Modeling magnitude and phase neuronal current MRI signal dependence on echo time
- 27 July 2010
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
- Vol. 64 (6), 1832-1837
- https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.22569
Abstract
To enhance sensitivity in measuring neuronal current MRI (ncMRI) signal using T(2)*-weighted sequences, appropriate selection of echo time (TE) is vital for optimizing data acquisition strategy. The purpose of this study is to establish the contrast-to-noise ratio of neuronal current MRI signal dependence on TE and determine the optimum TE (TE(opt)) in achieving its highest detection power. The TE(opt) in human brain and tissue preparation at 1.5, 3, and 7 T are estimated with different voxel sizes. Our results show that TE(opt) values are different between magnitude and phase images, and TE(opt) is larger in magnitude than phase imaging. This suggests that a dual-echo data acquisition strategy would provide the best efficiency in detecting magnitude and phase neuronal current MRI signals simultaneously. Our results also indicated that the detection sensitivity will be stronger at lower magnetic fields for human brain, whereas the sensitivity will be enhanced/reduced as field strength increases for phase/magnitude imaging on tissue preparation.Funding Information
- NIH (RO1 EB004753)
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