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Kim D, Cauley SF, Nayak KS, Leahy RM, Haldar JP. Region-optimized virtual (ROVir) coils: Localization and/or suppression of spatial regions using sensor-domain beamforming. Magn Reson Med 2021; 86:197-212. [PMID: 33594732 PMCID: PMC8248187 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.28706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2020] [Revised: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 01/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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PURPOSE In many MRI scenarios, magnetization is often excited from spatial regions that are not of immediate interest. Excitation of uninteresting magnetization can complicate the design of efficient imaging methods, leading to either artifacts or acquisitions that are longer than necessary. While there are many hardware- and sequence-based approaches for suppressing unwanted magnetization, this paper approaches this longstanding problem from a different and complementary angle, using beamforming to suppress signals from unwanted regions without modifying the acquisition hardware or pulse sequence. Unlike existing beamforming approaches, we use a spatially invariant sensor-domain approach that can be applied directly to raw data to facilitate image reconstruction. THEORY AND METHODS We use beamforming to linearly mix a set of original coils into a set of region-optimized virtual (ROVir) coils. ROVir coils optimize a signal-to-interference ratio metric, are easily calculated using simple generalized eigenvalue decomposition methods, and provide coil compression. RESULTS ROVir coils were compared against existing coil-compression methods, and were demonstrated to have substantially better signal suppression capabilities. In addition, examples were provided in a variety of different application contexts (including brain MRI, vocal tract MRI, and cardiac MRI; accelerated Cartesian and non-Cartesian imaging; and outer volume suppression) that demonstrate the strong potential of this kind of approach. CONCLUSION The beamforming-based ROVir framework is simple to implement, has promising capabilities to suppress unwanted MRI signal, and is compatible with and complementary to existing signal suppression methods. We believe that this general approach could prove useful across a wide range of different MRI applications.
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- Daeun Kim
- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.,Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Deparment of Radiology, A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.,Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.,Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.,Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Fang S, Bai HX, Fan X, Li S, Zhang Z, Jiang T, Wang Y. A Novel Sequence: ZOOMit-Blood Oxygen Level-Dependent for Motor-Cortex Localization. Neurosurgery 2020; 86:E124-E132. [PMID: 31642505 DOI: 10.1093/neuros/nyz441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2019] [Accepted: 08/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Use of conventional blood oxygen level-dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging (conventional-BOLD-fMRI) presents challenges in accurately identifying the hand-motor cortex when a glioma involves the ipsilateral hand-knob. Zoomed imaging technique with parallel transmission (ZOOMit)-BOLD is a novel sequence allowing high spatial resolution with a relatively small field of view that may solve this problem. OBJECTIVE To compare the accuracy of ZOOMit-BOLD and conventional-BOLD in hand-motor cortex identification. METHODS A total of 20 patients with gliomas involving the sensorimotor cortex were recruited to identify the hand-motor cortex by both ZOOMit-BOLD and conventional-BOLD. Based on whether the entire or partial glioma directly invaded (was located within) the hand-knob or indirectly affected it by proximity, patients were placed into the involved or uninvolved groups, respectively. Direct cortical stimulation was applied intraoperatively to verify the location of the hand-motor cortex. Overlap indices were used to evaluate the accuracy of the hand-motor cortex identification. An overlap index equal to 0, indicating lack of overlap, was classified as inaccurate classification. RESULTS The accuracy of motor-cortex identification with ZOOMit-BOLD was 100% compared to only 65% with conventional-BOLD. The average overlap index yielded by ZOOMit-BOLD was higher than that of conventional-BOLD, regardless of whether gliomas directly invaded the hand-knob (P = .008) or not (P = .004). The overlap index in the involved group was significantly lower than that in the uninvolved group with both ZOOMit-BOLD (P = .002) and conventional-BOLD (P < .001). CONCLUSION ZOOMit-BOLD may potentially replace conventional-BOLD to identify the hand-motor cortex, particularly in cases in which gliomas directly invade the hand-knob.
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- Shengyu Fang
- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Rhode Island Hospital and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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- Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Functional Neuroradiology Center, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders Brain Tumor Center, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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Balasubramanian M, Mulkern RV, Neil JJ, Maier SE, Polimeni JR. Probing in vivo cortical myeloarchitecture in humans via line-scan diffusion acquisitions at 7 T with 250-500 micron radial resolution. Magn Reson Med 2020; 85:390-403. [PMID: 32738088 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.28419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2019] [Revised: 06/15/2020] [Accepted: 06/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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PURPOSE The goal of this study was to measure diffusion signals within the cerebral cortex using the line-scan technique to achieve extremely high resolution in the radial direction (ie, perpendicular to the cortical surface) and to demonstrate the utility of these measurements for investigating laminar architecture in the living human brain. METHODS Line-scan diffusion data with 250-500 micron radial resolution were acquired at 7 T on 8 healthy volunteers, with each line prescribed perpendicularly to primary somatosensory cortex (S1) and primary motor cortex (M1). Apparent diffusion coefficients, fractional anisotropy values, and radiality indices were measured as a function of cortical depth. RESULTS In the deep layers of S1, we found evidence for high anisotropy and predominantly tangential diffusion, with low anisotropy observed in superficial S1. In M1, moderate anisotropy and predominantly radial diffusion was seen at almost all cortical depths. These patterns were consistent across subjects and were conspicuous without averaging data across different locations on the cortical sheet. CONCLUSION Our results are in accord with the myeloarchitecture of S1 and M1, known from prior histology studies: in S1, dense bands of tangential myelinated fibers run through the deep layers but not the superficial ones, and in M1, radial myelinated fibers are prominent at most cortical depths. This work therefore provides support for the idea that high-resolution diffusion signals, measured with the line-scan technique and receiving a boost in SNR at 7 T, may serve as a sensitive probe of in vivo laminar architecture.
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- Mukund Balasubramanian
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Zeng DY, Baron CA, Malavé MO, Kerr AB, Yang PC, Hu BS, Nishimura DG. Combined T 2 -preparation and multidimensional outer volume suppression for coronary artery imaging with 3D cones trajectories. Magn Reson Med 2020; 83:2221-2231. [PMID: 31691350 PMCID: PMC7047567 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.28057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2019] [Revised: 10/08/2019] [Accepted: 10/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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PURPOSE To develop a modular magnetization preparation sequence for combined T2 -preparation and multidimensional outer volume suppression (OVS) for coronary artery imaging. METHODS A combined T2 -prepared 1D OVS sequence with fat saturation was defined to contain a 90°-60 180°60 composite nonselective tip-down pulse, two 180°Y hard pulses for refocusing, and a -90° spectral-spatial sinc tip-up pulse. For 2D OVS, 2 modules were concatenated, selective in X and then Y. Bloch simulations predicted robustness of the sequence to B0 and B1 inhomogeneities. The proposed sequence was compared with a T2 -prepared 2D OVS sequence proposed by Luo et al, which uses a spatially selective 2D spiral tip-up. The 2 sequences were compared in phantom studies and in vivo coronary artery imaging studies with a 3D cones trajectory. RESULTS Phantom results demonstrated superior OVS for the proposed sequence compared with the Luo sequence. In studies on 15 healthy volunteers, the proposed sequence had superior image edge profile acutance values compared with the Luo sequence for the right (P < .05) and left (P < .05) coronary arteries, suggesting superior vessel sharpness. The proposed sequence also had superior signal-to-noise ratio (P < .05) and passband-to-stopband ratio (P < .05). Reader scores and reader preference indicated superior coronary image quality of the proposed sequence for both the right (P < .05) and left (P < .05) coronary arteries. CONCLUSION The proposed sequence with concatenated 1D spatially selective tip-ups and integrated fat saturation has superior image quality and suppression compared with the Luo sequence with 2D spatially selective tip-up.
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- David Y Zeng
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California
- Department of Medical Biophysics, Western University, London, Canada
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California
- Department of Cardiology, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, California
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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Grissom WA, Allen S. Reducing temperature errors in transcranial MR-guided focused ultrasound using a reduced-field-of-view sequence. Magn Reson Med 2019; 83:1016-1024. [PMID: 31483525 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.27987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2019] [Revised: 08/14/2019] [Accepted: 08/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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PURPOSE To reduce temperature errors due to water motion in transcranial MR-guided focused ultrasound (tcMRgFUS) ablation. THEORY AND METHODS In tcMRgFUS, water is circulated in the transducer bowl around the patient's head for acoustic coupling and heat removal. The water moves during sonications that are monitored by MR thermometry, which causes it to alias into the brain and create temperature errors. To reduce these errors, a two-dimensional excitation pulse was implemented in a gradient-recalled echo thermometry sequence. The pulse suppresses water signal by selectively exciting the brain only, which reduces the imaging FOV. Improvements in temperature precision compared to the conventional full-FOV scan were evaluated in healthy subject scans outside the tcMRgFUS system, gel phantom scans in the system with heating, and in 2×-accelerated head phantom scans in the system without heating. RESULTS In vivo temperature precision (standard deviation of temperature errors) outside the tcMRgFUS system was improved 43% on average, due to the longer TR and TE of the reduced-FOV sequence. In the phantom heating experiments, the hot spot was less distorted in the reduced-FOV scans, and background temperature precision was improved 59% on average. In the accelerated head phantom temperature reconstructions, temperature precision was improved 89% using the reduced-FOV sequence. CONCLUSIONS Reduced-FOV temperature imaging alleviates temperature errors due to water bath motion in tcMRgFUS, and enables accelerated temperature mapping with greater precision.
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- William A Grissom
- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, Tennessee.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Stanley JA, Raz N. Functional Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: The "New" MRS for Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychiatry Research. Front Psychiatry 2018; 9:76. [PMID: 29593585 PMCID: PMC5857528 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2017] [Accepted: 02/23/2018] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H MRS) is a well-established technique for quantifying the brain regional biochemistry in vivo. In most studies, however, the 1H MRS is acquired during rest with little to no constraint on behavior. Measured metabolite levels, therefore, reflect steady-state concentrations whose associations with behavior and cognition are unclear. With the recent advances in MR technology-higher-field MR systems, robust acquisition techniques and sophisticated quantification methods-1H MRS is now experiencing a resurgence. It is sensitive to task-related and pathology-relevant regional dynamic changes in neurotransmitters, including the most ubiquitous among them, glutamate. Moreover, high temporal resolution approaches allow tracking glutamate modulations at a time scale of under a minute during perceptual, motor, and cognitive tasks. The observed task-related changes in brain glutamate are consistent with new metabolic steady states reflecting the neural output driven by shifts in the local excitatory and inhibitory balance on local circuits. Unlike blood oxygen level differences-base functional MRI, this form of in vivo MRS, also known as functional MRS (1H fMRS), yields a more direct measure of behaviorally relevant neural activity and is considerably less sensitive to vascular changes. 1H fMRS enables noninvasive investigations of task-related glutamate changes that are relevant to normal and impaired cognitive performance, and psychiatric disorders. By targeting brain glutamate, this approach taps into putative neural correlates of synaptic plasticity. This review provides a concise survey of recent technological advancements that lay the foundation for the successful use of 1H fMRS in cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychiatry, including a review of seminal 1H fMRS studies, and the discussion of biological significance of task-related changes in glutamate modulation. We conclude with a discussion of the promises, limitations, and outstanding challenges of this new tool in the armamentarium of cognitive neuroscience and psychiatry research.
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- Jeffrey A Stanley
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States.,Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States.,Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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Han PK, Ma C, Deng K, Hu S, Jee KW, Ying K, Chen YL, El Fakhri G. A minimum-phase Shinnar-Le Roux spectral-spatial excitation RF pulse for simultaneous water and lipid suppression in 1H-MRSI of body extremities. Magn Reson Imaging 2018; 45:18-25. [PMID: 28917812 PMCID: PMC5709164 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2017.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2017] [Revised: 09/11/2017] [Accepted: 09/12/2017] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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PURPOSE To develop a spectral-spatial (SPSP) excitation RF pulse for simultaneous water and lipid suppression in proton (1H) magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) of body extremities. METHODS An SPSP excitation pulse is designed to excite Creatine (Cr) and Choline (Cho) metabolite signals while suppressing the overwhelming water and lipid signals. The SPSP pulse is designed using a recently proposed multidimensional Shinnar-Le Roux (SLR) RF pulse design method. A minimum-phase spectral selectivity profile is used to minimize signal loss from T2⁎ decay. RESULTS The performance of the SPSP pulse is evaluated via Bloch equation simulations and phantom experiments. The feasibility of the proposed method is demonstrated using three-dimensional, short repetition-time, free induction decay-based 1H-MRSI in the thigh muscle at 3T. CONCLUSION The proposed SPSP excitation pulse is useful for simultaneous water and lipid suppression. The proposed method enables new applications of high-resolution 1H-MRSI in body extremities.
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- Paul Kyu Han
- Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; Department of Nuclear Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
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Xu X, Geng H, Zhang Q, Yu J, Chu Y, Dong G, Wu J. Investigation of 3D reduced field of view carotid atherosclerotic plaque imaging. Magn Reson Imaging 2017; 49:10-15. [PMID: 28958875 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2017.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2017] [Revised: 09/19/2017] [Accepted: 09/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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To investigate the feasibility of using CUBE based reduced field of view imaging in atherosclerotic plaque imaging. Twenty-four patients were enrolled in this prospective study (13 males, 11 females, age 63±10). All patients underwent MRI exams consisting of 3D TOF, MPRAGE, iMSDE, DANTE, full FOV and reduced FOV CUBE imaging; 18 patients under went contrast enhanced imaging. The resulting images from different imaging sequences were assessed in terms of blood suppression, SNR, motion artifacts and vascular clarity. Reduced field of view CUBE outperformed MPRAGE, iMSDE and full FOV CUBE in blood suppression (P<0.05); outperformed MPRAGE, iMSDE and DANTE in SNR(P<005); outperformed MPRAGE and iMSDE in motion artifacts (P<005); outperformed MPRAGE and iMSDE in vascular clarity (P<0.05). The identifications of hemorrhage and calcification components were consistent between full FOV CUBE and reduced FOV CUBE (P<0.05). Overall, CUBE combined with reduced field of view imaging would be a promising method in atherosclerotic plaque imaging.
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- Xueyan Xu
- Weifang People's Hospital, Weifang, Shandong, China
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- Weifang People's Hospital, Weifang, Shandong, China
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- Weifang People's Hospital, Weifang, Shandong, China
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- Weifang People's Hospital, Weifang, Shandong, China
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- Weifang People's Hospital, Weifang, Shandong, China
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- Weifang People's Hospital, Weifang, Shandong, China
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- Weifang People's Hospital, Weifang, Shandong, China.
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Li Y, Lam F, Clifford B, Liang ZP. A Subspace Approach to Spectral Quantification for MR Spectroscopic Imaging. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2017; 64:2486-2489. [PMID: 28829303 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2017.2741922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To provide a new approach to spectral quantification for magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI), incorporating both spatial and spectral priors. METHODS A novel signal model is proposed, which represents the spectral distributions of each molecule as a subspace and the entire spectrum as a union of subspaces. Based on this model, the spectral quantification can be solved in two steps: 1) subspace estimation based on the empirical distributions of the spectral parameters estimated using spectral priors; and 2) parameter estimation for the union-of-subspaces model incorporating spatial priors. RESULTS The proposed method has been evaluated using both simulated and experimental data, producing impressive results. CONCLUSION The proposed union-of-subspaces representation of spatiospectral functions provides an effective computational framework for solving the MRSI spectral quantification problem with spatiospectral constraints. SIGNIFICANCE The proposed approach transforms how the MRSI spectral quantification problem is solved and enables efficient and effective use of spatiospectral priors to improve parameter estimation. The resulting algorithm is expected to be useful for a wide range of quantitative metabolic imaging studies using MRSI.
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Lefebvre PM, Van Reeth E, Ratiney H, Beuf O, Brusseau E, Lambert SA, Glaser SJ, Sugny D, Grenier D, Tse Ve Koon K. Active control of the spatial MRI phase distribution with optimal control theory. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2017; 281:82-93. [PMID: 28558274 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2017.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2017] [Revised: 05/11/2017] [Accepted: 05/15/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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This paper investigates the use of Optimal Control (OC) theory to design Radio-Frequency (RF) pulses that actively control the spatial distribution of the MRI magnetization phase. The RF pulses are generated through the application of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle and optimized so that the resulting transverse magnetization reproduces various non-trivial and spatial phase patterns. Two different phase patterns are defined and the resulting optimal pulses are tested both numerically with the ODIN MRI simulator and experimentally with an agar gel phantom on a 4.7T small-animal MR scanner. Phase images obtained in simulations and experiments are both consistent with the defined phase patterns. A practical application of phase control with OC-designed pulses is also presented, with the generation of RF pulses adapted for a Magnetic Resonance Elastography experiment. This study demonstrates the possibility to use OC-designed RF pulses to encode information in the magnetization phase and could have applications in MRI sequences using phase images.
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- Pauline M Lefebvre
- Univ.Lyon, INSA-Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, UJM-Saint Etienne, CNRS, Inserm, CREATIS UMR 5220, U1206, 3 rue Victor Grignard, F-69616 Lyon, France.
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- Univ.Lyon, INSA-Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, UJM-Saint Etienne, CNRS, Inserm, CREATIS UMR 5220, U1206, 3 rue Victor Grignard, F-69616 Lyon, France.
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- Univ.Lyon, INSA-Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, UJM-Saint Etienne, CNRS, Inserm, CREATIS UMR 5220, U1206, 3 rue Victor Grignard, F-69616 Lyon, France.
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- Univ.Lyon, INSA-Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, UJM-Saint Etienne, CNRS, Inserm, CREATIS UMR 5220, U1206, 3 rue Victor Grignard, F-69616 Lyon, France.
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- Univ.Lyon, INSA-Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, UJM-Saint Etienne, CNRS, Inserm, CREATIS UMR 5220, U1206, 3 rue Victor Grignard, F-69616 Lyon, France.
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- Univ.Lyon, INSA-Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, UJM-Saint Etienne, CNRS, Inserm, CREATIS UMR 5220, U1206, 3 rue Victor Grignard, F-69616 Lyon, France.
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- Department of Chemistry, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstraße 4, D-85748 Garching, Germany.
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- ICB, UMR 6303 CNRS-Université de Bourgogne, 9 avenue Alain Savary, F-21078 Dijon, France; Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstraße 2a, D-85748 Garching, Germany.
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- Univ.Lyon, INSA-Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, UJM-Saint Etienne, CNRS, Inserm, CREATIS UMR 5220, U1206, 3 rue Victor Grignard, F-69616 Lyon, France.
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- Univ.Lyon, INSA-Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, UJM-Saint Etienne, CNRS, Inserm, CREATIS UMR 5220, U1206, 3 rue Victor Grignard, F-69616 Lyon, France.
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Mooiweer R, Sbrizzi A, Raaijmakers AJ, van den Berg CA, Luijten PR, Hoogduin H. Combining a reduced field of excitation with SENSE-based parallel imaging for maximum imaging efficiency. Magn Reson Med 2017; 78:88-96. [PMID: 27633931 PMCID: PMC5484283 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.26346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2016] [Revised: 06/23/2016] [Accepted: 06/24/2016] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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PURPOSE To show that a combination of parallel imaging using sensitivity encoding (SENSE) and inner volume imaging (IVI) combines the known benefits of both techniques. SENSE with a reduced field of excitation (rFOX) is termed rSENSE. THEORY AND METHODS The noise level in SENSE reconstructions is reduced by removing voxels from the unfolding process that are rendered silent by using rFOX. The silent voxels need to be identified beforehand, this is done by using rFOX in the coil sensitivity maps. In vivo experiments were performed at 7 Tesla using a 32-channel receive coil. RESULTS Good image quality could be obtained in vivo with rSENSE at acceleration factors that are higher than could be obtained using SENSE or IVI alone. With rSENSE we were also able to accelerate scans using an rFOX that was purposely designed to be imperfect or incompatible at all with IVI. CONCLUSION rSENSE has been demonstrated in vivo with two-dimensionally selective radiofrequency pulses. Besides allowing additional scan acceleration, it offers a greater robustness and flexibility than IVI. The proposed method can be used with other field strengths, anatomies and other rFOX techniques. Magn Reson Med 78:88-96, 2017. © 2016 The Authors Magnetic Resonance in Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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- Ronald Mooiweer
- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center UtrechtUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center UtrechtUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center UtrechtUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center UtrechtUtrechtThe Netherlands
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Ma C, Lam F, Ning Q, Johnson CL, Liang ZP. High-resolution 1 H-MRSI of the brain using short-TE SPICE. Magn Reson Med 2017; 77:467-479. [PMID: 26841000 PMCID: PMC5493212 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.26130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2015] [Revised: 12/08/2015] [Accepted: 12/28/2015] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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PURPOSE To improve signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for high-resolution spectroscopic imaging using a subspace-based technique known as SPectroscopic Imaging by exploiting spatiospectral CorrElation (SPICE). METHODS The proposed method is based on a union-of-subspaces model of MRSI signals, which exploits the partial separability properties of water, lipid, baseline and metabolite signals. Enabled by this model, a special scheme is used for accelerated data acquisition, which includes a double-echo CSI component used to collect a "training" dataset (for determination of the basis functions) and a short-TE EPSI component used to collect a sparse "imaging" dataset (for determination of the overall spatiospectral distributions). A set of signal processing algorithms are developed to remove the water and lipid signals and jointly reconstruct the metabolite and baseline signals. RESULTS In vivo 1 H-MRSI results show that the proposed method can effectively remove the remaining water and lipid signals from sparse MRSI data acquired at 20 ms TE. Spatiospectral distributions of metabolite signals at 2 mm in-plane resolution with good SNR were obtained in a 15.5 min scan. CONCLUSIONS The proposed method can effectively remove nuisance signals and reconstruct high-resolution spatiospectral functions from sparse data to make short-TE SPICE possible. The method should prove useful for high-resolution 1 H-MRSI of the brain. Magn Reson Med 77:467-479, 2017. © 2016 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
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- Chao Ma
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
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Bhattacharya I, Jacob M. Compartmentalized low-rank recovery for high-resolution lipid unsuppressed MRSI. Magn Reson Med 2016; 78:1267-1280. [PMID: 27851875 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.26537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2015] [Revised: 09/16/2016] [Accepted: 10/10/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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PURPOSE To introduce a novel algorithm for the recovery of high-resolution magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) data with minimal lipid leakage artifacts, from dual-density spiral acquisition. METHODS The reconstruction of MRSI data from dual-density spiral data is formulated as a compartmental low-rank recovery problem. The MRSI dataset is modeled as the sum of metabolite and lipid signals, each of which is support limited to the brain and extracranial regions, respectively, in addition to being orthogonal to each other. The reconstruction problem is formulated as an optimization problem, which is solved using iterative reweighted nuclear norm minimization. RESULTS The comparisons of the scheme against dual-resolution reconstruction algorithm on numerical phantom and in vivo datasets demonstrate the ability of the scheme to provide higher spatial resolution and lower lipid leakage artifacts. The experiments demonstrate the ability of the scheme to recover the metabolite maps, from lipid unsuppressed datasets with echo time (TE) = 55 ms. CONCLUSION The proposed reconstruction method and data acquisition strategy provide an efficient way to achieve high-resolution metabolite maps without lipid suppression. This algorithm would be beneficial for fast metabolic mapping and extension to multislice acquisitions. Magn Reson Med 78:1267-1280, 2017. © 2016 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
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- Ipshita Bhattacharya
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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Ning Q, Ma C, Lam F, Liang ZP. Spectral Quantification for High-Resolution MR Spectroscopic Imaging With Spatiospectral Constraints. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2016; 64:1178-1186. [PMID: 27479954 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2016.2594583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To obtain reliable spectral estimation from magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) data. METHODS The proposed method takes advantage of prior knowledge: 1) along the spectral dimension in the form of spectral bases, and 2) along the spatial dimensions in the form of spatial regularizations (e.g., smoothness or transform sparsity) and jointly estimates parameters from all the voxels. RESULTS Simulation and in vivo studies have been performed to demonstrate the performance of the proposed method. A Cramér-Rao-bound-based analysis is also provided. CONCLUSION Incorporation of both spatial and spectral constraints can significantly improve spectral quantification of MRSI data. SIGNIFICANCE The proposed method is expected to be useful for various quantitative MRSI studies.
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Shang H, Larson PEZ, Kerr A, Reed G, Sukumar S, Elkhaled A, Gordon JW, Ohliger MA, Pauly JM, Lustig M, Vigneron DB. Multiband RF pulses with improved performance via convex optimization. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2016; 262:81-90. [PMID: 26754063 PMCID: PMC4716678 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2015.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2015] [Revised: 11/20/2015] [Accepted: 11/22/2015] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Selective RF pulses are commonly designed with the desired profile as a low pass filter frequency response. However, for many MRI and NMR applications, the spectrum is sparse with signals existing at a few discrete resonant frequencies. By specifying a multiband profile and releasing the constraint on "don't-care" regions, the RF pulse performance can be improved to enable a shorter duration, sharper transition, or lower peak B1 amplitude. In this project, a framework for designing multiband RF pulses with improved performance was developed based on the Shinnar-Le Roux (SLR) algorithm and convex optimization. It can create several types of RF pulses with multiband magnitude profiles, arbitrary phase profiles and generalized flip angles. The advantage of this framework with a convex optimization approach is the flexible trade-off of different pulse characteristics. Designs for specialized selective RF pulses for balanced SSFP hyperpolarized (HP) (13)C MRI, a dualband saturation RF pulse for (1)H MR spectroscopy, and a pre-saturation pulse for HP (13)C study were developed and tested.
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- Hong Shang
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA; UC Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA; UC Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA; UC Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA; UC Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Luo J, Addy NO, Ingle RR, Hargreaves BA, Hu BS, Nishimura DG, Shin T. Combined outer volume suppression and T2 preparation sequence for coronary angiography. Magn Reson Med 2015; 74:1632-9. [PMID: 25521477 PMCID: PMC4470881 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2014] [Revised: 11/10/2014] [Accepted: 11/14/2014] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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PURPOSE To develop a magnetization preparation sequence for simultaneous outer volume suppression (OVS) and T2 weighting in whole-heart coronary magnetic resonance angiography. METHODS A combined OVS and T2 preparation sequence (OVS-T2 Prep) was designed with a nonselective adiabatic 90° tipdown pulse, two adiabatic 180° refocusing pulses, and a 2D spiral -90° tipup pulse. The OVS-T2 Prep preserves the magnetization inside an elliptic cylinder with T2 weighting, while saturating the magnetization outside the cylinder. Its performance was tested on phantoms and on 13 normal subjects with coronary magnetic resonance angiography using 3D cones trajectories. RESULTS Phantom studies showed expected T2 -dependent signal amplitude in the spatial passband and suppressed signal in the spatial stopband. In vivo studies with full-field-of-view cones yielded a passband-to-stopband signal ratio of 3.18 ± 0.77 and blood-myocardium contrast-to-noise ratio enhancement by a factor of 1.43 ± 0.20 (P < 0.001). In vivo studies with reduced-field-of-view cones showed that OVS-T2 Prep well suppressed the aliasing artifacts, as supported by significantly reduced signal in the regions with no tissues compared to the images acquired without preparation (P < 0.0001). CONCLUSION OVS-T2 Prep is a compact sequence that can accelerate coronary magnetic resonance angiography by suppressing signals from tissues surrounding the heart while simultaneously enhancing the blood-myocardium contrast.
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- Jieying Luo
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Magnetic Resonance Systems Research Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Magnetic Resonance Systems Research Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Magnetic Resonance Systems Research Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Magnetic Resonance Systems Research Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
- Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Magnetic Resonance Systems Research Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Han M, Chiba K, Banerjee S, Carballido-Gamio J, Krug R. Variable flip angle three-dimensional fast spin-echo sequence combined with outer volume suppression for imaging trabecular bone structure of the proximal femur. J Magn Reson Imaging 2015; 41:1300-10. [PMID: 24956149 PMCID: PMC4275424 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.24673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2014] [Revised: 05/26/2014] [Accepted: 05/27/2014] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND To demonstrate the feasibility of using a variable flip angle three-dimensional fast spin-echo (3D VFA-FSE) sequence combined with outer volume suppression for imaging trabecular bone structure at the proximal femur in vivo at 3 Tesla. METHODS The 3D VFA-FSE acquisition was optimized to minimize blurring and to provide high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) from bone marrow. Outer volume suppression was achieved by applying three quadratic-phase radio-frequency pulses. The SNR and trabecular bone structures from 3D VFA-FSE were compared with those from previously demonstrated multiple-acquisition 3D balanced steady-state free precision (bSSFP) using theoretical simulations, ex vivo experiments, and in vivo experiments. RESULTS Our simulation demonstrated that 3D VFA-FSE can provide at least 35% higher SNR than 3D bSSFP, which was confirmed by the ex vivo and in vivo experiments. The ex vivo experiments demonstrated a good correlation and agreement between bone structural paramters obtained with the two sequences. The proposed sequence depicted trabecular bone structure at the proxiaml femur in vivo well without visible suppression artifacts and provided a mean SNR of 11.0. CONCLUSION The 3D VFA-FSE sequence combined with outer volume suppression can depict the trabecular bone structure of the proximal femur in vivo with minimal blurring and high SNR efficiency.
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- Misung Han
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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Ma C, Lam F, Johnson CL, Liang ZP. Removal of nuisance signals from limited and sparse 1H MRSI data using a union-of-subspaces model. Magn Reson Med 2015; 75:488-97. [PMID: 25762370 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2014] [Revised: 01/05/2015] [Accepted: 01/06/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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PURPOSE To remove nuisance signals (e.g., water and lipid signals) for (1) H MRSI data collected from the brain with limited and/or sparse (k, t)-space coverage. METHODS A union-of-subspace model is proposed for removing nuisance signals. The model exploits the partial separability of both the nuisance signals and the metabolite signal, and decomposes an MRSI dataset into several sets of generalized voxels that share the same spectral distributions. This model enables the estimation of the nuisance signals from an MRSI dataset that has limited and/or sparse (k, t)-space coverage. RESULTS The proposed method has been evaluated using in vivo MRSI data. For conventional chemical shift imaging data with limited k-space coverage, the proposed method produced "lipid-free" spectra without lipid suppression during data acquisition at 130 ms echo time. For sparse (k, t)-space data acquired with conventional pulses for water and lipid suppression, the proposed method was also able to remove the remaining water and lipid signals with negligible residuals. CONCLUSION Nuisance signals in (1) H MRSI data reside in low-dimensional subspaces. This property can be utilized for estimation and removal of nuisance signals from (1) H MRSI data even when they have limited and/or sparse coverage of (k, t)-space. The proposed method should prove useful especially for accelerated high-resolution (1) H MRSI of the brain.
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- Chao Ma
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA.,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA.,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
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Sharma A, Lustig M, Grissom WA. Root-flipped multiband refocusing pulses. Magn Reson Med 2015; 75:227-37. [PMID: 25704154 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2014] [Revised: 12/11/2014] [Accepted: 01/03/2015] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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PURPOSE To design low peak power multiband refocusing radiofrequency pulses, with application to simultaneous multislice spin echo MRI. THEORY AND METHODS Multiband Shinnar-Le Roux β polynomials were designed using convex optimization. A Monte Carlo algorithm was used to determine patterns of β polynomial root flips that minimized the peak power of the resulting refocusing pulses. Phase-matched multiband excitation pulses were also designed to obtain linear-phase spin echoes. Simulations compared the performance of the root-flipped pulses with time-shifted and phase-optimized pulses. Phantom and in vivo experiments at 7T validated the function of the root-flipped pulses and compared them to time-shifted spin echo signal profiles. RESULTS Averaged across number of slices, time-bandwidth product, and slice separation, the root-flipped pulses have 46% shorter durations than time-shifted pulses with the same peak radiofrequency amplitude. Unlike time-shifted and phase-optimized pulses, the root-flipped pulses' excitation errors do not increase with decreasing band separation. Experiments showed that the root-flipped pulses excited the desired slices at the target locations, and that for equivalent slice characteristics, the shorter root-flipped pulses allowed shorter echo times, resulting in higher signal than time-shifted pulses. CONCLUSION The proposed root-flipped multiband radiofrequency pulse design method produces low peak power pulses for simultaneous multislice spin echo MRI.
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- Anuj Sharma
- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.,Department of Radiology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.,Department of Electrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Araujo ECA, Fromes Y, Carlier PG. New insights on human skeletal muscle tissue compartments revealed by in vivo t2 NMR relaxometry. Biophys J 2014; 106:2267-74. [PMID: 24853755 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2014] [Revised: 03/06/2014] [Accepted: 04/09/2014] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The spin-spin (T2) relaxation of (1)H-NMR signals in human skeletal muscle has been previously hypothesized to reveal information about myowater compartmentation. Although experimental support has been provided, no consensus has yet emerged concerning the attribution of specific anatomical compartments to the observed T2 components. Potential application of a noninvasive tool that might offer such information urges the quest for a definitive answer to this question. The purpose of this work was to obtain new information that might help elucidate the mechanism of T2 distribution in muscle. To do so, in vivo T2 relaxation data was acquired from the soleus of eight healthy volunteers using a localized Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill technique. Each acquisition contained 1000 echoes with an interecho spacing of 1 ms. Data were acquired from each subject under different vascular filling preparations expected to change exclusively the extracellular water fraction. Two exponential components were systematically observed: an intermediate component (T2 ~ 32 ms) and a long component (100 < T2 < 210 ms). The relative fraction and T2 value characterizing the long component systematically increased after progressive augmentation of extracellular water volume. Characteristic relaxation behavior for each vascular filling condition was analyzed with a two-site exchange model and a three-site two-exchange model. We show that a two-site exchange model can only predict the observations for small exchange rates, much more representative of transendothelial than transcytolemmal exchange regimes. The three-site two-exchange model representing the intracellular, interstitial, and vascular spaces was capable of precisely predicting the observations for realistic transcytolemmal and transendothelial exchange rates. The estimated intrinsic relative fractions of each of these compartments corroborate with estimations from previous works and strongly suggest that the T2 relaxation from water within the intracellular and interstitial spaces is described by the intermediate component, whereas the long component represents water within the vascular space.
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- Ericky C A Araujo
- Institute of Myology, Paris, France; University Paris-Sud (Paris 11), Orsay, France.
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- University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 06), Paris, France
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- Institute of Myology, Paris, France; University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 06), Paris, France; Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Institut d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Molecular Imaging Research Center, IdM Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory, Paris, France.
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Chatnuntawech I, Gagoski B, Bilgic B, Cauley SF, Setsompop K, Adalsteinsson E. Accelerated 1 H MRSI using randomly undersampled spiral-based k-space trajectories. Magn Reson Med 2014; 74:13-24. [PMID: 25079076 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2014] [Revised: 07/10/2014] [Accepted: 07/11/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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PURPOSE To develop and evaluate the performance of an acquisition and reconstruction method for accelerated MR spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) through undersampling of spiral trajectories. THEORY AND METHODS A randomly undersampled spiral acquisition and sensitivity encoding (SENSE) with total variation (TV) regularization, random SENSE+TV, is developed and evaluated on single-slice numerical phantom, in vivo single-slice MRSI, and in vivo three-dimensional (3D)-MRSI at 3 Tesla. Random SENSE+TV was compared with five alternative methods for accelerated MRSI. RESULTS For the in vivo single-slice MRSI, random SENSE+TV yields up to 2.7 and 2 times reduction in root-mean-square error (RMSE) of reconstructed N-acetyl aspartate (NAA), creatine, and choline maps, compared with the denoised fully sampled and uniformly undersampled SENSE+TV methods with the same acquisition time, respectively. For the in vivo 3D-MRSI, random SENSE+TV yields up to 1.6 times reduction in RMSE, compared with uniform SENSE+TV. Furthermore, by using random SENSE+TV, we have demonstrated on the in vivo single-slice and 3D-MRSI that acceleration factors of 4.5 and 4 are achievable with the same quality as the fully sampled data, as measured by RMSE of reconstructed NAA map, respectively. CONCLUSION With the same scan time, random SENSE+TV yields lower RMSEs of metabolite maps than other methods evaluated. Random SENSE+TV achieves up to 4.5-fold acceleration with comparable data quality as the fully sampled acquisition. Magn Reson Med 74:13-24, 2015. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Itthi Chatnuntawech
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging & Developmental Science Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA
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- A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA
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- A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Institute of Medical Engineering & Science, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Harry H, Kan HE. Quantitative proton MR techniques for measuring fat. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 2013; 26:1609-29. [PMID: 24123229 PMCID: PMC4001818 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2013] [Revised: 07/13/2013] [Accepted: 08/19/2013] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Accurate, precise and reliable techniques for the quantification of body and organ fat distributions are important tools in physiology research. They are critically needed in studies of obesity and diseases involving excess fat accumulation. Proton MR methods address this need by providing an array of relaxometry-based (T1, T2) and chemical shift-based approaches. These techniques can generate informative visualizations of regional and whole-body fat distributions, yield measurements of fat volumes within specific body depots and quantify fat accumulation in abdominal organs and muscles. MR methods are commonly used to investigate the role of fat in nutrition and metabolism, to measure the efficacy of short- and long-term dietary and exercise interventions, to study the implications of fat in organ steatosis and muscular dystrophies and to elucidate pathophysiological mechanisms in the context of obesity and its comorbidities. The purpose of this review is to provide a summary of mainstream MR strategies for fat quantification. The article succinctly describes the principles that differentiate water and fat proton signals, summarizes the advantages and limitations of various techniques and offers a few illustrative examples. The article also highlights recent efforts in the MR of brown adipose tissue and concludes by briefly discussing some future research directions.
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- Houchun Harry
- Corresponding Author Houchun Harry Hu, PhD Children's Hospital Los Angeles University of Southern California 4650 Sunset Boulevard Department of Radiology, MS #81 Los Angeles, California, USA. 90027 , Office: +1 (323) 361-2688 Fax: +1 (323) 361-1510
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- C.J. Gorter Center for High Field MRI, Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Wargo CJ, Moore J, Gore JC. A comparison and evaluation of reduced-FOV methods for multi-slice 7T human imaging. Magn Reson Imaging 2013; 31:1349-59. [PMID: 23891434 PMCID: PMC3947502 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2013.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2013] [Accepted: 05/09/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Eight different reduced field-of-view (FOV) MRI techniques suitable for high field human imaging were implemented, optimized, and evaluated at 7T. These included selective Inner-Volume Imaging (IVI) based methods, and Outer-Volume Suppression (OVS) techniques, some of which were previously unexplored at ultra-high fields. Design considerations included use of selective composite excitation and adiabatic refocusing radio-frequency (RF) pulses to address B1 inhomogeneities, twice-refocused spin echo techniques, frequency-modulated pulses to sharply define suppressed regions, and pulse sequence designs to improve SNR in multi-slice scans. The different methods were quantitatively compared in phantoms and in vivo human brain images to provide measurements of relative signal to noise ratio (SNR), power deposition (specific absorption rate, SAR), suppression of signal, artifact strength and prevalence, and general image quality. Multi-slice signal losses in out-of-slice locations were simulated for IVI methods, and then measured experimentally across a range of slice numbers. Corrections for B1 nonuniformities demonstrated an improved SNR and a reduction in artifact power in the reduced-FOV, but produced an elevated SAR. Multi-slice sequences with reordering of pulses in traditional and twice-refocused IVI techniques demonstrated an improved SNR compared to conventional methods. The combined results provide a basis for use of reduced-FOV techniques for human imaging localized to a small FOV at 7T.
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- Christopher J Wargo
- Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, 1161 21st Ave. South, MCN AA-1105 Nashville, TN 37232-2310, USA; Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, 116 21st Ave. South, MCN CCC-1106, Nashville, TN 37232-2675, USA.
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Wargo CJ, Gore JC. Localized high-resolution DTI of the human midbrain using single-shot EPI, parallel imaging, and outer-volume suppression at 7T. Magn Reson Imaging 2013; 31:810-9. [PMID: 23541390 PMCID: PMC3846522 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2013.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2012] [Accepted: 01/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Localized high-resolution diffusion tensor images (DTI) from the midbrain were obtained using reduced field-of-view (rFOV) methods combined with SENSE parallel imaging and single-shot echo planar (EPI) acquisitions at 7T. This combination aimed to diminish sensitivities of DTI to motion, susceptibility variations, and EPI artifacts at ultra-high field. Outer-volume suppression (OVS) was applied in DTI acquisitions at 2- and 1-mm(2) resolutions, b=1000s/mm(2), and six diffusion directions, resulting in scans of 7- and 14-min durations. Mean apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and fractional anisotropy (FA) values were measured in various fiber tract locations at the two resolutions and compared. Geometric distortion and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) were additionally measured and compared for reduced-FOV and full-FOV DTI scans. Up to an eight-fold data reduction was achieved using DTI-OVS with SENSE at 1mm(2), and geometric distortion was halved. The localization of fiber tracts was improved, enabling targeted FA and ADC measurements. Significant differences in diffusion properties were observed between resolutions for a number of regions suggesting that FA values are impacted by partial volume effects even at a 2-mm(2) resolution. The combined SENSE DTI-OVS approach allows large reductions in DTI data acquisition and provides improved quality for high-resolution diffusion studies of the human brain.
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- Christopher J Wargo
- Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, 1161 21st Ave. South, MCN AA-1105, Nashville, TN 37232-2310, USA.
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Feinberg DA, Yacoub E. The rapid development of high speed, resolution and precision in fMRI. Neuroimage 2012; 62:720-5. [PMID: 22281677 PMCID: PMC3389295 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2011] [Revised: 01/04/2012] [Accepted: 01/05/2012] [Indexed: 10/14/2022] Open
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MRI pulse sequences designed to increase the speed and spatial resolution of fMRI have always been a hot topic. Here, we review and chronicle the history behind some of the pulse sequence ideas that have contributed not only to the enhancement of fMRI acquisition but also to diffusion imaging. (i) Partial Fourier EPI allows lengthening echo trains for higher spatial resolution while maintaining optimal TE and BOLD sensitivity. (ii) Inner-volume EPI renamed zoomed-EPI, achieves extremely high spatial resolution and has been applied to fMRI at 7Tesla to resolve cortical layer activity and columnar level fMRI. (iii) An early non-BOLD approach while unsuccessful for fMRI created a diffusion sequence of bipolar pulses called 'twice refocused spin echo' now widely used for high-resolution DTI and HARDI neuronal fiber track imaging. (iv) Multiplexed EPI shortens TR to a few hundred milliseconds, increasing sampling rates and statistical power in fMRI.
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- David A Feinberg
- University of California, Berkeley and Advanced MRI Technologies, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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Bilgic B, Gagoski B, Kok T, Adalsteinsson E. Lipid suppression in CSI with spatial priors and highly undersampled peripheral k-space. Magn Reson Med 2012; 69:1501-11. [PMID: 22807147 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2012] [Revised: 06/06/2012] [Accepted: 06/07/2012] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Mapping 1H brain metabolites using chemical shift imaging is hampered by the presence of subcutaneous lipid signals, which contaminate the metabolites by ringing due to limited spatial resolution. Even though chemical shift imaging at spatial resolution high enough to mitigate the lipid artifacts is infeasible due to signal-to-noise constraints on the metabolites, the lipid signals have orders of magnitude of higher concentration, which enables the collection of high-resolution lipid maps with adequate signal-to-noise. The previously proposed dual-density approach exploits this high signal-to-noise property of the lipid layer to suppress truncation artifacts using high-resolution lipid maps. Another recent approach for lipid suppression makes use of the fact that metabolite and lipid spectra are approximately orthogonal, and seeks sparse metabolite spectra when projected onto lipid-basis functions. This work combines and extends the dual-density approach and the lipid-basis penalty, while estimating the high-resolution lipid image from 2-average k-space data to incur minimal increase on the scan time. Further, we exploit the spectral-spatial sparsity of the lipid ring and propose to estimate it from substantially undersampled (acceleration R=10 in the peripheral k-space) 2-average in vivo data using compressed sensing and still obtain improved lipid suppression relative to using dual-density or lipid-basis penalty alone.
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- Berkin Bilgic
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
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Verma G, Lipnick S, Ramadan S, Nagarajan R, Thomas MA. Implementation of multi-echo-based correlated spectroscopic imaging and pilot findings in human brain and calf muscle. J Magn Reson Imaging 2012; 34:262-9. [PMID: 21780221 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To implement a spatially encoded correlated spectroscopic imaging (COSI) sequence on 3 Tesla (T) MRI/MR spectroscopy scanners incorporating four echoes to collect four phase-encoded acquisitions per repetition time (TR), and to evaluate the performance and reliability of this four-dimensional (4D) multi-echo COSI (ME-COSI) sequence in brain and calf muscle. MATERIALS AND METHODS Typical scan parameters for the 4D datasets were as follows: repetition time = 1500 ms, 2000 Hz bandwidth, 8 × 8 spatial encoding, one average, 64 Δt(1) increments and the scan duration was 25 min. The performance and test-retest reliability of ME-COSI were evaluated with phantoms and in the occipitoparietal brain tissues and calf of six healthy volunteers (mean age = 32 years old). RESULTS Regional differences in concentrations of lipids, creatine (Cr), choline (Ch), and carnosine (Car) were observed between spectra from voxels located in tibial marrow, tibialis anterior, and soleus muscle. Diagonal and cross-peak resonances were identified from several brain metabolites including N-acetyl aspartate (NAA), Ch, Cr, lactate (Lac), aspartate (Asp), glutathione (GSH), and glutamine\glutamate (Glx). Coefficients of variation (CV) in metabolite ratios across repeated measurements were <15% for diagonal and <25% for cross-peaks observed in vivo. CONCLUSION The ME-COSI sequence reliably acquired spatially resolved 2D Correlated Spectroscopy (COSY) spectra demonstrating the feasibility of differentiating spatial variation of metabolites in different tissues. Multi-echo acquisition shortens scan duration to clinically feasible times.
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- Gaurav Verma
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1721, USA
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Heidemann RM, Ivanov D, Trampel R, Fasano F, Meyer H, Pfeuffer J, Turner R. Isotropic submillimeter fMRI in the human brain at 7 T: Combining reduced field-of-view imaging and partially parallel acquisitions. Magn Reson Med 2012; 68:1506-16. [DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2011] [Revised: 11/30/2011] [Accepted: 12/16/2011] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Heidemann RM, Anwander A, Feiweier T, Knösche TR, Turner R. k-space and q-space: combining ultra-high spatial and angular resolution in diffusion imaging using ZOOPPA at 7 T. Neuroimage 2012; 60:967-78. [PMID: 22245337 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.12.081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2011] [Revised: 11/13/2011] [Accepted: 12/27/2011] [Indexed: 10/14/2022] Open
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There is ongoing debate whether using a higher spatial resolution (sampling k-space) or a higher angular resolution (sampling q-space angles) is the better way to improve diffusion MRI (dMRI) based tractography results in living humans. In both cases, the limiting factor is the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), due to the restricted acquisition time. One possible way to increase the spatial resolution without sacrificing either SNR or angular resolution is to move to a higher magnetic field strength. Nevertheless, dMRI has not been the preferred application for ultra-high field strength (7 T). This is because single-shot echo-planar imaging (EPI) has been the method of choice for human in vivo dMRI. EPI faces several challenges related to the use of a high resolution at high field strength, for example, distortions and image blurring. These problems can easily compromise the expected SNR gain with field strength. In the current study, we introduce an adapted EPI sequence in conjunction with a combination of ZOOmed imaging and Partially Parallel Acquisition (ZOOPPA). We demonstrate that the method can produce high quality diffusion-weighted images with high spatial and angular resolution at 7 T. We provide examples of in vivo human dMRI with isotropic resolutions of 1 mm and 800 μm. These data sets are particularly suitable for resolving complex and subtle fiber architectures, including fiber crossings in the white matter, anisotropy in the cortex and fibers entering the cortex.
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- Robin M Heidemann
- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstr. 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
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Lee GR, Tkach JA, Griswold MA. Time-efficient slab-selective water excitation for 3D MRI. Magn Reson Med 2012; 67:127-36. [DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2011] [Revised: 03/22/2011] [Accepted: 04/15/2011] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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High Field MR Spectroscopy: Investigating Human Metabolite Levels at High Spectral and Spatial Resolution. HIGH-FIELD MR IMAGING 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/174_2011_201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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Grissom WA, McKinnon GC, Vogel MW. Nonuniform and multidimensional Shinnar-Le Roux RF pulse design method. Magn Reson Med 2011; 68:690-702. [PMID: 22161690 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2011] [Revised: 09/02/2011] [Accepted: 10/03/2011] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The Shinnar-Le Roux (SLR) radiofrequency (RF) pulse design algorithm is widely used for designing slice-selective RF pulses due to its intuitiveness, optimality, and speed. SLR is limited, however, in that it is only capable of designing one-dimensional pulses played along constant gradients. We present a nonuniform SLR RF pulse design framework that extends most of the capabilities of classical SLR to nonuniform gradient trajectories and multiple dimensions. Specifically, like classical SLR, the new method is a hard pulse approximation-based technique that uses filter design relationships to produce the lowest power RF pulse that satisfies target magnetization ripple levels. The new method is validated and compared with methods conventionally used for nonuniform and multidimensional large-tip-angle RF pulse design.
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- William A Grissom
- Imaging Technologies Laboratory, GE Global Research, Munich, Germany.
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Smith TB, Nayak KS. Reduced field of view MRI with rapid, B1-robust outer volume suppression. Magn Reson Med 2011; 67:1316-23. [PMID: 22083545 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2011] [Revised: 06/15/2011] [Accepted: 07/05/2011] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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MRI scans are inefficient when the size of the anatomy under investigation is small relative to the subject's full extent. The field of view must be expanded, and acquisition times accordingly prolonged. Shorter scans are feasible with reduced field of view imaging (rFOV) using outer volume suppression (OVS), a magnetization preparation sequence that attenuates signal outside a region of interest (ROI). This work presents a new OVS sequence with a cylindrical ROI, short duration, and improved tolerance for B(1)+ inhomogeneity. The sequence consists of a nonselective adiabatic tipdown pulse, which provides B(1)+-robust signal suppression, and a fast 2D spiral cylindrical tipback pulse. Analysis of the Bloch equations with transverse initial magnetization reveals a conjugate symmetric constraint for tipback pulses with small flip angles. This property is exploited to achieve two-shot performance from the single-shot tipback pulse. The OVS sequence is validated in phantoms and in vivo with multislice spiral imaging at 3 T. The relative signal-to-noise ratio efficiency of the proposed sequence was 98% in a phantom and 75-90% in vivo. The effectiveness is demonstrated with cardiovascular rFOV imaging, which exhibits improved resolution and reduced artifacts compared to conventional, full field of view imaging.
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- Travis B Smith
- Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-2564, USA.
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Sutton BP, Conway CA, Bae Y, Seethamraju R, Kuehn DP. Faster dynamic imaging of speech with field inhomogeneity corrected spiral fast low angle shot (FLASH) at 3 T. J Magn Reson Imaging 2011; 32:1228-37. [PMID: 21031529 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To evaluate the impact of magnetic field inhomogeneity correction on achievable imaging speeds for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of articulating oropharyngeal structures during speech and to determine if sufficient acquisition speed is available for visualizing speech structures with real-time MRI. MATERIALS AND METHODS We designed a spiral fast low angle shot (FLASH) sequence that combines several acquisition techniques with an advanced image reconstruction approach that includes magnetic field inhomogeneity correction. A simulation study was performed to examine the interaction between imaging speed, image quality, number of spiral shots, and field inhomogeneity correction. Six volunteer subjects were scanned to demonstrate adequate visualization of articulating structures during simple speech samples. RESULTS The simulation study confirmed that magnetic field inhomogeneity correction improves the available tradeoff between image quality and speed. Our optimized sequence co-acquires magnetic field maps for image correction and achieves a dynamic imaging rate of 21.4 frames per second, significantly faster than previous studies. Improved visualization of anatomical structures, such as the soft palate, was also seen from the field-corrected reconstructions in data acquired on volunteer subjects producing simple speech samples. CONCLUSION Adequate temporal resolution of articulating oropharyngeal structures during speech can be obtained by combining outer volume suppression, multishot spiral imaging, and magnetic field corrected image reconstruction. Correcting for the large, dynamic magnetic field variation in the oropharyngeal cavity improves image quality and allows for higher temporal resolution.
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- Bradley P Sutton
- Bioengineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
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Balchandani P, Pauly J, Spielman D. Designing adiabatic radio frequency pulses using the Shinnar-Le Roux algorithm. Magn Reson Med 2011; 64:843-51. [PMID: 20806378 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Adiabatic pulses are a special class of radio frequency (RF) pulses that may be used to achieve uniform flip angles in the presence of a nonuniform B(1) field. In this work, we present a new, systematic method for designing high-bandwidth (BW), low-peak-amplitude adiabatic RF pulses that utilizes the Shinnar-Le Roux (SLR) algorithm for pulse design. Currently, the SLR algorithm is extensively employed to design nonadiabatic pulses for use in magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy. We have adapted the SLR algorithm to create RF pulses that also satisfy the adiabatic condition. By overlaying sufficient quadratic phase across the spectral profile before the inverse SLR transform, we generate RF pulses that exhibit the required spectral characteristics and adiabatic behavior. Application of quadratic phase also distributes the RF energy more uniformly, making it possible to obtain the same spectral BW with lower RF peak amplitude. The method enables the pulse designer to specify spectral profile parameters and the degree of quadratic phase before pulse generation. Simulations and phantom experiments demonstrate that RF pulses designed using this new method behave adiabatically.
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- Priti Balchandani
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
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Kuo AYC, Chiew M, Tam F, Cunningham C, Graham SJ. Multiecho coarse voxel acquisition for neurofeedback fMRI. Magn Reson Med 2010; 65:715-24. [DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2010] [Revised: 08/23/2010] [Accepted: 09/14/2010] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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von Morze C, Kelley DAC, Shepherd TM, Banerjee S, Xu D, Hess CP. Reduced field-of-view diffusion-weighted imaging of the brain at 7 T. Magn Reson Imaging 2010; 28:1541-5. [PMID: 20850242 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.06.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2010] [Accepted: 06/25/2010] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Ventral and rostral regions of the brain are of emerging importance for the MRI characterization of early dementia, traumatic brain injury and epilepsy. Unfortunately, standard single-shot echo planar diffusion-weighted imaging of these regions at high fields is contaminated by severe imaging artifacts in the vicinity of air-tissue interfaces. To mitigate these artifacts and improve visualization of the temporal and frontal lobes at 7 T, we applied a reduced field-of-view strategy, enabled by outer volume suppression (OVS) with novel quadratic phase radiofrequency (RF) pulses, combined with partial Fourier and parallel imaging methods. The new acquisition greatly reduced the level of artifacts in six human subjects (including four patients with early symptoms of dementia).
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- Cornelius von Morze
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco MC 2512, CA 94158-2512, USA.
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Yen YF, Le Roux P, Mayer D, King R, Spielman D, Tropp J, Butts Pauly K, Pfefferbaum A, Vasanawala S, Hurd R. T(2) relaxation times of (13)C metabolites in a rat hepatocellular carcinoma model measured in vivo using (13)C-MRS of hyperpolarized [1-(13)C]pyruvate. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 2010; 23:414-23. [PMID: 20175135 PMCID: PMC2891253 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2009] [Revised: 10/22/2009] [Accepted: 10/28/2009] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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A single-voxel Carr-Purcell-Meibloom-Gill sequence was developed to measure localized T(2) relaxation times of (13)C-labeled metabolites in vivo for the first time. Following hyperpolarized [1-(13)C]pyruvate injections, pyruvate and its metabolic products, alanine and lactate, were observed in the liver of five rats with hepatocellular carcinoma and five healthy control rats. The T(2) relaxation times of alanine and lactate were both significantly longer in HCC tumors than in normal livers (p < 0.002). The HCC tumors also showed significantly higher alanine signal relative to the total (13)C signal than normal livers (p < 0.006). The intra- and inter-subject variations of the alanine T(2) relaxation time were 11% and 13%, respectively. The intra- and inter-subject variations of the lactate T(2) relaxation time were 6% and 7%, respectively. The intra-subject variability of alanine to total carbon ratio was 16% and the inter-subject variability 28%. The intra-subject variability of lactate to total carbon ratio was 14% and the inter-subject variability 20%. The study results show that the signal level and relaxivity of [1-(13)C]alanine may be promising biomarkers for HCC tumors. Its diagnostic values in HCC staging and treatment monitoring are yet to be explored.
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- Yi-Fen Yen
- Global Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, CA, USA.
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Sutton BP, Conway C, Bae Y, Brinegar C, Liang ZP, Kuehn DP. Dynamic imaging of speech and swallowing with MRI. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2010; 2009:6651-4. [PMID: 19963929 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2009.5332869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Dynamic imaging with MRI holds great promise for visualizing soft tissue structures in the oropharyngeal region during speech and swallowing studies. However, MRI suffers from historically slow acquisition speed and sensitivity to significant magnetic susceptibility differences in this region. In this work, we describe our efforts in creating high temporal resolution, serial acquisitions of the muscles of the oropharyngeal region. We describe our imaging approach that leads to acquisition rates of up to 21 frames per second. Additionally, we compare the serial acquisition scheme to gated acquisitions that suffer from temporal blur due to limited repeatability of the dynamic action.
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- Bradley P Sutton
- Bioengineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
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Zuo J, Saadat E, Romero A, Loo K, Li X, Link TM, Kurhanewicz J, Majumdar S. Assessment of intervertebral disc degeneration with magnetic resonance single-voxel spectroscopy. Magn Reson Med 2010; 62:1140-6. [PMID: 19780173 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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This study examined the feasibility of using short-echo water-suppressed point-resolved spectroscopy (PRESS) on a clinical 3T magnetic resonance (MR) scanner for evaluating biochemical changes in degenerated bovine and cadaveric human intervertebral discs. In bovine discs (N = 17), degeneration was induced with papain injections. Degeneration of human cadaveric discs (N = 27) was assessed using the Pfirrmann grading on T(2)-weighted images. Chemicals in the carbohydrate region (Carb), the choline head group (Cho), the N-acetyl region (N-acetyl), and the lipid and lactate region (Lac+Lip) were quantified using (1)H PRESS, and were compared between specimens with different degrees of degeneration. The correlation between the spectroscopic findings and glycosaminoglycan (GAG) quantification using biochemical assays was determined. Significant differences were found between the ratios (N-acetyl/Cho, N-acetyl/Lac+Lip) acquired before and after papain injection in bovine discs. For human cadaveric discs, significant differences in the ratios (N-acetyl/Carb, N-acetyl/Lac+Lip) were found between discs having high and low Pfirrmann scores. Significant correlations were found between N-acetyl/Lac+Lip and GAG content in bovine discs (R = 0.77, P = 0.0007) and cadaveric discs (R = 0.83, P < 0.0001). Significant correlation between N-acetyl/Cho and GAG content was also found in cadaver discs (R = 0.64, P = 0.0039). This study demonstrates for the first time that short-echo PRESS on a clinical 3T MR scanner can be used to noninvasively and can reproducibly quantify metabolic changes associated with degeneration of intervertebral discs.
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- Jin Zuo
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
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Chen AP, Leung K, Lam W, Hurd RE, Vigneron DB, Cunningham CH. Design of spectral-spatial outer volume suppression RF pulses for tissue specific metabolic characterization with hyperpolarized 13C pyruvate. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2009; 200:344-8. [PMID: 19616981 PMCID: PMC2833324 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2009.06.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2009] [Revised: 06/29/2009] [Accepted: 06/30/2009] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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[1-(13)C] pyruvate pre-polarized via DNP has been used in animal models to probe changes in metabolic enzyme activities in vivo. To more accurately assess the metabolic state and its change from disease progression or therapy in a specific region or tissue in vivo, it may be desirable to separate the downstream (13)C metabolite signals resulting from the metabolic activity within the tissue of interest and those brought into the tissue by perfusion. In this study, a spectral-spatial saturation pulse that selectively saturates the signal from the metabolic products [1-(13)C] lactate and [1-(13)C] alanine was designed and implemented as outer volume suppression for localized MRSI acquisition. Preliminary in vivo results showed that the suppression pulse did not prevent the pre-polarized pyruvate from being delivered throughout the animal while it saturated the metabolites within the targeted saturation region.
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Near J, Romagnoli C, Curtis AT, Klassen LM, Izawa J, Chin J, Bartha R. High-field MRSI of the prostate using a transmit/receive endorectal coil and gradient modulated adiabatic localization. J Magn Reson Imaging 2009; 30:335-43. [PMID: 19629986 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To demonstrate in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) of the human prostate at 4.0T using a transmit/receive endorectal coil and a pulse sequence designed specifically for this application. MATERIALS AND METHODS A solid, reusable endorectal probe was designed for both radiofrequency transmission and reception. Finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulations were performed to characterize the coil's electric field distribution, and temperature measurements were performed in a beef tissue phantom to determine the coil's safe operating limit. The localization by selective adiabatic refocusing (LASER) pulse sequence was implemented using six gradient modulated offset independent adiabatic (GOIA) pulses for very sharp, B(1)-insensitive voxel localization. RESULTS Based on the simulations and temperature measurements, the coil's safe operating limit was conservatively estimated to be 1.0W for 15 minutes. The transition width of the GOIA pulse selection profiles was only 6% of the bandwidth, compared with 22% for a specific absorption rate (SAR)-matched conventional adiabatic pulse. Using the coil and pulse sequence described here, MRSI data were successfully acquired from a patient with biopsy-proven prostate cancer, with a nominal voxel size of 0.34 cc in a scan time of 15 minutes. CONCLUSION This work demonstrates the safe and effective use of a transmit/receive endorectal coil for in vivo MRSI of the prostate.
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- Jamie Near
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Goldstein G, Panchalingam K, McClure RJ, Stanley JA, Calhoun VD, Pearlson GD, Pettegrew JW. Molecular neurodevelopment: an in vivo 31P-1H MRSI study. J Int Neuropsychol Soc 2009; 15:671-83. [PMID: 19674503 PMCID: PMC2773163 DOI: 10.1017/s1355617709990233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Synaptic development and elimination are normal neurodevelopmental processes, which if altered could contribute to various neuropsychiatric disorders. 31P-1H magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams were conducted on 105 healthy children ages 6-18 years old to identify neuromolecular indices of synaptic development and elimination. Over the age range studied, age-related changes in high-energy phosphate (phosphocreatine), membrane phospholipid metabolism (precursors and breakdown products), and percent gray matter volume were found. These neuromolecular and structural indices of synaptic development and elimination are associated with development of several cognitive domains. Monitoring of these molecular markers is essential for devising treatment strategies for neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Josan S, Kaye E, Pauly JM, Daniel BL, Pauly KB. Improved half RF slice selectivity in the presence of eddy currents with out-of-slice saturation. Magn Reson Med 2009; 61:1090-5. [PMID: 19319972 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Ultrashort echo time imaging with half RF pulse excitation is sensitive to eddy currents induced by the slice-select gradient that distorts the half pulse slice profile. This work demonstrates improvements in the half pulse profile by using spatial saturation on both sides of the imaged slice to suppress the out-of-slice magnetization. This effectively improves the selectivity of the half pulse excitation profile. A quadratic phase RF pulse with high bandwidth and selectivity was used to achieve a wide saturation band with sharp edges. Experimental results demonstrate substantially improved slice selectivity and R(2)* quantitation accuracy obtained with the out-of-slice saturation. This approach is effective in making short T(2) imaging and quantitation with half pulses less sensitive to eddy currents.
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- Sonal Josan
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
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Matson GB, Young K, Kaiser LG. RF pulses for in vivo spectroscopy at high field designed under conditions of limited power using optimal control. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2009; 199:30-40. [PMID: 19398359 PMCID: PMC2724660 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2009.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2008] [Revised: 03/27/2009] [Accepted: 03/27/2009] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Localized in vivo spectroscopy at high magnetic field strength (>3T) is susceptible to localization artifacts such as the chemical shift artifact and the spatial interference artifact for J-coupled spins. This latter artifact results in regions of anomalous phase for J-coupled spins. These artifacts are exacerbated at high magnetic field due to the increased frequency dispersion, coupled with the limited RF pulse bandwidths used for localization. Approaches to minimize these artifacts include increasing the bandwidth of the frequency selective excitation pulses, and the use of frequency selective saturation pulses to suppress the signals in the regions with anomalous phase. The goal of this article is to demonstrate the efficacy of optimal control methods to provide broader bandwidth frequency selective pulses for in vivo spectroscopy in the presence of limited RF power. It is demonstrated by examples that the use of optimal control methods enable the generation of (i) improved bandwidth selective excitation pulses, (ii) more efficient selective inversion pulses to be used for generation of spin echoes, and (iii) improved frequency selective saturation pulses. While optimal control also allows for the generation of frequency selective spin echo pulses, it is argued that it is more efficient to use dual inversion pulses for broadband generation of spin echoes. Finally, the optimal control routines and example RF pulses are made available for downloading.
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- Gerald B Matson
- Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (114M), Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of California, 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA.
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Osorio JA, Xu D, Cunningham CH, Chen A, Kerr AB, Pauly JM, Vigneron DB, Nelson SJ. Design of cosine modulated very selective suppression pulses for MR spectroscopic imaging at 3T. Magn Reson Med 2009; 61:533-40. [PMID: 19097232 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The advantages of using a 3 Tesla (T) scanner for MR spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) of brain tissue include improved spectral resolution and increased sensitivity. Very selective saturation (VSS) pulses are important for maximizing selectivity for PRESS MRSI and minimizing chemical shift misregistration by saturating signals from outside the selected region. Although three-dimensional (3D) PRESS MRSI is able to provide excellent quality metabolic data for patients with brain tumors and has been shown to be important for defining tumor burden, the method is currently limited by how much of the anatomic lesion can be covered within a single examination. In this study we designed and implemented cosine modulated VSS pulses that were optimized for 3T MRSI acquisitions. This provided improved coverage and suppression of unwanted lipid signals with a smaller number of pulses. The use of the improved pulse sequence was validated in volunteer studies, and in clinical 3D MRSI exams of brain tumors.
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- Joseph A Osorio
- UCSF/UCB Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, San Francisco, California 94158-2532, USA.
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Yun S, Oh SS, Han Y, Park H. High-resolution fMRI with higher-order generalized series imaging and parallel imaging techniques (HGS-parallel). J Magn Reson Imaging 2009; 29:924-36. [DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Wilm BJ, Gamper U, Henning A, Pruessmann KP, Kollias SS, Boesiger P. Diffusion-weighted imaging of the entire spinal cord. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 2009; 22:174-181. [PMID: 18727164 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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In spite of their diagnostic potential, the poor quality of available diffusion-weighted spinal cord images often restricts clinical application to cervical regions, and improved spatial resolution is highly desirable. To address these needs, a novel technique based on the combination of two recently presented reduced field-of-view approaches is proposed, enabling high-resolution acquisition over the entire spinal cord. Field-of-view reduction is achieved by the application of non-coplanar excitation and refocusing pulses combined with outer volume suppression for removal of unwanted transition zones. The non-coplanar excitation is performed such that a gap-less volume is acquired in a dedicated interleaved slice order within two repetition times. The resulting inner volume selectivity was evaluated in vitro. In vivo diffusion tensor imaging data on the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spinal cord were acquired in transverse orientation in each of four healthy subjects. An in-plane resolution of 0.7 x 0.7 mm(2) was achieved without notable aliasing, motion or susceptibility artifacts. The measured mean +/- SD fractional anisotropy was 0.69 +/- 0.11 in the thoracic spinal cord and 0.75 +/- 0.07 and 0.63 +/- 0.08 in cervical and lumbar white matter, respectively.
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- B J Wilm
- Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
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Rabrait C, Ciuciu P, Ribés A, Poupon C, Le Roux P, Dehaine-Lambertz G, Le Bihan D, Lethimonnier F. High temporal resolution functional MRI using parallel echo volumar imaging. J Magn Reson Imaging 2008; 27:744-53. [PMID: 18383267 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To combine parallel imaging with 3D single-shot acquisition (echo volumar imaging, EVI) in order to acquire high temporal resolution volumar functional MRI (fMRI) data. MATERIALS AND METHODS An improved EVI sequence was associated with parallel acquisition and field of view reduction in order to acquire a large brain volume in 200 msec. Temporal stability and functional sensitivity were increased through optimization of all imaging parameters and Tikhonov regularization of parallel reconstruction. Two human volunteers were scanned with parallel EVI in a 1.5T whole-body MR system, while submitted to a slow event-related auditory paradigm. RESULTS Thanks to parallel acquisition, the EVI volumes display a low level of geometric distortions and signal losses. After removal of low-frequency drifts and physiological artifacts, activations were detected in the temporal lobes of both volunteers and voxelwise hemodynamic response functions (HRF) could be computed. On these HRF different habituation behaviors in response to sentence repetition could be identified. CONCLUSION This work demonstrates the feasibility of high temporal resolution 3D fMRI with parallel EVI. Combined with advanced estimation tools, this acquisition method should prove useful to measure neural activity timing differences or study the nonlinearities and nonstationarities of the BOLD response.
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Xu D, Cunningham CH, Chen AP, Li Y, Kelley DAC, Mukherjee P, Pauly JM, Nelson SJ, Vigneron DB. Phased array 3D MR spectroscopic imaging of the brain at 7 T. Magn Reson Imaging 2008; 26:1201-6. [PMID: 18486386 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2007] [Revised: 03/17/2008] [Accepted: 03/17/2008] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Ultra-high-field 7 T magnetic resonance (MR) scanners offer the potential for greatly improved MR spectroscopic imaging due to increased sensitivity and spectral resolution. Prior 7 T human single-voxel MR Spectroscopy (MRS) studies have shown significant increases in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and spectral resolution as compared to lower magnetic fields but have not demonstrated the increase in spatial resolution and multivoxel coverage possible with 7 T MR spectroscopic imaging. The goal of this study was to develop specialized radiofrequency (RF) pulses and sequences for three-dimensional (3D) MR spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) at 7 T to address the challenges of increased chemical shift misregistration, B1 power limitations, and increased spectral bandwidth. The new 7 T MRSI sequence was tested in volunteer studies and demonstrated the feasibility of obtaining high-SNR phased-array 3D MRSI from the human brain.
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- Duan Xu
- Joint UCSF/UC Berkeley Graduate Group in Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, CA 94143, USA.
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