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Very small scanners for imaging specific body parts are also being developed. Other advancements are being made in the field of MRI. Functional MRI (fMRI), for example, creates brain maps of nerve cell activity second by second and is helping researchers better understand how the brain works. ...
However, scanning protocols need to be adapted to the scanners used, also because the relaxivity of the most commonly used contrast agents decreases at higher field strengths [8, 9]. Breast MRI at low and midfield strength (0.2 T, 0.5 T) depends heavily on parallel imaging to obtain a ...
MRI machines have blossomed in California in part because, like Florida--but unlike many other states--it does not regulate the proliferation of technology. As a result, the state has 370 MRI scanners--25 times more than all of Canada, which has a similar population. “Considering the number...
All subjects were asked to participate in scanning on two scanners. Five subjects per scanner were imaged using a test-retest protocol, with imaging repeated after a short toilet break. To evaluate the atlas in an automated tumour segmentation task, a dataset of relapsed/refractory large B-cell...
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All participants were subsampled from the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging (MCSA), where they had existing MRI research protocols on 3T Siemens Prisma scanners within 6 months of their enrollment, at which time we collected 5 photographs of their face with a standard iPad. This research protocol ...
This study aimed at developing technical recommendations for the acquisition, processing and analysis of renal ASL data in the human kidney at 1.5 T and 3 T field strengths that can promote standardization of renal perfusion measurements and facilitate the comparability of results across scanners and...
human MR scanners with higher field strength of 7 Tesla or more became more widespread. Higher field strength allows greater signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) (ref. 2) and, in return, enables increased spatial resolution. Increased spatial resolution of anatomical data may lead to superior quantificatio...
First, conventional preclinical and clinical MR scanners are typically not equipped for imaging low gamma nuclei. Hyperpolarization of exogenous 15N-labeled substrates overcomes the MR sensitivity problem, but other scanner-associated requirements in hardware (RF coils and frequency synthesizer) and software...