Periventricular [(11)C]flumazenil binding for predicting postoperative outcome in individual patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and hippocampal sclerosis.

A third of patients with intractable temporal lobe epilepsy and hippocampal sclerosis (HS) are not seizure free (NSF) after surgery. Increased periventricular [(11)C]flumazenil (FMZ) binding, reflecting heterotopic neuron concentration, has been described as one predictor of NSF outcome at the group level. We aimed to replicate this finding in an independent larger cohort and investigated whether NSF outcome can be predicted in individuals.

Analytic image concept combined to SENSE reconstruction.

Object: Two approaches of reconstructing undersampled partial k-space data, acquired with multiple coils are compared: homodyne detection combined with SENSE (HM_SENSE) and analytic image reconstruction combined with SENSE (AI_SENSE). The latter overcomes limitations of HM_ SENSE by considering aliased images as analytic thus avoiding the need for phase correction required for HM_SENSE.

Materials And Methods: In vivo imaging experiments were carried out in male Lewis rats using both gradient echo and spin echo sequences.

Increasing temporal resolution of DSC perfusion MRI using the analytic image concept.

Object: Dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI (DSC-MRI) is increasingly being used to evaluate cerebral microcirculation. In this study, the use of the analytic image reconstruction (AIR), with the aim to increase the temporal resolution, is evaluated for DSC-MRI in small animals.

Materials And Methods: Imaging was performed using a T (2)*- weighted sequence to acquire male Lewis rats raw data.

Cardiac cine MR reconstruction from partial k-space using the notion of analytic image.

In the concern of speeding the acquisition time and to increase the spatial resolution of magnetic resonance (MR) images, several methods have already been proposed that acquire partial k-space data and use this known information about the imaged object to deal the problem. This work presents a new approach of reconstructing cardiac cine images by using k-space redundancies. The proposed method is based on the use of the analytic image concept.