Vol 9, No 10 (October 29, 2019): Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery (Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer Imaging Special Issue)

Original Article

Preliminary evaluation of dynamic glucose enhanced MRI of the human placenta during glucose tolerance test
Jie Luo, Esra Abaci Turk, Borjan Gagoski, Natalie Copeland, Iris Y. Zhou, Vanessa Young, Carolina Bibbo, Julian N. Robinson, Chloe Zera, William H. Barth Jr, Drucilla J. Roberts, Phillip Zhe Sun, P. Ellen Grant
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2019;
9
(10)
:1619-1627
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Challenges in glucoCEST MR body imaging at 3 Tesla
Mina Kim, Francisco Torrealdea, Sola Adeleke, Marilena Rega, Vincent Evans, Teresita Beeston, Katerina Soteriou, Stefanie Thust, Aaron Kujawa, Sachi Okuchi, Elizabeth Isaac, Wivijin Piga, Jonathan R. Lambert, Asim Afaq, Eleni Demetriou, Pratik Choudhary, King Kenneth Cheung, Sarita Naik, David Atkinson, Shonit Punwani, Xavier Golay
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2019;
9
(10)
:1628-1640
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Amide proton transfer-weighted MRI for predicting histological grade of hepatocellular carcinoma: comparison with diffusion-weighted imaging
Yue Lin, Xiaojie Luo, Lu Yu, Yi Zhang, Jinyuan Zhou, Yuwei Jiang, Chen Zhang, Jintao Zhang, Chunmei Li, Min Chen
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2019;
9
(10)
:1641-1651
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Imaging of glutamate in acute traumatic brain injury using chemical exchange saturation transfer
Yifei Mao, Zerui Zhuang, Yanzi Chen, Xiaolei Zhang, Yuanyu Shen, Guisen Lin, Renhua Wu
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2019;
9
(10)
:1652-1663
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In vivo assessment of extracellular pH of joint tissues using acidoCEST-UTE MRI
Rachel A. High, Yang Ji, Ya-Jun Ma, Qingbo Tang, Mark E. Murphy, Jiang Du, Eric Y. Chang
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2019;
9
(10)
:1664-1673
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Repeatability and reproducibility of prospective motion- and shim corrected 2D glycoCEST MRI
Gizeaddis Lamesgin Simegn, Ali Alhamud, Andre J. W. van der Kouwe, Ernesta Meintjes, Frances Robertson
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2019;
9
(10)
:1674-1685
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In vivo quantification of proton exchange rate in healthy human brains with omega plot
Mehran Shaghaghi, Weiwei Chen, Alessandro Scotti, Haiqi Ye, Yan Zhang, Wenzhen Zhu, Kejia Cai
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2019;
9
(10)
:1686-1696
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Motion correction of chemical exchange saturation transfer MRI series using robust principal component analysis (RPCA) and PCA
Chongxue Bie, Yuhua Liang, Lihong Zhang, Yingcheng Zhao, Yanrong Chen, Xueru Zhang, Xiaowei He, Xiaolei Song
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2019;
9
(10)
:1697-1713
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Voxel-wise Optimization of Pseudo Voigt Profile (VOPVP) for Z-spectra fitting in chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) MRI
Lihong Zhang, Yingcheng Zhao, Yanrong Chen, Chongxue Bie, Yuhua Liang, Xiaowei He, Xiaolei Song
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2019;
9
(10)
:1714-1730
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Review Article

Molecular imaging of tumors by chemical exchange saturation transfer MRI of glucose analogs
Michal Rivlin, Gil Navon
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2019;
9
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:1731-1746
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Chemical exchange saturation transfer magnetic resonance imaging and its main and potential applications in pre-clinical and clinical studies
Weiqiang Dou, Chien-Yuan Eddy Lin, Hongyuan Ding, Yong Shen, Carol Dou, Long Qian, Baohong Wen, Bing Wu
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2019;
9
(10)
:1747-1766
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Disclosure:

This focused issue “Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer Imaging” was commissioned by the editorial office, Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery without any sponsorship or funding. Jinyuan Zhou and Guanshu Liu served as the unpaid Guest Editors for the focused issue.