteers. The use of a 175 ms echo time and maximum gradient strengths of 10 mT/m allowed 64 b-factors to be sampled, ranging ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Mulkern RV,Gudbjartsson H,Westin CF,Zengingonul HP,Gartner W,Guttmann CR,Robertson RL,Kyriakos W,Schwartz R,Holtzman D,Jolesz FA,Maier SE

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of 31P MR spectroscopy in the characterization and treatment of malignant human extremity tumors is reviewed and placed in the perspective of results obtained in murine sarcomas. Despite the now widespread acquisition of gradient localized spectral maps, the low spatial resolution that can be achieved ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Sijens PE

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in physiological parameters such as cerebral blood flow, cerebral blood volume, oxygen extraction, and the size and distribution of cerebral blood vessels, result in changes in the local concentration of deoxyhaemoglobin ([dHb]). The purpose of this study was to quantitatively investigate the dependence of the...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Punwani S,Ordidge RJ,Cooper CE,Amess P,Clemence M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review highlights various magnetic resonance image (MRI) segmentation algorithms that employ pattern recognition. The procedures are grouped into two categories: low- to intermediate-level, and high-level image processing. The former consists of grey level histogram analysis, texture definition, edge identificati...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Saeed N

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffusion measurements were performed on the N-acetyl aspartate (NAA) signal in in situ brains (in vivo and post-mortem) and on in vitro brain tissue at 37 degrees C using wide ranges of b-values (from 0 up to 4.5 x 10(6) s/cm2 and 35.8 x 10(6) s/cm2 for the in vivo and the in vitro cases, respectively). In vivo and i...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Assaf Y,Cohen Y

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outline is presented of metabolite-specific in vivo NMR spectroscopy (particularly in brain). It reviews from a physical spectroscopist's perspective, the need for and the methods of observation of, individual metabolite resonances. ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Allen PS,Thompson RB,Wilman AH

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) function in lipoprotein mixtures pose many difficulties by conventional biochemical methods. For instance, studies on the effects of CETP on the composition of apolipoprotein B containing lipoproteins (very low and low density lipoproteins) in lipoprotein mixtures a...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Korhonen A,Ala-Korpela M,Liinamaa MJ,Jokisaari J,Kesäniemi YA,Savolainen MJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyze Na+ fluxes in whole perfused hearts using Li+ as a Na+ congener and 7Li-nuclear magnetic resonance as a detection method. Hearts were equilibrated for 32 min with 15 mM LiCl added to P1-free Krebs-Henseleit buffer (intracellular space (ICS) [Li+] = 21.5 +/- 3.4 mM). Li+ efflux was ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Kupriyanov VV,Xiang B,Yang L,Deslauriers R

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the use of off-resonance saturation to further manipulate the blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) contrast of fMRI. A customized narrow bandwidth radiofrequency pulse, applied with a range of frequency offsets prior to selection of each slice, was designed and incorporated into a gradient ech...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Song AW,Wolff SD,Balaban RS,Jezzard P

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years considerable effort has been devoted to applying pattern recognition techniques to the complex task of data analysis in magnetic resonance spectroscopy. It may be argued that such techniques will facilitate putting MRS technology to practical clinical use. This paper reviews approaches of pattern recog...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： el-Deredy W

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method to extract shapes of bubble polyhedra from three-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance image data of foam has been developed. The method consists of four steps: first, to compute series of maximum intensity projection images from the three-dimensional NMR image data of foam to visualize the network structure...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Kashiwagi K,Kose K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, metabolic changes in the 79A/C3H, ME7/VM, ME7/C3H, 87V/VM and 22A/SV scrapie mouse models were investigated during the clinical phase of the disease, using in vitro proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. N-acetyl-aspartate was found to be significantly reduced in infected mice of the ME7/ C3H (...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Chung YL,Williams A,Chong A,Hope J,Williams SC,Bell JD

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution MR imaging (312 microns in plane resolution) and MR spectroscopy (0.36 cm3 nominal voxel) have been performed on human frontal cortex using a 3 in surface coil. Localized proton spectra have been obtained from contiguous 6 x 6 x 10 mm voxels using one-dimensional phase encoding, TR 2000 ms and TE 31 ms...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： López-Villegas D,Kimura H,Tunlayadechanont S,Lenkinski RE

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results are presented from an in vivo study of human skin in which a zig-zag surface coil together with a three-pulse Fourier Series Window (FSW) protocol have been used to obtain minimally contaminated 31P skin spectra of the posterior calf. Phantom experiments indicate that while the fall-off in the B1 field profile...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Cowie AG,Bastin ME,Manners DN,Hands LJ,Styles P,Radda GK

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent analysis of the optimization of magnetization transfer experiments to estimate first-order rate constants is extended to the design of experiments for measuring these constants and T1 when both parameters are initially unknown. When the number of measurement times is fixed, an optimal design will consist of a...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Katki H,Weiss GH,Kiefer JE,Taitelbaum H,Spencer RG

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1H MR spectroscopy was used to correlate the metabolite signals in 66 untreated metastatic brain tumors with the results of Gd-DTPA enhanced MRI. Cubic volumes containing brain metastases of lung cancer (n = 17), mammary carcinoma (n = 24), melanoma (n = 12) and those originating from other tumors (n = 13) were examin...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Sijens PE,Levendag PC,Vecht CJ,van Dijk P,Oudkerk M

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free cytosolic [Mg2+] can be assessed in vivo by 31P MRS from the chemical shift of beta-ATP which in turn depends on the fraction of total ATP complexed to Mg2+ ions. The reliability of these in vivo measurements depends on the availability of an appropriate in vitro calibration to determine the limits of chemical sh...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Iotti S,Frassineti C,Alderighi L,Sabatini A,Vacca A,Barbiroli B

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review several methods that have been developed to infer microstructural and physiological information about isotropic and anisotropic tissues from diffusion weighted images (DWIs). These include Diffusion Imaging (DI), Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI), isotropically weighted imaging, and q-space imaging. Just as DI ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Basser PJ

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relaxation properties of water and metabolites were measured in rat brain following the occlusion of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) with localized 1H MRS. The PRESS sequence was employed to select volumes of 39 microL in the ischemic and the contralateral hemisphere. T1 and T2 relaxation times and peak intensiti...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： van der Toorn A,Dijkhuizen RM,Tulleken CA,Nicolay K

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study the conjugated macromolecular ligand, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA)-amide-dextran, was synthesized by attaching DTPA to the dextran macromolecule (M(r) approximately 6000) by a covalent amide bond. Subsequently, DTPA-amide-dextran was complexed with either of the two lanthanide metal ions dys...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Chu WJ,Elgavish GA

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:31P NMR spectra were obtained from sera of 22 healthy volunteers and 20 patients with multiple myeloma at the time of diagnosis and repeated up to five times during therapy. All spectra consisted of a Pi peak (used as a reference peak) and two peaks from phospholipids (PL): one peak due to phosphatidylethanolamine and...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Kuliszkiewicz-Janus M,Baczyński S

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tests the hypothesis that brief periods of ischemia result in an increase in myocardial lipids during early reperfusion. We conducted 1H NMR spectroscopy to serially measure myocardial lipids before and after regional ischemia. Localized 1H NMR spectra (spatial resolution of 1.25 mm) were obtained using a o...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Balschi JA,Hetherington HP,Bradley EL Jr,Pohost GM

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transverse relaxation rates R2 and R2* were measured at 3 T in the substantia nigra of the midbrain of adult normal human controls. The relaxation rate arising from magnetic inhomogeneities, R2', was calculated from the relationship R2* = R2 + R2'. No significant differences were found for any parameters between l...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Helpern JA,Ordidge RJ,Gorell JM,Deniau JC,Welch KM

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite 40 years of NMR spectroscopy and 10 years of in vivo spectroscopy in humans, the break-even point for routine clinical diagnosis has not yet been reached. Obviously there are many factors that stimulate but also restrict the use of proton NMR spectroscopy in clinical routine. ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Moser E

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The significance of NMR water diffusion measurements performed at short diffusion times (< 10 ms) for brain tissue is examined. An apparent restriction to diffusion for both healthy and cytotoxically edematous tissue is shown: cytotoxic edema lengthens the diffusion time at which this phenomenon is visible. The dramat...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Norris DG,Niendorf T,Leibfritz D

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose metabolism in control and estrogen stimulated rat uteri was investigated using 13C NMR spectroscopy. By employing an NMR adapted perifusion system, and developing protocols and methods based on the application of [1-13C]glucose labeling, it was possible to measure, with a temporal resolution of 10 min, the kin...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Shinkarenko L,Kaye AM,Degani H

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent (BOLD) contrast in the detection of human brain activation was compared between spin-echo and gradient-echo echo-planar sequences at 1.5 T. Time course series of spin-echo and gradient-echo images containing the primary motor cortex were collected during rest (no finger...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Bandettini PA,Wong EC,Jesmanowicz A,Hinks RS,Hyde JS

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modified gradient-echo MR techniques were applied to study the effects of inflow on functional brain imaging studies using visual and motor cortex stimulation. The results demonstrate that the large signal changes, seen in previously reported gradient-echo studies at 1.5-2.0 T, are dominated by direct inflow effects, ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Duyn JH,Moonen CT,van Yperen GH,de Boer RW,Luyten PR

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 50% of cancers fail to respond to any individual treatment and tumour follow-up after treatment plays a major role in routine therapy planning and pharmacological research. Today, MRS is the only technological approach providing non-invasive access to tumour biochemistry. Ten years ago, expectations were rai...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： de Certaines JD,Larsen VA,Podo F,Carpinelli G,Briot O,Henriksen O

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The steady-state distribution of the general anesthetic halothane in different rat tissues, including a renal adenocarcinoma with and without hyperthermia treatment, has been evaluated by in vivo 19F NMR spectroscopy. The 19F spectra of halothane (which is a hydrophobic probe) from within tissue show differences in th...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Burt CT,Moore RR,Roberts MF

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of cerebral water as an internal intensity standard for the quantitation of spatially localized proton spectra of the human brain is investigated. The method is validated on standard samples of N-acetyl aspartate (NAA) and lactate, and possible sources of error are discussed. Using the STEAM pulse sequence, co...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Barker PB,Soher BJ,Blackband SJ,Chatham JC,Mathews VP,Bryan RN

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show how quantitative information about proton handling in human skeletal muscle in exercise and recovery can be obtained by 31P MRS and illustrate this with data from metabolic disorders. Proton production, proton efflux and passive buffering can be distinguished by comparing changes in [phosphocreatine] and pH at...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Kemp GJ,Taylor DJ,Styles P,Radda GK

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel iodoacetamide label 4-perfluoro-tert-butyl-phenyliodoacetamide (PFP) containing nine fluorine atoms in equivalent positions has been synthesized. It provides a homogeneous 19F NMR resonance line which can be detected with high sensitivity when coupled to proteins. As an example, the sulfhydryl groups of actin ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Kalbitzer HR,Rohr G,Nowak E,Goody RS,Kuhn W,Zimmermann H

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally accepted that tumour microcirculation, blood flow, oxygen and nutrient supply, tissue pH distribution, and the bioenergetic status--factors which are usually closely linked and which define the so-called metabolic microenvironment--can markedly influence the therapeutic response of malignant tumours to...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Vaupel P

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor metabolism is directly coupled to tumor blood flow (TBF) and both metabolism and blood flow may be determinants of tumor response to treatment. Since NMR has been used extensively to monitor tumor metabolism noninvasively, development of NMR-based methods for TBF measurement was motivated by the desire to examin...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Evelhoch JL

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human tumor and skeletal muscle tissue was studied by means of in vivo 1H, 31P, and 13C MRS. The examinations were performed with a 1.5 T whole-body MR scanner equipped with a second RF system. Localized 1H and broadband proton-decoupled 31P and 13C MR spectra were obtained in measurement times of 5, 10 and 33 min, re...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Bachert P,Bellemann ME,Layer G,Koch T,Semmler W,Lorenz WJ

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantification of metabolites is a goal of many biomedical NMR studies. To obtain absolute measurements of metabolite concentrations is often both difficult and time-consuming. In this paper a method for determining metabolite concentrations directly is described and validated. It is applicable to studies of amphibian...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Wray S,Wilkie DR

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a reliable, reproducible model of hypoxia in the gerbil. 1H and 31P NMR spectroscopy demonstrates that cerebral energy metabolism is very resistant to hypoxia. Cerebral blood flow (measured by hydrogen clearance) began to increase when the arterial oxygen tension (paO2) was reduced to 40-50 mm Hg, an...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Allen K,Busza AL,Crockard HA,Gadian DG

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative analysis of extracts from two Ehrlich ascites tumour cell lines (Lettre cells) by 19F NMR in vitro demonstrated that one Lettre cell line (designated LLM) metabolized 30-50% less 5-fluorouracil to 5-fluoronucleotides when compared to the other cell line (designated LHM). HPLC analysis of these cellular ex...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： McSheehy PM,Maxwell RJ,Griffiths JR

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Net ATP production rates in exercising human muscle were calculated from 31P MRS kinetic data collected with 1-8 s time resolution. During the exercise, the muscle output was measured using a force transducer. Muscle output (force/unit volume) is then divided by the calculated net ATP used to estimate the ATP cost of ...

journal_title：NMR in biomedicine

authors： Boska M

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00