Publications by authors named "Michael A Ohilger"
Purpose: To ameliorate tradeoffs between a fixed spatial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for hyperpolarized C MRI.
Methods: In MRI, SNR is proportional to voxel volume but retrospective downsampling or voxel averaging only improves SNR by the square root of voxel size. This can be exploited with a metabolite-selective imaging approach that independently encodes each compound, yielding high-resolution images for the injected substrate and coarser resolution images for downstream metabolites, while maintaining adequate SNR for each.