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
Accelerated acquisition of tagged MRI for cardiac motion correction in simultaneous PET‐MR: Phantom and patient studies
Huang C, Petibon Y, Ouyang J, Reese T, Ahlman M, Bluemke D, El Fakhri G. Accelerated acquisition of tagged MRI for cardiac motion correction in simultaneous PET‐MR: Phantom and patient studies. Medical Physics 2015, 42: 1087-1097. PMID: 25652521, PMCID: PMC4312342, DOI: 10.1118/1.4906247.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPET motion correctionMotion correctionSimultaneous PET-MRTMR dataPET list-mode dataPET-MRList-mode dataCardiac motion correctionPET-MR scannersImage qualityParallel imagingAcquisition timePET imagingRespiratory motionCompressive sensingMotion fieldAttenuation correctionDefect contrastModerate acceleration factorsDegradation of image qualityTagged MRCardiac phantomLong acquisition timesPhantomAccurate motion field