期刊
JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE
卷 202, 期 2, 页码 259-266出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2009.11.013
关键词
Brain; Spectral editing; MEGA-PRESS; PRESS+4
资金
- NCRR NIH HHS [P41 RR008079] Funding Source: Medline
- NIBIB NIH HHS [R01 EB000766-05] Funding Source: Medline
Glutathione (GSH) is a powerful antioxidant found inside different kinds of cells, including those of the central nervous system. Detection of GSH in the human brain using H-1 MR spectroscopy is hindered by low concentration and spectral overlap with other metabolites. Previous MRS methods focused mainly on the detection of the cysteine residue (GSH-Cys) via editing schemes. This Study focuses on the detection of the glycine residue (GSH-Gly), which is overlapped by glutamate and glutamine (Glx) under physiological pH and temperature. The first goal of the study was to obtain the spectral parameters for characterization of the GSH-Gly signal under physiological conditions. The second goal was to investigate a new method of separating GSH-Gly from Glx in vivo. The characterization of the signal was carried out by utilization of numerical simulations as well as experiments over a wide range of magnetic fields (4.0-14 T). The proposed separation scheme utilizes J-difference editing to quantify the Glx contribution to separate it from the GSH-Gly signal. The presented method retains 100% of the GSH-Gly signal. The overall increase in signal to noise ratio of the targeted resonance is calculated to yield a significant SNR improvement compared to previously used methods that target GSH-Cys residue. This allows shorter acquisition times for in vivo human clinical studies. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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