The purpose of this journal club is to get faculty and trainees together regularly to discuss some current literature related to MR Physics (in the broadest sense) that we might not otherwise take the time to appreciate.

Each meeting, two members will briefly present one paper each. The presentations should be informal, about 15 minutes in duration, highlighting the relevant questions being addressed, methods being used, conclusions drawn and observation of any noteworthy strengths or weaknesses. Papers should be chosen from the three most recent issues of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine or Journal of Magnetic Resonance. We encourage presenters to select papers on topics with which they are not already closely familiar.

• Preibisch AC, Deichmann R. Influence of RF spoiling on the stability and accuracy of T1 mapping based on spoiled FLASH with varying flip angles. Magn Reson Med 2008;61:125-135.

• Huang SY, Witzel T, Wald LL. Accelerated radiation damping for increased spin equilibrium (ARISE): a new method for controlling the recovery of longitudinal magnetization. Magn Reson Med. 2008 Nov;60(5):1112-21.

• Roth BJ, Basser PJ. Mechanical model of neural tissue displacement during Lorentz effect imaging. Magn Reson Med. 2009 Jan;61(1):59-64.

• Park JY, Garwood M. Spin-echo MRI using pi/2 and pi hyperbolic secant pulses. Magn Reson Med 2009;61:175-87.

• Tyszka JM, Frank LR. High-field diffusion MR histology: Image-based correction of eddy-current ghosts in diffusion-weighted rapid acquisition with relaxation enhancement (DW-RARE). Magn Reson Med 2009;61:728-33.

• Uh J, Lewis-Amezcua K, Varghese R, Lu H. On the measurement of absolute cerebral blood volume (CBV) using vascular-space-occupancy (VASO) MRI. Magn Reson Med 2008;61:659-67.

• Pickup S, Lee SC, Mancuso A, Glickson JD. Lactate imaging with Hadamard-encoded slice-selective multiple quantum coherence chemical-shift imaging. Magn Reson Med 2008 Aug;60(2):299-305.

• Cukur T, Nishimura DG. Fat-water separation with alternating repetition time balanced SSFP. Magn Reson Med 2008 Aug;60(2):479-84.

• McMahon MT, Gilad AA, DeLiso MA, Berman SM, Bulte JW, van Zijl PC. New "multicolor" polypeptide diamagnetic chemical exchange saturation transfer (DIACEST) contrast agents for MRI. Magn Reson Med 2008 Oct;60(4):803-12.

• Robson PM, Grant AK, Madhuranthakam AJ, Lattanzi R, Sodickson DK, McKenzie CA. Comprehensive quantification of signal-to-noise ratio and g-factor for image-based and k-space-based parallel imaging reconstructions. Magn Reson Med 2008 Oct;60(4):895-907.

• Morrell GR. A phase-sensitive method of flip angle mapping. Magn Reson Med 2008;60(4):889-94.

• Chow LS, Dagens A, Fu Y, Cook GG, Paley MN. Comparison of BOLD and direct-MR neuronal detection (DND) in the human visual cortex at 3T. Magn Reson Med 2008;60(5):1147-1154.

• Deistung A, Rauscher A, Sedlacik J, Stadler J, Witoszynskyj S, Reichenbach JR. Susceptibility weighted imaging at ultra high magnetic field strengths: theoretical considerations and experimental results. Magn Reson Med 2008;60:1155-68.

• Jayachandra MR, Rehbein N, Herweh C, Heiland S. Fiber tracking of human brain using fourth-order tensor and high angular resolution diffusion imaging. Magn Reson Med 2008 Nov;60(5):1207-17.

• Preibisch C, Volz S, Anti S, Deichmann R. Exponential excitation pulses for improved water content mapping in the presence of background gradients. Magn Reson Med 2008 Oct;60(4):908-16.