Variable delay multi-pulse train for fast chemical exchange saturation transfer and relayed-nuclear overhauser enhancement MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1798-1812

  Xu, Jiadi ^a,b   Yadav, Nirbhay N ^a,b   Bar Shir, Amnon ^a   Jones, Craig K ^a,b   Chan, Kannie W Y ^a,b   Zhang, Jiangyang ^a   Walczak, P ^a   McMahon, Michael T ^a,b   Van Zijl, Peter C M ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

APT; CEST; chemical exchange; contrast agent; exchange rate; magnetization transfer; MTC; pulsed CEST; relayed NOE; rNOE CEST; VDMP CEST

Indexed keywords

AMIDES; AMINO ACIDS; CHEMICAL DETECTION; CROSSLINKING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMALS; METABOLITES; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION;

CEST; CHEMICAL EXCHANGE; CONTRAST AGENT; EXCHANGE RATES; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER; PULSED CEST; RELAYED NOE; RNOE-CEST; VDMP-CEST;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; SERUM ALBUMIN; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL EXCHANGE SATURATION TRANSFER; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; PROTON TRANSPORT; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RAT; RELAXATION TIME; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VARIABLE DELAY MULTI PULSE TRAIN; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BRAIN LEVEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WISTAR RAT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84899444280     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24850     Document Type: Article

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