Journal article
High-resolution MRS in the presence of field inhomogeneity via intermolecular double-quantum coherences on a 3-T whole-body scanner
Magnetic resonance in medicine, Vol.63(2), pp.303-311
02/2010
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22224
PMID: 20099324
Abstract
Signals from intermolecular double-quantum coherences (iDQCs) have been shown to be insensitive to macroscopic field inhomogeneities and thus enable acquisition of high- resolution MR spectroscopy in the presence of large inhomogeneous fields. In this paper, localized iDQC (1)H spectroscopy on a whole-body 3-T MR scanner is reported. Experiments with a brain metabolite phantom were performed to quantify characteristics of the iDQC signal under different conditions. The feasibility of in vivo iDQC high-resolution MR spectroscopy in the presence of large intrinsic and external field inhomogeneity (in the order of hundreds of hertz) was demonstrated in the whole cerebellum of normal volunteers in a scan time of about 6.5 min. Major metabolite peaks were well resolved in the reconstructed one-dimensional spectra projected from two-dimensional iDQC acquisitions. Investigations on metabolite ratios, signal-to-noise ratio, and line width were performed and compared with results obtained with conventional point-resolved spectroscopy/MR spectroscopy in homogeneous fields. Metabolite ratios from iDQC results showed excellent consistency under different in vitro and in vivo conditions, and they were similar to those from point-resolved spectroscopy with small voxel sizes in homogeneous fields. MR spectroscopy with iDQCs can be applied potentially for quantification of gross metabolite changes due to diseases in large brain volumes with high field inhomogeneity.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- High-resolution MRS in the presence of field inhomogeneity via intermolecular double-quantum coherences on a 3-T whole-body scanner
- Creators
- Yanqin Lin - Department of Imaging Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14642-8648, USATianliang GuZhong ChenScott KennedyMathews JacobJianhui Zhong
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Magnetic resonance in medicine, Vol.63(2), pp.303-311
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1002/mrm.22224
- PMID
- 20099324
- ISSN
- 0740-3194
- eISSN
- 1522-2594
- Grant note
- NS41048 / NINDS NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/2010
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Radiology; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Radiation Oncology
- Record Identifier
- 9984070399202771
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