Quantitative susceptibility map** (QSM): decoding MRI data for a tissue magnetic biomarker

Y Wang, T Liu - Magnetic resonance in medicine, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In MRI, the main magnetic field polarizes the electron cloud of a molecule, generating a
chemical shift for observer protons within the molecule and a magnetic susceptibility …

Quantitative assessment of liver fat with magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy

SB Reeder, I Cruite, G Hamilton… - Journal of magnetic …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Hepatic steatosis is characterized by abnormal and excessive accumulation of lipids within
hepatocytes. It is an important feature of diffuse liver disease, and the histological hallmark …

[HTML][HTML] Altering the intestinal microbiota during a critical developmental window has lasting metabolic consequences

LM Cox, S Yamanishi, J Sohn, AV Alekseyenko… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Acquisition of the intestinal microbiota begins at birth, and a stable microbial community
develops from a succession of key organisms. Disruption of the microbiota during maturation …

Fat-suppression techniques for 3-T MR imaging of the musculoskeletal system

F Del Grande, F Santini, DA Herzka, MR Aro… - Radiographics, 2014 - pubs.rsna.org
Fat suppression is an important technique in musculoskeletal imaging to improve the
visibility of bone-marrow lesions; evaluate fat in soft-tissue masses; optimize the contrast-to …

Quantifying fat replacement of muscle by quantitative MRI in muscular dystrophy

J Burakiewicz, CDJ Sinclair, D Fischer, GA Walter… - Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
The muscular dystrophies are rare orphan diseases, characterized by progressive muscle
weakness: the most common and well known is Duchenne muscular dystrophy which affects …

Multiecho water‐fat separation and simultaneous R estimation with multifrequency fat spectrum modeling

H Yu, A Shimakawa, CA McKenzie… - … in Medicine: An …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Multiecho chemical shift–based water‐fat separation methods are seeing increasing clinical
use due to their ability to estimate and correct for field inhomogeneities. Previous chemical …

Iterative decomposition of water and fat with echo asymmetry and least‐squares estimation (IDEAL): application with fast spin‐echo imaging

SB Reeder, AR Pineda, Z Wen… - … in Medicine: An …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Chemical shift based methods are often used to achieve uniform water–fat separation that is
insensitive to Bo inhomogeneities. Many spin‐echo (SE) or fast SE (FSE) approaches …

Dixon techniques for water and fat imaging

J Ma - Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: An Official …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
In 1984, Dixon published a first paper on a simple spectroscopic imaging technique for
water and fat separation. The technique acquires two separate images with a modified spin …

Calculation of susceptibility through multiple orientation sampling (COSMOS): a method for conditioning the inverse problem from measured magnetic field map to …

T Liu, P Spincemaille, L De Rochefort… - … in Medicine: An …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic susceptibility differs among tissues based on their contents of iron, calcium,
contrast agent, and other molecular compositions. Susceptibility modifies the magnetic field …

Robust water/fat separation in the presence of large field inhomogeneities using a graph cut algorithm

D Hernando, P Kellman, JP Haldar… - Magnetic Resonance in …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Water/fat separation is a classical problem for in vivo proton MRI. Although many methods
have been proposed to address this problem, robust water/fat separation remains a …