3D multivoxel proton spectroscopy of human brain using a hybrid of 8th-order hadamard encoding with 2D chemical shift imaging

✍ Scribed by Oded Gonen; James B. Murdoch; Radka Stoyanova; Gadi Goelman

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 746 KB
• Volume: 39
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0740-3194
• DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910390108

✦ Synopsis

Multivoxel 3D localized proton spectroscopy using a hybrid of 1D 8th-order transverse Hadamard spectroscopic imaging (HSI) with 2D chemical shift imaging (CSI) is demonstrated in human brain. The spatially selective HSI pulse incorporates naturally into the PRESS sequence (TE = 135 ms), which then both excites an 8 x 8 x 6 cm parallelepiped volume of interest (VOI) and subdivides it into eight slices. The planes of these slices are further partitioned into 16 x 16 voxel arrays using 2D CSI to yield 8 x 8 x 8 voxels within the VOI. Simultaneous 3D coverage yields good voxel signal-to-noise (8, 12, and 22 for choline, creatine, and N-acetylaspartate, respectively) from these 0.75-ml voxels, in approximately 45 min. The high spatial isolation allows localization to within less than 1 cm from the skull without fat contamination.