Numerical solution of the Bloch equations provides insights into the optimum design of PARACEST agents for MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 790-799

  Woessner, Donald E ^a   Zhang, Shanrong ^a   Merritt, Matthew E ^a   Sherry, A Dean ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bloch theory; CEST imaging; Contrast agents; MRI; PARACEST

Indexed keywords

AMIDES; CHEMICAL SHIFT; COORDINATION REACTIONS; FINANCE; PARAMAGNETISM;

ALGEBRAIC MANIPULATIONS; BLOCH THEORY; CHEMICAL EXCHANGE SATURATION TRANSFER; CONTRAST AGENT; NONLINEAR LEAST-SQUARE OPTIMIZATION; PARACEST; PARAMAGNETIC COMPLEXES; PARAMAGNETIC LANTHANIDE COMPLEXES;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; EUROPIUM; EUROPIUM 1,4,7,10 TETRAAZACYCLODODECANE 1,4,7,10 TETRAACETIC ACID TETRAAMIDE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DRUG DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMAGNETIC CHEMICAL EXCHANGE SATURATION TRANSFER IMAGING; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIOFREQUENCY; STEADY STATE;

EID: 16444362041     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20408     Document Type: Article

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