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Practical real-time MEG-based neural interfacing with optically pumped magnetometers (2021)
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Wittevrongel, B., Holmes, N., Boto, E., Hill, R., Rea, M., Libert, A., Khachatryan, E., Van Hulle, M. M., Bowtell, R., & Brookes, M. J. (2021). Practical real-time MEG-based neural interfacing with optically pumped magnetometers. BMC Biology, 19(1), Article 158. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01073-6

Background: Brain-computer interfaces decode intentions directly from the human brain with the aim to restore lost functionality, control external devices or augment daily experiences. To combine optimal performance with wide applicability, high-qual... Read More about Practical real-time MEG-based neural interfacing with optically pumped magnetometers.

Psyllium reduces insulin-induced colonic gas production in irritable bowel syndrome: MRI and in vitro fermentation studies (2021)
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Gunn, D., Abbas, Z., Harris, H., Major, G., Hoad, C., Gowland, P., Marciani, L., Gill, S., Warren, F., Rossi, M., Remes-Troche, J., Whelan, K., & Spiller, R. (2022). Psyllium reduces insulin-induced colonic gas production in irritable bowel syndrome: MRI and in vitro fermentation studies. Gut, 71(5), 919-927. https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2021-324784

Objective: Health promoting dietary fibre including inulin often triggers gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), limiting their intake. Our aim was to test if co-administering psyllium with inulin would reduce gas... Read More about Psyllium reduces insulin-induced colonic gas production in irritable bowel syndrome: MRI and in vitro fermentation studies.

Matrix-Bound Growth Factors are Released upon Cartilage Compression by an Aggrecan-Dependent Sodium Flux that is Lost in Osteoarthritis (2021)
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Keppie, S. J., Mansfield, J. C., Tang, X., Philp, C. J., Graham, H. K., Önnerfjord, P., Wall, A., McLean, C., Winlove, C. P., Sherratt, M. J., Pavlovskaya, G. E., & Vincent, T. L. (2021). Matrix-Bound Growth Factors are Released upon Cartilage Compression by an Aggrecan-Dependent Sodium Flux that is Lost in Osteoarthritis. Function, 2(5), Article zqab037. https://doi.org/10.1093/function/zqab037

Articular cartilage is a dense extracellular matrix-rich tissue that degrades following chronic mechanical stress, resulting in osteoarthritis (OA). The tissue has low intrinsic repair especially in aged and osteoarthritic joints. Here, we describe t... Read More about Matrix-Bound Growth Factors are Released upon Cartilage Compression by an Aggrecan-Dependent Sodium Flux that is Lost in Osteoarthritis.

Magnetic Field Mapping and Correction for Moving OP-MEG (2021)
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Mellor, S., Tierney, T. M., O'Neill, G. C., Alexander, N., Seymour, R. A., Holmes, N., Lopez, J. D., Hill, R. M., Boto, E., Rea, M., Roberts, G., Leggett, J., Bowtell, R., Brookes, M. J., Maguire, E. A., Walker, M. C., & Barnes, G. R. (2022). Magnetic Field Mapping and Correction for Moving OP-MEG. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 69(2), 528-536. https://doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2021.3100770

Background: Optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) have made moving, wearable magnetoencephalography (MEG) possible. The OPMs typically used for MEG require a low background magnetic field to operate, which is achieved using both passive and active ma... Read More about Magnetic Field Mapping and Correction for Moving OP-MEG.

Cochlear implant user perceptions of magnetic resonance imaging (2021)
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Dewey, R. S., & Kitterick, P. T. (2022). Cochlear implant user perceptions of magnetic resonance imaging. Cochlear Implants International, 23(1), 11-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14670100.2021.1954748

Objectives

To characterise opinions about needing to undergo MRI within the population of current cochlear implant (CI) users.

Background

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of CI users is often associated with severe discomfort and magnet disp... Read More about Cochlear implant user perceptions of magnetic resonance imaging.

Precision magnetic field modelling and control for wearable magnetoencephalography (2021)
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Rea, M., Holmes, N., Hill, R. M., Boto, E., Leggett, J., Edwards, L. J., David 4 Woolger, Dawson, E., Shah, V., Osborne, J., Bowtell, R., & Brookes, M. J. (2021). Precision magnetic field modelling and control for wearable magnetoencephalography. NeuroImage, 241, Article 118401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118401

Optically-pumped magnetometers (OPMs) are highly sensitive, compact magnetic field sensors, which offer a viable alternative to cryogenic sensors (superconducting quantum interference devices – SQUIDs) for magnetoencephalography (MEG). With the promi... Read More about Precision magnetic field modelling and control for wearable magnetoencephalography.

Parametric Assessment of the Effect of Cochlear Implant Positioning on Brain MRI Artefacts at 3 T (2021)
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Dewey, R. S., Dineen, R. A., Clemence, M., Dick, O., Bowtell, R., & Kitterick, P. T. (2021). Parametric Assessment of the Effect of Cochlear Implant Positioning on Brain MRI Artefacts at 3 T. Otology and Neurotology, 42(10), e1449-e1456. https://doi.org/10.1097/MAO.0000000000003281

Background:Brain magnetic resonance imaging in patients with cochlear implants (CIs) is impacted by image artefacts.Hypothesis:The optimal positioning of the CI to minimize artefacts is unknown. This study aimed to characterize the dependence of the... Read More about Parametric Assessment of the Effect of Cochlear Implant Positioning on Brain MRI Artefacts at 3 T.

Feasibility and Biological Activity of a Ketogenic/Intermittent-Fasting Diet in Patients With Glioma (2021)
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Schreck, K. C., Hsu, F.-C., Berrington, A., Henry-Barron, B., Vizthum, D., Blair, L., Kossoff, E. H., Easter, L., Whitlow, C. T., Barker, P. B., Cervenka, M. C., Blakeley, J. O., & Strowd, R. E. (2021). Feasibility and Biological Activity of a Ketogenic/Intermittent-Fasting Diet in Patients With Glioma. Neurology, 97(9), e953-e963. https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.0000000000012386

OBJECTIVE: To examine the feasibility, safety, systemic biological activity, and cerebral activity of a ketogenic dietary intervention in patients with glioma.

METHODS: 25 patients with biopsy-confirmed WHO Grade 2-4 astrocytoma with stable diseas... Read More about Feasibility and Biological Activity of a Ketogenic/Intermittent-Fasting Diet in Patients With Glioma.

Review article: The aetiology of fatigue in inflammatory bowel disease and potential therapeutic management strategies (2021)
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McGing, J. J., Radford, S. J., Francis, S. T., Serres, S., Greenhaff, P. L., & Moran, G. W. (2021). Review article: The aetiology of fatigue in inflammatory bowel disease and potential therapeutic management strategies. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 54(4), 368-387. https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.16465

Background: Fatigue is the inability to achieve or maintain an expected work output resulting from central or peripheral mechanisms. The prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) fatigue can reach 86% in active disease, persisting in 50%-52% of... Read More about Review article: The aetiology of fatigue in inflammatory bowel disease and potential therapeutic management strategies.

Muscle and tendon adaptations to moderate load eccentric vs. concentric resistance exercise in young and older males (2021)
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Quinlan, J. I., Franchi, M. V., Gharahdaghi, N., Badiali, F., Francis, S., Hale, A., Phillips, B. E., Szewczyk, N., Greenhaff, P. L., Smith, K., Maganaris, C., Atherton, P. J., & Narici, M. V. (2021). Muscle and tendon adaptations to moderate load eccentric vs. concentric resistance exercise in young and older males. GeroScience, 43(4), 1567-1584. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-021-00396-0

Resistance exercise training (RET) is well-known to counteract negative age-related changes in both muscle and tendon tissue. Traditional RET consists of both concentric (CON) and eccentric (ECC) contractions; nevertheless, isolated ECC contractions... Read More about Muscle and tendon adaptations to moderate load eccentric vs. concentric resistance exercise in young and older males.

Comparison of continuous sampling with active noise cancelation and sparse sampling for cortical and subcortical auditory functional MRI (2021)
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Dewey, R. S., Hall, D. A., Plack, C. J., & Francis, S. T. (2021). Comparison of continuous sampling with active noise cancelation and sparse sampling for cortical and subcortical auditory functional MRI. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 86(5), 2577-2588. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28902

Purpose
Detecting sound-related activity using functional MRI requires the auditory stimulus to be more salient than the intense background scanner acoustic noise. Various strategies can reduce the impact of scanner acoustic noise, including “sparse... Read More about Comparison of continuous sampling with active noise cancelation and sparse sampling for cortical and subcortical auditory functional MRI.

Comparison of continuous sampling with active noise cancellation and sparse sampling for cortical and subcortical auditory fMRI (2021)
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Dewey, R. S., Hall, D. A., Plack, C. J., & Francis, S. T. (2021). Comparison of continuous sampling with active noise cancellation and sparse sampling for cortical and subcortical auditory fMRI. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 86(5), 2577-2588. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28902

Purpose
Detecting sound-related activity using functional MRI requires the auditory stimulus to be more salient than the intense background scanner acoustic noise. Various strategies can reduce the impact of scanner acoustic noise, including “sparse... Read More about Comparison of continuous sampling with active noise cancellation and sparse sampling for cortical and subcortical auditory fMRI.

Estimation and removal of spurious echo artifacts in single‐voxel MRS using sensitivity encoding (2021)
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Berrington, A., Považan, M., & Barker, P. B. (2021). Estimation and removal of spurious echo artifacts in single‐voxel MRS using sensitivity encoding. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 86(5), 2339-2352. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28848

Purpose

In localized MRS, spurious echo artifacts commonly occur when unsuppressed signal outside the volume of interest is excited and refocused. In the spectral domain, these signals often overlap with metabolite resonances and hinder accurate q... Read More about Estimation and removal of spurious echo artifacts in single‐voxel MRS using sensitivity encoding.

Sodium in the dermis colocates to glycosaminoglycan scaffold, with diminishment in type 2 diabetes mellitus (2021)
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Hanson, P., Philp, C. J., Randeva, H. S., James, S., O’Hare, J. P., Meersmann, T., Pavlovskaya, G. E., & Barber, T. M. (2021). Sodium in the dermis colocates to glycosaminoglycan scaffold, with diminishment in type 2 diabetes mellitus. JCI insight, 6(12), Article e145470. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.145470

BACKGROUND. Dietary sodium intake mismatches urinary sodium excretion over prolonged periods. Our aims were to localize and quantify electrostatically bound sodium within human skin using triple-quantum-filtered (TQF) protocols for MRI and magnetic r... Read More about Sodium in the dermis colocates to glycosaminoglycan scaffold, with diminishment in type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Postprandial changes in gastrointestinal function and transit in cystic fibrosis assessed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (2021)
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Ng, C., Dellschaft, N. S., Hoad, C. L., Marciani, L., Ban, L., Prayle, A. P., Barr, H. L., Jaudszus, A., Mainz, J. G., Spiller, R., Gowland, P., Major, G., & Smyth, A. R. (2021). Postprandial changes in gastrointestinal function and transit in cystic fibrosis assessed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, 20(4), 591-597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcf.2020.06.004

Background: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a multi-system genetic disorder affecting >72,000 people worldwide. Most CF patients experience gastrointestinal symptoms and can develop complications. However, the mechanisms of CF gut disease are not well unders... Read More about Postprandial changes in gastrointestinal function and transit in cystic fibrosis assessed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Association of Cannabis Use During Adolescence With Neurodevelopment (2021)
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Albaugh, M. D., Ottino-Gonzalez, J., Sidwell, A., Lepage, C., Juliano, A., Owens, M. M., Chaarani, B., Spechler, P., Fontaine, N., Rioux, P., Lewis, L., Jeon, S., Evans, A., D’Souza, D., Radhakrishnan, R., Banaschewski, T., Bokde, A. L. W., Quinlan, E. B., Conrod, P., Desrivières, S., …Garavan, H. (2021). Association of Cannabis Use During Adolescence With Neurodevelopment. JAMA Psychiatry, 78(9), 1031-1040. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2021.1258

IMPORTANCE Animal studies have shown that the adolescent brain is sensitive to disruptions in endocannabinoid signaling, resulting in altered neurodevelopment and lasting behavioral effects. However, few studies have investigated ties between cannabi... Read More about Association of Cannabis Use During Adolescence With Neurodevelopment.

Residual effects of cannabis-use on neuropsychological functioning (2021)
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Wendel, L. K., Daedelow, L., Kaminski, J., Banaschewski, T., Millenet, S., Bokde, A. L., Quinlan, E. B., Desrivières, S., Flor, H., Grigis, A., Garavan, H., Gowland, P., Heinz, A., Brühl, R., Martinot, J.-L., Artiges, E., Nees, F., Papadopoulos Orfanos, D., Paus, T., Poustka, L., …Walter, H. (2021). Residual effects of cannabis-use on neuropsychological functioning. Cognitive Development, 59, Article 101072. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101072

Non-acute effects of cannabis on neurocognition in adolescents remain unclear with most studies being cross-sectional. Therefore, the aim of this longitudinal, multi-center study was to examine the effects of cannabis use on cognitive abilities in pa... Read More about Residual effects of cannabis-use on neuropsychological functioning.

Test–retest assessment of non-contrast MRI sequences to characterise and quantify the small bowel wall in healthy participants (2021)
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Alyami, A. S., Williams, H. G., Argyriou, K., Gunn, D., Wilkinson-Smith, V., White, J. R., Alyami, J., Gowland, P. A., Moran, G. W., & Hoad, C. L. (2021). Test–retest assessment of non-contrast MRI sequences to characterise and quantify the small bowel wall in healthy participants. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, 34, 791-804. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10334-021-00931-2

Objective: Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging sequences have been investigated as objective imaging biomarkers of fibrosis and inflammation in Crohn’s disease. Aim: To determine the repeatability and inter- and intra-observer agreement of these... Read More about Test–retest assessment of non-contrast MRI sequences to characterise and quantify the small bowel wall in healthy participants.

Partial volume correction in arterial spin labeling perfusion MRI: A method to disentangle anatomy from physiology or an analysis step too far? (2021)
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Chappell, M. A., McConnell, F. A. K., Golay, X., Günther, M., Hernandez-Tamames, J. A., van Osch, M. J., & Asllani, I. (2021). Partial volume correction in arterial spin labeling perfusion MRI: A method to disentangle anatomy from physiology or an analysis step too far?. NeuroImage, 238, Article 118236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118236

The mismatch in the spatial resolution of Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL) MRI perfusion images and the anatomy of functionally distinct tissues in the brain leads to a partial volume effect (PVE), which in turn confounds the estimation of perfusion into... Read More about Partial volume correction in arterial spin labeling perfusion MRI: A method to disentangle anatomy from physiology or an analysis step too far?.