Towards 1H-MRSI of the human brain at 7T with slice-selective adiabatic refocusing pulses

Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 95-101

  Scheenen, Tom W J ^a   Heerschap, Arend ^a   Klomp, Dennis W J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adiabatic pulses; Chemical shift displacement error; Spectroscopic imaging

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; INOSITOL; OIL;

ADIABATICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIOFREQUENCY; ALGORITHM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OILS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 41849102763     PISSN: 09685243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10334-007-0094-y     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Brown TR, Kincaid BM, Ugurbil K (1982) NMR chemical shift imaging in three dimensions. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 79(11): 3523-3526
2. Mao J, Mareci TH, Andrew ER (1988) Experimental study of optimal selective 180 radiofrequency pulses. J Magn Reson 79: 1-10
3. Shinnar M, Leigh JS (1993) Inversion of the Bloch Equation. J Chem Phys 98(8): 6121-6128
4. Pauly J, Nishimura D, Macovski A (1989) A K-space analysis of small-tip-angle excitation. J Magn Reson 81(1): 43-56
5. Pauly J, Nishimura D, Macovski A (1989) A linear class of large-tip-angle selective excitation pulses. J Magn Reson 82(3): 571-587
6. Mulkern RV, Bowers JL (1994) Density matrix calculations of AB spectra from multipulse sequences: quantum mechanics meets in vivo spectroscopy. Concepts Magn Reson 6: 1-23
7. Scheenen TW, Klomp DW, Wijnen JA, Heerschap A (2007) Short Echo Time 1H-MRSI of the Human Brain at 3T with minimal chemical shift displacement errors using adiabatic refocusing pulses. Magn Reson Med (in press)
8. Garwood M, DelaBarre L (2001) The return of the frequency sweep: designing adiabatic pulses for contemporary NMR. J Magn Reson 153(2): 155-177
9. Maudsley AA, Matson GB, Hugg JW, Weiner MW (1994) Reduced phase encoding in spectroscopic imaging. Magn Reson Med 31(6): 645-651
10. Hwang TL, van Zijl PCM, Garwood M (1998) Fast broadband inversion by adiabatic pulses. J Magn Reson 133(1): 200-203
11. Ogg RJ, Kingsley PB, Taylor JS (1994) WET, a T1- and B1-insensitive water-suppression method for in vivo localized 1H NMR spectroscopy. J Magn Reson B 104(1): 1-10
12. Hennig J, Scheffler K (2001) Hyperechoes. Magn Reson Med 46(1): 6-12
13. Wijnen JP, Klomp DW, Scheenen TW, Heerschap A (2007) Reproducibility of short echo time MRSI of the human brain at 3T using a semi-LASER approach. In: Proceedings of the 15th meeting of the ISMRM, Berlin, 2923
14. van Asten JJ, Wijnen JP, Klomp DW, Scheenen TW, Heerschap A (2007) Quantitative assessment of sensitivity enhancement in short echo time 1H MRSI of the Human Brain at 3T using a spin locking pulse sequence. In: Proceedings of the 15th meeting of the ISMRM, Berlin, 3163
15. Gonen O, Gruber S, Li BS, Mlynarik V, Moser E (2001) Multivoxel 3D proton spectroscopy in the brain at 1.5 versus 3.0 T: signal-to-noise ratio and resolution comparison. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 22(9): 1727-1731
16. Barker PB, Hearshen DO, Boska MD (2001) Single-voxel proton MRS of the human brain at 1.5T and 3.0T. Magn Reson Med 45(5): 765-769