Functional MR Imaging at 1.5T.

Functional MR imaging on an open 1T MR imaging system: exploiting the advantages of an open MR imaging system for functional MR imaging.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Open MR imaging scanners are designed for imaging of specific patient groups that cannot be routinely scanned with conventional MR imaging scanners (eg, patients with obesity and claustrophobia). This study aims to determine whether BOLD sensitivity on an open 1T scanner is adequate for fMRI for diagnostic and research purposes by directly comparing fMRI results with a st...

Functional connectivity MR imaging: fact or artifact?

Multidisciplinary Functional MR Imaging for Prostate Cancer

Various functional magnetic resonance (MR) imaging techniques are used for evaluating prostate cancer including diffusion-weighted imaging, dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging, and MR spectroscopy. These techniques provide unique information that is helpful to differentiate prostate cancer from non-cancerous tissue and have been proven to improve the diagnostic performance of MRI not only for ...

Functional MR imaging of the uterus.

Recent developments in MR imaging techniques have enabled the functional assessment of the uterus. Cine MR imaging is a useful tool for evaluating uterine kinematic functions derived from myometrial contractility, and for investigating the alteration of uterine contractility in a variety of conditions and gynecologic disorders. Diffusion-weighted imaging can demonstrate abnormal signal in patho...

Explorative signal processing in functional MR imaging

Identification and separation of artifacts as well as quantification of expected, i.e., stimulus-correlated, and novel information on brain activity are important for both new insights in neuroscience and future developments in functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the human brain. Here, we present several examples in which gross head motion or physiologic motion (e.g., pulsation, resp...