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Tissue Characterization in MR Imaging

Clinical and Technical Approaches

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. H. Peter Higer

    1. MRI Department, Deutsche Klinik für Diagnostik, Wiesbaden, Germany

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  2. Gernot Bielke

    1. MRI Department, Deutsche Klinik für Diagnostik, Wiesbaden, Germany

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Table of contents (53 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • H. P. Higer
      Pages 1-3

  3. Methods and Techniques

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Relaxation Parameters

      1. General Need for Quantitative Methodologies in Tissue Characterization by MRI
        • F. Podo
        Pages 7-13
      2. NMR Parameter Calculations
        • S. J. Riederer
        Pages 14-25
      3. The Application of Surface Coils for Tissue Characterization — Demonstrated by the Determination of T2 Relaxation Times
        • J. Gehrig, R. Bader, H.-J. Zabel, W. J. Lorenz
        Pages 26-30
      4. Determination of T1 by Three-dimensional Measurement with Triangle Excitation
        • U. Klose
        Pages 31-35
      5. Improving the Accuracy of T1 Measurements In Vivo: The Use of the Hyperbolic Secant Pulse in the Saturation Recovery/Inversion Recovery Sequence
        • P. A. Gowland, M. O. Leach, J. C. Sharp
        Pages 36-42
      6. Volume-Selective Tissue Characterization by T1<sub> <i>e</i> </sub> Dispersion Measurements and T1<sub> <i>e</i> </sub> Dispersion Imaging
        • E. Rommel, R. Kimmich
        Pages 43-47
      7. Two New Pulse Sequences for Efficient Determination of Tissue Parameters in MRI
        • S. J. Riederer, F. Farzaneh, H. Z. Wang
        Pages 48-53
      8. Characterization of Brain Tissues by the Field Dependence of Their Longitudinal Relaxation Rates
        • H. W. Fischer, P. A. Rinck, R. N. Muller
        Pages 54-58
      9. A Biochemical Approach to the Interpretation of MRI Images: In Vitro Study on a Craniopharyngioma
        • F. Di Salle, L. Simonetti, F. Caranci, S. Cirillo, R. Elefante, F. Smaltino
        Pages 59-62
      10. Comparison of Algorithms for the Decomposition of Multiexponential Relaxation Processes Using SUNRISE
        • M. Staemmler, P. Barth, R. Brill, H. Wern, K. Gersonde
        Pages 63-68
      11. Preprocessing of Magnetization Decays to Improve Multiexponential T2 Analysis
        • H. Handels, T. Tolxdorff, K. Bohndorf
        Pages 69-74
      12. Advantages of Multiexponential T2 Analysis
        • T. Tolxdorff, H. Handels, K. Bohndorf
        Pages 75-80
      13. MRI Relaxation of Brain Tissue: A Statistical Estimate of Deviations from Ideality
        • J. D. Shoop, R. J. Kurland, T. J. Hyman, G. C. Levy
        Pages 81-87
      14. Lower Error Bounds for the Estimation of Relaxation Parameters
        • A. R. Brenner, E. A. Penner, R. Gebhardt, W. Ameling
        Pages 88-91

    3. Signal Mechanisms and Influences

      1. Multiexponential Relaxation Analysis of Precontrast MRI in Comparison with Gadolinium-DTPA MRI
        • L. R. Schad, G. Brix, I. Zuna, W. Härle, W. Semmler, W. J. Lorenz
        Pages 94-102
      2. A Chemical Shift Imaging Strategy for Paramagnetic Contrast-Enhanced MRI
        • J. Szumowski, J. H. Simon, S. Totterman, A. Chacko
        Pages 103-111
      3. Experimental Approach to Rho-Related Contrast in Clinical MRI
        • E. Stolle, R. Sundermeyer, A. Kühnert
        Pages 112-117
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About this book

H.P. HIGER 1 In the seventeenth century people dreamed about a machine to get rid of evil spirits and obsessions, which were thought to be the main source of mis­ fortune and disease. I am not going to question this approach, because in a way it sounds reasonable. They dreamed of a machine that would display im­ ages from the inner world of men which could be easily identified and named. Somehow these are the roots of MR imaging. Of course, we now view disease from a different point of view but our objectives remain the same, namely to make diseases visible and to try to characterize them in order to cure them. This was the reason for setting up a symposium on tissue characterization. About 300 years later the clinical introduction of MRI has great potential for making this dream come true, and I hope that this symposium has con­ stituted another step toward its realization. When Damadian published his article in 1971 about differences in T1 relaxation times between healthy and pathological tissues, this was a milestone in tissue characterization. His results initiated intensive research in­ to MR imaging and tissue parameters. Actually his encouraging discovery was not only the first but also the last for a long time in the field of MR tissue characterization.

Editors and Affiliations

  • MRI Department, Deutsche Klinik für Diagnostik, Wiesbaden, Germany

    H. Peter Higer, Gernot Bielke

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Tissue Characterization in MR Imaging

  • Book Subtitle: Clinical and Technical Approaches

  • Editors: H. Peter Higer, Gernot Bielke

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74993-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-74995-7Published: 13 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-74993-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 340

  • Topics: Neuroradiology, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Anatomy

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