Journal
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE
Volume 59, Issue 5, Pages 980-988Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21537
Keywords
MRSI; adiabatic; inversion recovery; fat suppression; 7T; spatial-spectral
Funding
- NCRR NIH HHS [P41 RR009784-14, P41 RR009784, RR 09784] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH080913-01A1, R01 MH080913] Funding Source: Medline
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Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (H-1 MRSI) at 7T offers many advantages, including increased SNR and spectral resolution. However, technical difficulties associated with operating at high fields, such as increased B-1 and B-0 inhomogenelty, severe chemical shift localization error, and converging T, values, make the suppression of the broad lipid peaks which can obscure targeted metabolite signals, particularly challenging. Conventional short tau inversion recovery can successfully suppress fat without restricting the selected volume, but only with significant metabolite signal loss. In this work, we have designed two new pulses for frequency-selective inversion recovery that achieve B-1 -insensitive fat suppression without degrading the signal from the major metabolites of interest. The first is a spectrally selective adiabatic pulse to be used in a volumetric H-1 MRSI sequence and the second is a spatial-spectral adiabatic pulse geared toward multi-slice H-1 MRSI. Partial interior volume selection may be used in addition to the pulses, to exclude areas with severe B-0 inhomogeneity. Some differences in the spectral profile as well as degree of suppression make each pulse valuable for different applications. 7T phantom and in vivo data show that both pulses significantly suppress fat, while leaving most of the metabolite signal intact.
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