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Die Arbeit befaßt sich mit Methoden der 23Na-NMR-Bildgebung zur Diagnose am ischämischen und infarzierten Herzmuskel. Der erste Teil beschreibt eine Methode zur lokalisierten Messung des intra- und extrazellulären Natriumgehaltes und T1. Die Methode kam in einer Studie zum Einsatz, in der intra- und extrazellulärer Natriumgehalt sowie die T1-Werte an den Tagen 1, 3 und 21 nach Infarkt gemessen wurden.Im zweiten Teil der Arbeit wird die Dynamik des 23Na bei freier Präzession im stationären Zustand (SSFP) sowohl in numerischen Simulationen als auch experimentell untersucht.
Virtually all existing MRI applications require both a high spatial and high temporal resolution for optimum detection and classification of the state of disease. The main strategy to meet the increasing demands of advanced diagnostic imaging applications has been the steady improvement of gradient systems, which provide increased gradient strengths and faster switching times. Rapid imaging techniques and the advances in gradient performance have significantly reduced acquisition times from about an hour to several minutes or seconds. In order to further increase imaging speed, much higher gradient strengths and much faster switching times are required which are technically challenging to provide. In addition to significant hardware costs, peripheral neuro-stimulations and the surpassing of admissable acoustic noise levels may occur. Today’s whole body gradient systems already operate just below the allowed safety levels. For these reasons, alternative strategies are needed to bypass these limitations. The greatest progress in further increasing imaging speed has been the development of multi-coil arrays and the advent of partially parallel acquisition (PPA) techniques in the late 1990’s. Within the last years, parallel imaging methods have become commercially available,and are therefore ready for broad clinical use. The basic feature of parallel imaging is a scan time reduction, applicable to nearly any available MRI method, while maintaining the contrast behavior without requiring higher gradient system performance. PPA operates by allowing an array of receiver surface coils, positioned around the object under investigation, to partially replace time-consuming spatial encoding which normally is performed by switching magnetic field gradients. Using this strategy, spatial resolution can be improved given a specific imaging time, or scan times can be reduced at a given spatial resolution. Furthermore, in some cases, PPA can even be used to reduce image artifacts. Unfortunately, parallel imaging is associated with a loss in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and therefore is limited to applications which do not already operate at the SNR limit. An additional limitation is the fact that the coil array must provide sufficient sensitivity variations throughout the object under investigation in order to offer enough spatial encoding capacity. This doctoral thesis exhibits an overview of my research on the topic of efficient parallel imaging strategies. Based on existing parallel acquisition and reconstruction strategies, such as SENSE and GRAPPA, new concepts have been developed and transferred to potential clinical applications.
Diese Dissertation beschreibt den Einfluss von HGF auf das ventrikuläre Remodeling des Rattenherzens in der 1. und 16. Woche nach Ischämie und Reperfusion. Die funktionalen Parameter wurden mit Hilfe des NMR gemessen. In der 16. Woche nach Ischämie und Reperfusion wurde die histologisch ermittelte Narbengröße mit dem Wert, der mittels NMR ermittelt wurde, verglichen.