Vol 4, No 1 (February 25, 2014): Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery (Parallel and sparse MR imaging: methods and instruments——Part 1)

Technical Note

Mitigating transmit B1 inhomogeneity in the liver at 7T using multispoke parallel transmit RF pulse design
Xiaoping Wu, Sebastian Schmitter, Edward J. Auerbach, Kâmil Uğurbil, Pierre-François Van de Moortele

Original Article

Quadrature transmit array design using single-feed circularly polarized patch antenna for parallel transmission in MR imaging
Yong Pang, Baiying Yu, Daniel B. Vigneron, Xiaoliang Zhang
Improving multi-channel compressed sensing MRI with reweighted l1 minimization
Ching-Hua Chang, Jim X. Ji
Kinetic and perfusion modeling of hyperpolarized 13C pyruvate and urea in cancer with arbitrary RF flip angles
Naeim Bahrami, Christine Leon Swisher, Cornelius Von Morze, Daniel B. Vigneron, Peder E. Z. Larson
Parallel imaging performance investigation of an 8-channel common-mode differential-mode (CMDM) planar array for 7T MRI
Xiaoqing Hu, Xiao Chen, Xin Liu, Hairong Zheng, Ye Li, Xiaoliang Zhang
In vivo evaluation of optic nerve aging in adult rhesus monkey by diffusion tensor imaging
Yumei Yan, Longchuan Li, Todd M. Preuss, Xiaoping Hu, James G. Herndon, Xiaodong Zhang
Design and numerical evaluation of a volume coil array for parallel MR imaging at ultrahigh fields
Yong Pang, Ernest W.H. Wong, Baiying Yu, Xiaoliang Zhang
Accelerated MRI with CIRcular Cartesian UnderSampling (CIRCUS): a variable density Cartesian sampling strategy for compressed sensing and parallel imaging
Jing Liu, David Saloner

Disclosure:

This focused issue “Parallel and sparse MR imaging: methods and instruments” was commissioned by the editorial office, Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery without any sponsorship or funding. Xiaoliang Zhang and Jim X. Ji served as the unpaid Guest Editors for the focused issue.