[HTML][HTML] Recent technical developments and clinical research applications of sodium (23Na) MRI

LV Gast, T Platt, AM Nagel, T Gerhalter - Progress in Nuclear Magnetic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sodium is an essential ion that plays a central role in many physiological processes
including the transmembrane electrochemical gradient and the maintenance of the body's …

Compositional and functional MRI of skeletal muscle: A review

MT Hooijmans, L Schlaffke, B Bolsterlee… - Journal of magnetic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Due to its exceptional sensitivity to soft tissues, MRI has been extensively utilized to assess
anatomical muscle parameters such as muscle volume and cross‐sectional area …

[HTML][HTML] MRI of potassium and sodium enables comprehensive analysis of ion perturbations in skeletal muscle tissue after eccentric exercise

LV Gast, LM Baier, CR Meixner, O Chaudry… - Investigative …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Objectives The aims were to investigate if potassium (39 K) magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) can be used to analyze changes in the apparent tissue potassium concentration …

Repeatability assessment of sodium (23Na) MRI at 7.0 T in healthy human calf muscle and preliminary results on tissue sodium concentrations in subjects with …

O Zaric, H Beiglböck, V Janacova… - BMC Musculoskeletal …, 2022 - Springer
Objectives To determine the relaxation times of the sodium nucleus, and to investigate the
repeatability of quantitative, in viv o TSC measurements using sodium magnetic resonance …

[HTML][HTML] Sodium in the dermis colocates to glycosaminoglycan scaffold, with diminishment in type 2 diabetes mellitus

P Hanson, CJ Philp, HS Randeva, S James… - JCI insight, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND. Dietary sodium intake mismatches urinary sodium excretion over
prolonged periods. Our aims were to localize and quantify electrostatically bound sodium …

Primary hyperaldosteronism induces congruent alterations of sodium homeostasis in different skeletal muscles: a 23Na-MRI study

M Christa, S Hahner, H Köstler… - European Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Sodium homeostasis is disrupted in many cardiovascular diseases, which
makes non-invasive sodium storage assessment desirable. In this regard, sodium MRI has …

265th ENMC international workshop: Muscle imaging in Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD): Relevance for clinical trials. 22–24 April 2022, Hoofddorp …

M Monforte, S Attarian, J Vissing, J Diaz-Manera… - Neuromuscular …, 2023 - Elsevier
On 22–24 April 2022 the 265th ENMC International Workshop on “Muscle Imaging in
Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD): relevance for clinical trials” took place as …

Sodium quantification in skeletal muscle: comparison between Cartesian gradient-echo and radial ultra-short echo time 23Na MRI techniques

T Gerhalter, F Schilling, N Zeitouni, P Linz… - European radiology …, 2024 - Springer
Background Clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies often use Cartesian
gradient-echo (GRE) sequences with~ 2-ms echo times (TEs) to monitor apparent total …

Parameter optimization for proton density fat fraction quantification in skeletal muscle tissue at 7 T

K Tkotz, P Zeiger, J Hanspach, CS Mathy… - … Resonance Materials in …, 2024 - Springer
Objective To establish an image acquisition and post-processing workflow for the
determination of the proton density fat fraction (PDFF) in calf muscle tissue at 7 T. Materials …

Upper-body free-breathing Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting applied to the quantification of water T1 and fat fraction

C Slioussarenko, PY Baudin, M Lapert… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Over the past decade, Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) has emerged as an
efficient paradigm for the rapid and simultaneous quantification of multiple MRI parameters …