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Andriy Fedorov Jacob Fluckiger Gregory D. Ayers Xia Li Sandeep N. Gupta Clare Tempany Robert Mulkern Thomas E. Yankeelov Fiona M. Fennessy 《Magnetic resonance imaging》2014
Multi-parametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and specifically Dynamic Contrast Enhanced (DCE) MRI, play increasingly important roles in detection and staging of prostate cancer (PCa). One of the actively investigated approaches to DCE MRI analysis involves pharmacokinetic (PK) modeling to extract quantitative parameters that may be related to microvascular properties of the tissue. It is well-known that the prescribed arterial blood plasma concentration (or Arterial Input Function, AIF) input can have significant effects on the parameters estimated by PK modeling. The purpose of our study was to investigate such effects in DCE MRI data acquired in a typical clinical PCa setting. First, we investigated how the choice of a semi-automated or fully automated image-based individualized AIF (iAIF) estimation method affects the PK parameter values; and second, we examined the use of method-specific averaged AIF (cohort-based, or cAIF) as a means to attenuate the differences between the two AIF estimation methods. 相似文献
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We consider a collapsing spherically symmetric inhomogeneous dust cloud in higher dimensional space-time. We show that the
central singularity of collapse can be a strong curvature or a weak curvature naked singularity depending on the initial density
distribution. 相似文献
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The addition of a spin-lock preparatory sequence to a Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) imaging sequence provides a method which allows an accurate and simple comparison of T1p and T2 contrast. Sagittal and axial brain images, produced with the application of a three pulse preparatory spin-lock sequence prior to a sixteen-echo CPMG imaging sequence, are compared with images acquired without the spin-lock sequence. The CPMG sequence uses non-selective refocusing pulses. Therefore, observed echo signals accurately reflect T2 relaxation. This allows a convenient method for assessing the degree to which T1p and T2 contrast differ. The spin-lock CPMG (SL-CPMG) images were acquired with a spin-locking field amplitude of 0.4 G and resemble heavily T2-weighted images at 0.15 T. Quantitative analyses of signal intensities from edema and normal brain tissue confirm the qualitative observations. This in vivo method should prove useful for determining when the additional RF power deposition associated with spin-locking techniques will provide an alternate form of tissue contrast than that available from additional echo collection. 相似文献
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Mulkern RV Davis PE Haker SJ Estepar RS Panych LP Maier SE Rivkin MJ 《Magnetic resonance imaging》2006,24(4):463-474
Studying the intersection of brain structure and function is an important aspect of modern neuroscience. The development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) over the last 25 years has provided new and powerful tools for the study of brain structure and function. Two tools in particular, diffusion imaging and functional MRI (fMRI), are playing increasingly important roles in elucidating the complementary aspects of brain structure and function. In this work, we review basic technical features of diffusion imaging and fMRI for studying the integrity of white matter structural components and for determining the location and extent of cortical activation in gray matter, respectively. We then review a growing body of literature in which the complementary aspects of diffusion imaging and fMRI, applied as separate examinations but analyzed in tandem, have been exploited to enhance our knowledge of brain structure and function. 相似文献
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The scattering of incident plane elastic waves by a varietyof different defects that lie upon a fluid-solid interface isconsidered here using matched asymptotic expansions. The expansionscheme is developed in terms of a parameter , the ratio of typicaldefect length scale to a typical wavelength of the incidentfield, taken to be small. Three different canonical situations occur and these are illustratedvia three specific examples treated here: a rigid strut, anedge crack, and a rigid strip. In each case the leading-ordermatching is performed to identify the leading-order contributionof the defect to the acoustic field in the far field. In particular,each defect is identified with a source of dipole response ininterfacial stress of displacement. It is shown in the limit as s<<s1 that in the inner problemsthe fluid and solid pieces uncouple in a particularly convenientmanner allowing analytical solutions to be deduced. These arethen matched with appropriate outer solutions. 相似文献
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We report a method for mapping apparent diffusion coefficients using two interleaved CPMG sequences. Image slice selection is performed prior to each sequence, allowing the use of non-selective “hard” refocussing pulses. Phase cycling of the slice-selection process for each projection minimizes out-of-slice contributions to echo amplitudes. This permits an accurate evaluation of both T2 and apparent proton self-diffusion coefficients. 相似文献
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R V Mulkern S Vajapeyam R L Robertson P A Caruso M J Rivkin S E Maier 《Magnetic resonance imaging》2001,19(5):659-668
The decay of brain water signal with b-factor in adult and newborn brains has been measured over an extended b-factor range. Measurements of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) decay curves were made at 16 b-factors from 100 to 5000 s/mm(2) along three orthogonal directions using a line scan diffusion imaging (LSDI) sequence to acquire data from 0.09 ml voxels in a mid-brain axial slice. Regions-of-interest (ROIs) in cortical gray (CG) and white matter in the internal capsule (IC) were selected for ADC decay curve analyses using a biexponential fitting model over this extended b-factor range. Measures of the fast and slow ADC component amplitudes and the traces of the fast and slow diffusion coefficients were obtained from CG and IC ROIs in both adults and newborns. The ADC decay curves from the newborn brain regions were found to have a significantly higher fraction of the fast diffusion ADC component than corresponding regions in the adult brain. The results demonstrate that post-natal brain development has a profound affect on the biexponential parameters which characterize the decay of water signal over an extended b-factor range in both gray and white matter. 相似文献
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Zaid Q. Ababneh Helene Beloeil Charles B. Berde Anas M. Ababneh Stephan E. Maier Robert V. Mulkern 《Magnetic resonance imaging》2009
The diffusion coefficient of lipids, Dl, within bone marrow, fat deposits and metabolically active intracellular lipids in vivo will depend on several factors including the precise chemical composition of the lipid distribution (chain lengths, degree of unsaturation, etc.) as well as the temperature. As such, Dl may ultimately prove of value in assessing abnormal fatty acid distributions linked to diseases such as cystic fibrosis, diabetes and coronary heart disease. A sensitive temperature dependence of Dl may also prove of value for MR-guided thermal therapies for bone tumors or disease within other fatty tissues like the breast. Measuring diffusion coefficients of high molecular weight lipids in vivo is, however, technically difficult for a number of reasons. For instance, due to the much lower diffusion coefficients compared to water, much higher b factors than those used for central nervous system applications are needed. In addition, the pulse sequence design must incorporate, as much as possible, immunity to motion, susceptibility and chemical shift effects present whenever body imaging is performed. In this work, high b-factor line scan diffusion imaging sequences were designed, implemented and tested for Dl measurement using a 4.7-T horizontal bore animal scanner. The gradient set available allowed for b factors as high as 0.03 μs/nm2 (30,000 s/mm2) at echo times as short as 42 ms. The methods were used to measure lipid diffusion coefficients within the marrow of rat paws in vivo, yielding lipid diffusion coefficients approximately two orders of magnitude smaller than typical tissue water diffusion coefficients. Phantom experiments that demonstrate the sensitivity of lipid diffusion coefficients to chain length and temperature were also performed. 相似文献
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Shinmoto H Oshio K Tanimoto A Higuchi N Okuda S Kuribayashi S Mulkern RV 《Magnetic resonance imaging》2009,27(3):355-359
Purpose
The purpose of this study was to investigate the need for biexponential signal decay modeling for prostate cancer diffusion signal decays with b-factor over an extended b-factor range.Materials and Methods
Ten healthy volunteers and 12 patients with a bulky prostate cancer underwent line scan diffusion-weighted MR imaging in which b-factors from 0 to 3000 s/mm2 in 16 steps were sampled. The acquired signal decay curves were fit with both monoexponential and biexponential signal decay functions and a statistical comparison between the two fits was performed.Results
The biexponential model provided a statistically better fit over the monoexponential model on the peripheral zone (PZ), transitional zone (TZ) and prostate cancer. The fast and slow apparent diffusion coefficients (ADCs) in the PZ, TZ and cancer were 2.9±0.2, 0.7±0.2×10−3 mm2/ms (PZ); 2.9±0.4, 0.7±0.2×10−3 mm2/ms (TZ); and 1.7±0.4, 0.3±0.1×10−3 mm2/ms (cancer), respectively. The apparent fractions of the fast diffusion component in the PZ, TZ and cancer were 70±10%, 60±10% and 50±10%, respectively. The fast and slow ADCs of cancer were significantly lower than those of TZ and PZ, and the apparent fraction of the fast diffusion component was significantly smaller in cancer than in PZ.Conclusions
Biexponential diffusion decay functions are required for prostate cancer diffusion signal decay curves when sampled over an extended b-factor range, providing additional, unique tissue characterization parameters for prostate cancer. 相似文献10.
Interest in the manner in which brain tissue signal decays with b factor in diffusion imaging schemes has grown in recent years following the observation that the decay curves depart from purely monoexponential decay behavior. Regardless of the model or fitting function proposed for characterizing sufficiently sampled decay curves (vide infra), the departure from monoexponentiality spells increased tissue characterization potential. The degree to which this potential can be harnessed to improve specificity, sensitivity and spatial localization of diseases in brain, and other tissues, largely remains to be explored. Furthermore, the degree to which currently popular diffusion tensor imaging methods, including visually impressive white matter fiber “tractography” results, have almost completely ignored the nonmonoexponential nature of the basic signal decay with b factor is worthy of communal introspection. Here we limit our attention to a review of the basic experimental features associated with brain water signal diffusion decay curves as measured over extended b-factor ranges, the simple few parameter fitting functions that have been proposed to characterize these decays and the more involved models, e.g.,“ruminations,” which have been proposed to account for the nonmonoexponentiality to date. 相似文献