Applications of Hyperpolarized Agents in Solutions
Mouse (rapid bolus i.v.) Rat (rapid bolus i.v.) Dog (rapid bolus i.v.) Max vol. (mL/kg) Max rate (mL/s) Max vol. (mL/kg) Max rate (mL/s) Max vol. (mL/kg) Max. rate…
Screening of CEST MR Contrast Agents
Fig. 1. Cartoon depicting the mechanism of CEST contrast for lL-arginine dissolved in water. (a) Saturation pulses are placed either on resonance with the exchangeable guanidyl protons or off resonance…
MRI Using Intermolecular Multiple-Quantum Coherences
, that can be tuned by changing the strength GT of the magnetic field gradient pulses used in the iMQC experiments. This distance is usually chosen to be smaller than…
Spinal Cord – MR of Rodent Models
Fig. 1. Schematic representation of the vertebral segments and sagittal, coronal, and axial MR images of the spinal cord at the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar levels. The arrows (sagittal and…
MRI of CEST-Based Reporter Gene
Fig. 1. Flowchart of the CEST imaging protocol for in vivo reporter gene imaging. 2 Materials 2.1 General Requirements 1. A high-field (4.7 T and above), small animal narrow bore…
Manganese-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Transport system References Divalent metal transporter (DMT1, also known as NRAMP-2 or DCT-1) (33, 197–199) Transferrin–transferrin receptor system (21, 28, 80, 200) Voltage-gated calcium channels (44) Store-operated calcium channels (201)…
Scanner Components
Fig. 1. Conceptual setup of a superconducting magnet with a vertical bore. The superconducting coils that cylindrically surround the bore are placed in a chamber filled with liquid helium. To…
High Field Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Small Animals and Excised Tissue
([1]) The mean squared displacement can then be calculated from the second moment of this distribution: ([2]) This is the well-known Einstein equation of diffusion and this model is used…
Target-Specific Paramagnetic and Superparamagnetic Micelles for Molecular MR Imaging
Fig. 1. T 1-weighted MR images and confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) images taken from the carotid artery of mice injected with collagen-targeted paramagnetic micelles. These micelles were equipped with…
Analysis of Freshly Fixed and Museum Invertebrate Specimens Using High-Resolution, High-Throughput MRI
Higher taxon Species References Scanning condition Demospongiae Haplosclerida Lubomirskia baicalensis (5)a Ex vivo Crustacea Decapoda Callinectes sapidus (6)a In vivo Cancer pagurus (7) In vivo Maja squinado (7) In vivo …
