Prospect of high-field MRI

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 115-122

  Wada, Hitoshi ^a   Sekino, Masaki ^b   Ohsaki, Hiroyuki ^b   Hisatsune, Tatsuhiro ^b   Ikehira, Hiroo ^c   Kiyoshi, Tsukasa ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Nb 3Sn; NbTi; Superconducting magnet

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION RATES; BIOCHEMICAL PROCESS; BIOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; BODY STRUCTURE; FIELD STRENGTHS; HIGH FIELD MRI; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUMAN BODIES; IN-SITU; IN-VIVO; LARGE DATA; MAGNET TECHNOLOGY; METABOLIC REACTIONS; MRI MAGNETS; NB 3SN; ORGANIC MOLECULES; PARADIGM SHIFTS; WHOLE BODY MRI;

ELECTROMAGNETS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METABOLISM; PARTICLE DETECTORS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TIN;

SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS;

EID: 77952952440     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2010.2043939     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (19)

1. P. C. Lauterbur,"Image formation by induced local interactions: Examples employing nuclear magnetic resonance," Nature, vol.242, pp. 190-191, 1973.
2. P. Mansfield and A. A. Maudsley,"Medical imaging by NMR," Br. J. Radiol., vol.50, pp. 188-194, March 1977.
3. W. A. Edelstein, J. M. Hutchison, G. Johnson, and T. Redpath,"Spin warp NMR imaging and applications to human whole-body imaging," Phys. Med. Biol., vol.25, pp. 751-756, July 1980.
4. F. W. Smith, J. M. Hutchison, J. R. Mallard, G. Johnson, T. W. Redpath, R. D. Selbie, A. Reid, and C. C. Smith,"Oesophageal carcinoma demonstrated by whole-body nuclear magnetic resonance imaging," Br. Med. J., vol.282, pp. 510-512, February 1981.
5. T.Vaughan, L. Delabarre, C. Snyder, J. Tian, C. Akgun, D. Shrivastava, W. Liu, C. Olson, G. Adriany, J. Strupp, P. Andersen, A. Gopinath, P. F. van de Moortele, M. Garwood, and K. Ugurbil,"9.4 T human MRI: Preliminary results," Magn. Reson. Med., vol.56, pp. 1274-1282, December 2006.
6. P. Vedrine, G. Aubert, F. Beaudet, J. Belorgey, J. Beltramelli, C. Berriaud, P. Bredy, P. Chesny, A. Donati, G. Gilgrass, G. Grunblatt, F. P. Juster, F. Molinie, C. Meuris, F. Nunio, A. Payn, L. Quettier, J. M. Rey, T. Schild, and A. Sinanna,"The whole body 11.7 T MRI magnet for Iseult/INUMAC project," IEEE Trans. Appl. Superconduct., vol.18, pp. 868-873, June 2008.
7. National Institute of Radiological Science Press report HP [Online]. Available: http://www.nirs.go.jp/news/press/2004/11-19.shtml, November 2004
8. D. Hoult, Sensitivity of the NMR Experiment; Encyclopedia of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. : John Wiley, vol.7, pp. 4256-4266, edit.
9. D. Le Bihan,"Looking into the functional architecture of the brain with diffusion MRI," Nat. Rev. Neurosci., vol.4, pp. 469-480, June 2003.
10. A. Otsuka and T. Kiyoshi,"High-field magnet design under constant hoop stress," IEEE Trans. Appl. Superconduct., vol.18, pp. 1529-1532, 2008.
11. W. A. Hall and C. L. Truwit,"Intraoperative MR-guided neurosurgery," J. Magn. Reson. Imaging, vol.27, pp. 368-375, February 2008.
12. J. F. Schenck, F. A. Jolesz, P. B. Roemer, H. E. Cline, W. E. Lorensen, R. Kikinis, S. G. Silverman, C. J. Hardy, W. D. Barber, and E. T. Laskaris et al.,"Superconducting open-configuration MR imaging system for image-guided therapy," Radiology, vol.195, pp. 805-814, June 1995.
13. H. Zhao, S. Crozier, and D. M. Doddrell,"Asymmetric MRI magnet design using a hybrid numerical method," J. Magn. Reson., vol.141, pp. 340-346, December 1999.
14. M. Sekino, H. Ohsaki, H. Wada, T. Hisatsune, O. Ozaki, and T. Kiyoshi,"Fabrication of an MRI model magnet with an off-centered distribution of homogeneous magnetic field zone," presented at the MT-21, 2009.
15. M. Higuchi, N. Iwata, Y. Matsuba, K. Sato, K. Sasamoto, and T. C. Saido," MRI detection of amyloid beta plaques in vivo," Nat. Neurosci., vol.8, pp. 527-533, April 2005.
16. M. Modica, S. Angius, L. Bertora, D. Damiani, M. Marabotto, D. Nardelli, M. Perrella, M. Razeti, and M. Tassisto,"Design, construction and tests of MgB coils for the development of a cryogen free magnet," IEEE Trans. Appl. Superconduct., vol.17, pp. 2196-2199, June 2007.
17. T. Fukuzaki, H. Maeda, S. Matsumoto, S. Yokoyama, and T. Kiyoshi,"Study of joint resistance in Nb Al-NbTi superconducting joint for high field NMR," IEEE Trans. Appl. Superconduct., vol.17, pp. 1435-1437, June 2007.
18. H. Kitaguchi, O. Ozaki, M. Hamada, N. Ayai, K. Sato, S. Urayama, and H. Fukuyama,"Development of a Bi-2223 HTS magnet for 3T MRI system for human brains," presented at the MT-21, 2009.
19. T. Kiyoshi, M. Hamada, M. Hosono, M. Takahashi, T. Yamazaki, and H. Maeda,"HTS-NMR: Present status and future plan," presented at the MT-21, 2009.