2024
Free‐breathing 3D cardiac extracellular volume (ECV) mapping using a linear tangent space alignment (LTSA) model
Lee W, Han P, Marin T, Mounime I, Eslahi S, Djebra Y, Chi D, Bijari F, Normandin M, Fakhri G, Ma C. Free‐breathing 3D cardiac extracellular volume (ECV) mapping using a linear tangent space alignment (LTSA) model. Magnetic Resonance In Medicine 2024 PMID: 39402014, DOI: 10.1002/mrm.30284.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchExtracellular volume mappingContrast agent injectionExtracellular volumeGradient echo readoutECV mapsAgent injectionWhole heartEcho readoutExtracellular volume valuesVoxel-by-voxelInversion recovery sequenceSpatial resolutionScan timeImaging timeIn vivo studiesHealthy volunteersModel-based methodsRecovery sequenceInjectionReadout
2023
Arterial spin labeled perfusion imaging with balanced steady-state free precession readout and radial sampling
Han P, Marin T, Zhuo Y, Ouyang J, El Fakhri G, Ma C. Arterial spin labeled perfusion imaging with balanced steady-state free precession readout and radial sampling. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2023, 102: 126-132. PMID: 37187264, PMCID: PMC10524790, DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2023.05.005.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsOff-resonance effectsBalanced steady-state free precessionPhase-cycling techniqueTemporal SNRBalanced steady-state free precession acquisitionRadial sampling schemeSpoiled gradient-recalled acquisitionRadial samplingCartesian sampling schemeBalanced steady-state free precession readoutK-space dataSampling schemeSpin labelingSteady-state free precessionK-spaceImage readoutBanding artifactsMotion-related artifactsReadoutFree precessionArterial spin labelingImage reconstructionParallel imagingImaging timePerfusion-weighted imaging
2015
Whole‐brain perfusion imaging with balanced steady‐state free precession arterial spin labeling
Han P, Ye J, Kim E, Choi S, Park S. Whole‐brain perfusion imaging with balanced steady‐state free precession arterial spin labeling. NMR In Biomedicine 2015, 29: 264-274. PMID: 26676386, DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3463.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSignal-to-noise ratioBalanced steady-state free precessionTotal scan timeCompressive sensingReduced susceptibility artifactsPerfusion imagingWhole-brain perfusion imagingScan timeSusceptibility artifactsPseudo-continuous ASLReadout timeCS approachSteady-state free precessionAcquisition of perfusion imagesSegmentation approachFree precessionBSSFP readoutArterial spin labeling (ASL) perfusionSpatial resolutionImage qualityDistortion-freeReadoutHigh-resolutionTemporal resolutionImages