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    Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Volume 29, Issue 1

    1-249
    January 2009
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Original Research

Fast 3D 1H MRSI of the corticospinal tract in pediatric brain

Dong-Hyun Kim PhD,  Meng Gu MS,  Charles Cunningham PhD,  Albert Chen MS,  Fiona Baumer BS,  Orit A. Glenn MD,  Daniel B. Vigneron PhD,  Daniel Mark Spielman PhD,  Anthony James Barkovich MD, 
  • Pages: 1-6
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Three-dimensional dynamic time-resolved contrast-enhanced MRA using parallel imaging and a variable rate k-space sampling strategy in intracranial arteriovenous malformations

Mina Petkova MD,  Jean-Yves Gauvrit MD, PhD,  Denis Trystram MD,  François Nataf MD,  Sylvie Godon-Hardy MD,  Thierry Munier MSc,  Catherine Oppenheim MD, PhD,  Jean-François Meder MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 7-12
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Computational and experimental optimization of a double-tuned 1H/31P four-ring birdcage head coil for MRS at 3T

Yunsuo Duan PhD,  Bradley S. Peterson MD,  Feng Liu PhD,  Truman R. Brown PhD,  Tamer S. Ibrahim PhD,  Alayar Kangarlu PhD, 
  • Pages: 13-22
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Imaging age-related cognitive decline: A comparison of diffusion tensor and magnetization transfer MRI

Francesca Schiavone MSc,  Rebecca Ann Charlton PhD,  Thomas Richard Barrick PhD,  Robin Guy Morris PhD,  Hugh Stephen Markus DM, FRCP, 
  • Pages: 23-30
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Magnetic resonance imaging enhanced by superparamagnetic iron oxide particles: Usefulness for distinguishing between focused ultrasound-induced blood–brain barrier disruption and brain hemorrhage

Hao-Li Liu PhD,  Po-Hong Hsu MSc,  Po-Chun Chu BSc,  Yau-Yau Wai MD,  Jin-Chung Chen PhD,  Chia-Rui Shen PhD,  Tzu-Chen Yen MD, PhD,  Jiun-Jie Wang PhD, 
  • Pages: 31-38
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Combination of Mn2+-enhanced and diffusion tensor MR imaging gives complementary information about injury and regeneration in the adult rat optic nerve

Marte Thuen PhD,  Øystein Olsen MSc,  Martin Berry MD, DSc,  Tina Bugge Pedersen,  Anders Kristoffersen PhD,  Olav Haraldseth MD, PhD,  Axel Sandvig MD, PhD,  Christian Brekken PhD, 
  • Pages: 39-51
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Contrast agent dose effects in cerebral dynamic susceptibility contrast magnetic resonance perfusion imaging

Jeffry R. Alger PhD,  Timothy J. Schaewe DSc,  Tom C. Lai BS,  Andrew J. Frew PhD,  Paul M. Vespa MD,  Maria Etchepare RN,  David S. Liebeskind MD,  Jeffrey L. Saver MD,  S. Chelsea Kidwell MD, 
  • Pages: 52-64
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Visualization of the lenticulostriate artery with flow-sensitive black-blood acquisition in comparison with time-of-flight MR angiography

Kimio Gotoh MD,  Tomohisa Okada MD, PhD,  Yukio Miki MD, PhD,  Masato Ikedo BS,  Ayako Ninomiya RT,  Toshikazu Kamae MS,  Kaori Togashi MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 65-69
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Caudate nuclei volume, diffusion tensor metrics, and T2 relaxation in healthy adults and relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients: Implications for understanding gray matter degeneration†

Khader M. Hasan PhD,  Christopher Halphen BA,  Arash Kamali MD,  Flavia M. Nelson MD,  Jerry S. Wolinsky MD,  Ponnada A. Narayana MD, 
  • Pages: 70-77
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Multicompartmental analysis of late contrast enhancement in areas of myocardial infarction supplied by chronically occluded coronary arteries

Damien Mandry MD,  Françoise Lapicque PhD,  Freddy Odille PhD,  Wassila Djaballah MD,  Andrei Codreanu MD,  Jean-Marie Escanyé PhD,  Jacques Felblinger PhD,  Gilles Karcher MD,  Michel Claudon MD,  Pierre-Yves Marie MD, 
  • Pages: 78-85
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

3D coronary motion tracking in swine models with MR tracking catheters

Ehud J. Schmidt PhD,  Ryuichi Yoneyama MD, PhD,  Charles L. Dumoulin PhD,  Robert D. Darrow MS,  Eric Klein MS,  Andrew J.M. Kiruluta PhD,  Motoya Hayase MD, 
  • Pages: 86-98
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Strain-encoded (SENC) magnetic resonance imaging to evaluate regional heterogeneity of myocardial strain in healthy volunteers: Comparison with conventional tagging

Mirja Neizel MD,  Dirk Lossnitzer MD,  Grigorios Korosoglou MD,  Tim Schäufele MD,  Antje Lewien,  Henning Steen MD,  Hugo A. Katus PhD,  Nael F. Osman PhD,  Evangelos Giannitsis MD, 
  • Pages: 99-105
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Safety of ferucarbotran in MR imaging of the liver: A pre- and postexamination questionnaire-based multicenter investigation

Hiromitsu Onishi MD, PhD,  Takamichi Murakami MD, PhD,  Tonsok Kim MD,  Masatoshi Hori MD, PhD,  Shinji Hirohashi MD, PhD,  Mitsuru Matsuki MD, PhD,  Yoshifumi Narumi MD, PhD,  Yasuharu Imai MD, PhD,  Kousuke Sakurai MD, PhD,  Hironobu Nakamura MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 106-111
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Diagnostic utility of diffusion-weighted MR imaging and apparent diffusion coefficient value for the diagnosis of adrenal tumors

Yoshito Tsushima MD,  Ayako Takahashi-Taketomi MD,  Keigo Endo MD, 
  • Pages: 112-117
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Retrospective 3D registration of trabecular bone MR images for longitudinal studies

Jeremy F. Magland PhD,  Catherine E. Jones PhD,  Mary B. Leonard MD, MSCE,  Felix W. Wehrli PhD, 
  • Pages: 118-126
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Phosphorus-31 magnetic resonance spectroscopy of skeletal muscle in maternally inherited diabetes and deafness A3243G mitochondrial mutation carriers

Saskia G.C. van Elderen MD,  Joost Doornbos PhD,  Einar H.R. van Essen MD,  Herman H.P.J. Lemkes MD,  J. Antonie Maassen PhD,  Jan W.A. Smit MD,  Albert de Roos MD, 
  • Pages: 127-131
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Advances of 3T MR imaging in visualizing trabecular bone structure of the calcaneus are partially SNR-independent: Analysis using simulated noise in relation to micro-CT, 1.5T MRI, and biomechanical strength

Jan S. Bauer MD,  Roberto Monetti PhD,  Roland Krug PhD,  Maiko Matsuura MS,  Dirk Mueller MD,  Felix Eckstein MD,  Ernst J. Rummeny MD,  Eva-Maria Lochmueller MD,  Christoph W. Raeth PhD,  Thomas M. Link MD, 
  • Pages: 132-140
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Clinical evaluation of automated scan prescription of knee MR images

Frederic E. Lecouvet MD, PhD,  Jérôme Claus MD,  Patrick Schmitz RT,  Vincent Denolin PhD,  Clemens Bos PhD,  Bruno C. Vande Berg MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 141-145
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Restricted canonical correlation analysis in functional MRI—validation and a novel thresholding technique

Mattias Ragnehed MSc,  Maria Engström PhD,  Hans Knutsson PhD,  Birgita Söderfeldt PhD, MD,  Peter Lundberg PhD, 
  • Pages: 146-154
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Optimum fuzzy filters for phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging segmentation

Kartik S. Sundareswaran MS,  David H. Frakes PhD,  Mark A. Fogel MD,  Dennis D. Soerensen MS,  John N. Oshinski PhD,  Ajit P. Yoganathan PhD, 
  • Pages: 155-165
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Improved bolus arrival time and arterial input function estimation for tracer kinetic analysis in DCE-MRI

Anup Singh PhD,  Ram K. Singh Rathore PhD,  Mohammad Haris PhD,  Sanjay K. Verma MSc,  Nuzhat Husain MD,  Rakesh K. Gupta MD, 
  • Pages: 166-176
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Clinical Note

Identification of calcification with MRI using susceptibility-weighted imaging: A case study

Zhen Wu MS,  Sandeep Mittal MD,  Karl Kish MD,  Yingjian Yu MS,  J. Hu PhD,  E. Mark Haacke PhD, 
  • Pages: 177-182
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Technical Notes

Cerebral blood flow estimation in vivo using local tissue reference functions†

Jayme Cameron Kosior BSc,  Michael R. Smith PhD,  Robert Karl Kosior BSc,  Richard Frayne PhD, 
  • Pages: 183-188
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

New coil positioning method for interleaved transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)/functional MRI (fMRI) and its validation in a motor cortex study

Marius Moisa MS,  Rolf Pohmann PhD,  Lars Ewald MS,  Axel Thielscher PhD, 
  • Pages: 189-197
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Increased SNR and reduced distortions by averaging multiple gradient echo signals in 3D FLASH imaging of the human brain at 3T

Gunther Helms PhD,  Peter Dechent PhD, 
  • Pages: 198-204
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Absolute blood contrast concentration and blood signal saturation on myocardial perfusion MRI: Estimation from CT data

Masaki Ishida MD,  Hajime Sakuma MD,  Shuichi Murashima MD,  Junko Nishida MD,  Masayo Senga MD,  Shigeki Kobayasi MD,  Kan Takeda MD,  Noriyuki Kato MD, 
  • Pages: 205-210
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Novel technique used to detect swallowing in volume-selective turbo spin-echo (TSE) for carotid artery wall imaging

Cheuk F. Chan MBBS, MRCP,  Peter D. Gatehouse PhD,  Ray Hughes MSc,  Michael Roughton MSc,  Dudley J. Pennell MD, FRCP,  David N. Firmin PhD, 
  • Pages: 211-216
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Calibrated magnetic resonance hydrometry to quantify pancreatic juice: A preliminary study

En-hao Jin MD, PhD,  Tomoaki Ichikawa MD, PhD,  Sukru Mehmet Erturk MD,  Utaroh Motosugi MD, PhD,  Masaya Hirano MD, PhD,  Tsutomu Araki MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 217-220
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Susceptibility compensated fMRI study using a tailored RF echo planar imaging sequence

Jun-Young Chung PhD,  Hyo Woon Yoon PhD,  Young-Bo Kim MD, PhD,  Hyun Wook Park PhD,  Zang-Hee Cho PhD, 
  • Pages: 221-228
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Stimulation threshold comparison of time-varying magnetic pulses with different waveforms

Werner Irnich PhD,  Franz X. Hebrank PhD, 
  • Pages: 229-236
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Diffusion measurements and diffusion tensor imaging with noisy magnitude data

Anders Kristoffersen, 
  • Pages: 237-241
  • First Published: 18 December 2008

Higher-order contrast functions improve performance of independent component analysis of fMRI data

Vincent J. Schmithorst PhD, 
  • Pages: 242-249
  • First Published: 18 December 2008