Positive contrast of SPIO-labeled cells by off-resonant reconstruction of 3D radial half-echo bSSFP

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 79-88

  Diwoky, Clemens ^a,b   Liebmann, Daniel ^c   Neumayer, Bernhard ^d   Reinisch, Andreas ^c,e   Knoll, Florian ^f   Strunk, Dirk ^c,g   Stollberger, Rudolf ^a,b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b BIOTECHMED GRAZ   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

3D radial half echo sampling; BSSFP; Off resonant reconstruction; Positive contrast; Stem cell tracking

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; STEM CELLS;

BSSFP; CELL TRACKING; CELLULAR SENSITIVITY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; PHANTOM MEASUREMENTS; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; POSITIVE CONTRAST; SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDES;

CYTOLOGY;

FERUCARBOTRAN; SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DEXTRAN; MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BALANCED STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION; CELL DENSITY; CELL LABELING; CELL TRACKING; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRADIENT RECALLED ECHO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHANTOM; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC USE; IMAGE QUALITY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STAINING; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DEXTRANS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLES; MICE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 84913616047     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3229     Document Type: Article

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