Magnetic resonance in medical sciences : MRMS : an official journal of Japan Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
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To introduce, optimize, and assess the feasibility of a new scheme to rapidly acquire high-resolution volumetric neurographic images using a three-dimensional turbo spin-echo sequence combined with a diffusion-weighted pre-pulse called improved motion-sensitized driven equilibrium (iMSDE): Diffusion-prepared MR Neurography (D-prep MRN). ⋯ D-prep MRN was introduced and optimized, and clearly showed detailed anatomy of the brachial plexus, lumbosacral plexus, and cranial nerves. These results suggest that the D-prep MRN can be used for fast, high-resolution, volumetric imaging of the peripheral nervous system.
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We propose a post-processing framework for localized two-dimensional (2D) magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) in vivo. ⋯ Our proposed post-processing framework for localized 2D MRS can improve the quality of in vivo 2D spectra and may allow improved quantitation and robustness of in vivo 2D spectroscopy.