Introduction The overlap of spectra in magnetic resonance spectroscopy limits the unambiguous identification and quantification of metabolites. Two of the most employed approaches involve fitting with a known basis set [1] and spectral editing [2]. Alternatively, multidimensional correlation spectroscopy [3] does not need to assume a certain basis set, nor needs to filter-out metabolites as in ...

The discrete Fourier transform (FT) is a conventional method for spatial reconstruction of chemical shifting imaging (CSI) data. Due to point spread function (PSF) effects, FT reconstruction leads to intervoxel signal leakage (Gibbs ringing). Spectral localization by imaging (SLIM) reconstruction was previously proposed to overcome this intervoxel signal contamination. However, the existence of...

Introduction – Distinction between viable and non-viable myocardium is essential for diagnosis and treatment of patients with coronary artery disease. Delayed contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI has become the gold standard to determine the size of chronic infarcts. However, although T2-weigthed MRI shows great promise to delineate the area at risk after the event related to the formation of edema, the...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Pick complex (PC) is the name given to a group of diseases comprising Pick disease and its variations, all of which have a large degree of pathologic and clinical overlap. Because of this overlap, the observation of neuropathologic changes in vivo is difficult, although these changes play important roles in the criteria used for classification. The purpose of this study w...

A fast chemical-shift imaging using the gradient-echo technique is proposed for the separation of the water and fat in human in vivo imaging. This technique also incorporates magnetic field inhomogeneity correction in the fast chemical-shift imaging. Experimental results of the proposed imaging technique demonstrate that the method would be useful for quick in vivo water-fat separation imaging ...