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Amide proton transfer imaging with improved robustness to magnetic field inhomogeneity and magnetization transfer asymmetry using saturation with frequency alternating RF irradiation

✍ Scribed by Rachel Scheidegger; Elena Vinogradov; David C. Alsop


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
462 KB
Volume
66
Category
Article
ISSN
0740-3194

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Abstract

Amide proton transfer (APT) imaging results in a representative human volunteer. a: B~0~ map calculated from the low SNR z‐spectrum images by the B~0~ correction algorithm. b: MTR~asym~ map and c: MTR~SAFARI~ map calculated from the high SNR APT images without B~0~ correction. The uncorrected MTR~asym~ map shows large spatial intensity variation over the brain, which corresponds to the water frequency shift map. The uncorrected MTR~SAFARI~ map shows a remarkable improvement in homogeneity over the brain. From the article by Scheidegger et al (pp 1275‐1285).