Acquiring diagnostic images of a patient’s vasculature can be difficult and time consuming. Some magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques employ contrast-enhancing agents, such as gadolinium, tha...
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Iron is an essential nutrient for the human body but is toxic in excess. Iron overload is a particular hazard to patients requiring regular blood transfusions. Treatment for patients with iron overloa...
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Visualizing a patient’s heart by non-invasive cardiovascular imaging is a powerful tool for diagnosis and therapy. Yet the heart’s movement and small branching arteries make quality cardiac imagin...
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MRI produces medically valuable images of a patient’s internals using magnetic fields and pulses that align and excite nuclei. The signals emitted by excited nuclei can be measured in ‘k-space’ ...
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of metallic implants can be challenging because metal and surrounding tissue impact the main magnetic field differently. Such magnetic field inhomogeneities cause off-...
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A leading method for reducing motion blurring in medical imaging is called PROPELLER (Periodically Rotated Overlapping ParallEL Lines with Enhanced Reconstruction). It allows doctors to track and help...
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Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI) is a clinical procedure that can yield imaging biomarkers more sensitive and specific to underlying disease than regular MRI. It works by fitting images ...
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Chemical shift-based multi-echo water-fat separation methods have seen increased use in routine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) clinical applications. These methods involve collecting multiple echoes...
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Visualizing a body’s internal structures by MRI is an essential clinical practice. Yet acquiring images in the presence of metal, like the steel screws of an implant, remains challenging because of ...
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Elucidating the workings and development of the brain remains a fertile topic of investigation and one reliant on non-invasive visualization technology like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). As app...
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An excess of visceral adipose tissue (VAT), or fat stored in the abdomen, is known to be a dominant risk factor in developing metabolic syndrome, the not fully understood clustering of metabolic and c...
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Generating a set of uniformly-distributed points on the surface of a sphere via a deterministic scheme is important for biomedical imaging and engineering applications, especially MR imaging. A point ...
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) utilizes the signal induced by excited spins when human tissue is subjected to a uniform magnetic field. The individual magnetic moments of the nuclear spins in the ti...
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Current MRI techniques to obtain images of rapidly changing anatomies such as the beating heart or to monitor the flow of fluids such as contrast agents through organs and peripheral vasculature acqui...
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Fat quantification using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has important clinical applications including the early diagnosis and quantitative staging of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Compa...
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Mapping of effective transverse relaxation rate (R2*) relaxivity has important applications in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) including blood oxygenation level dependent functional imaging, detectio...
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Current MRI techniques to obtain images of rapidly changing anatomies such as the beating heart or to monitor the flow of fluids such as contrast agents through organs and peripheral vasculature acqui...
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UW–Madison researchers have previously developed “IDEAL,” a multi-echo chemical species separation technique that uses iterative decomposition of water and fat with echo asymmetry an...
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is highly sensitive to patient motion. Depending on the k-space acquisition trajectory, which determines at what positions of the spatial frequency domain data points ...
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Quantifying the amount of fat in the liver is crucial for the detection of non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases including steatosis, fibrosis, cirrhosis and liver failure.  Accurate fat measurement...
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique that takes measurements, or “views,” of a subject’s nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to form images of internal struct...
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Magnetic resonance (MR) has been utilized largely for medical diagnostic applications, but recent advancements have allowed it to replace many previously performed X-ray examinations.  Even more ...
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used to measure nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) from various substances in human tissue to produce medical images for qualitative and quantitative assessments.&nbs...
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Nuclear magnetic resonance is the property of magnetic nuclei used in medical imaging techniques like MRI to produce images. The nuclear magnetic resonance of water is known to be dependent on tempera...
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Phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging (PC MRI) can be used to improve diagnostic accuracy of vascular, musculoskeletal and cerebrospinal exams. PC MRI functions by receiving a signal emitted by th...
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