Browsing by Subject "CEST"
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(2020-11-16)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe spinal cord is a narrow, cylindrical structure responsible for rapidly transmitting electrical signals throughout the nervous system and is the primary sensorimotor pathway for the human body. Therefore, damage to the ...
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(Maganetic Resonance in Medicine, 2020-09)Purpose Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) is an MRI technique sensitive to the presence of low-concentration solute protons exchanging with water. However, magnetization transfer (MT) effects also arise when ...
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(2016-09-22)Department: Biomedical EngineeringMagnetization transfer (MT) imaging has emerged as a viable alternative to conventional structural MRI indices. It has been shown to be remarkably sensitive to changes in myelin associated with pathologies such as multiple ...
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(2015-07-17)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopic MethodologyGlycogen is the primary tissue storage form of carbohydrates and plays in integral role in whole body glucose homeostasis, yet remains difficult to measure without invasive biopsies. A novel non-invasive approach to measure ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Deptartment of Physics and Astronomy, 2013-04-22)Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) is often overlooked as a method for the investigation of metabolites in vivo due to the time required to obtain a full spectrum. We investigated the feasibility and optimization ...