Detecting natural abundance carbon signal of NAA metabolite within 12-cm3 localized volume of human brain using 1H-{13C} NMR spectroscopy
✍ Scribed by Wei Chen; Gregor Adriany; Xiao-Hong Zhu; Rolf Gruetter; Kamil Ugurbil
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 520 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0740-3194
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
NMR spectroscopy has been applied extensively to study metabolism noninvasively in the human brain and other tissues. However, it usually suffers from poor signal‐to‐noise ratio due to low NMR sensitivity and low metabolite concentrations. In this study, the technique of proton‐observe‐carbon‐edited (POCE) NMR spectroscopy combined with a single‐shot localization sequence was used to detect the natural abundance carbon signal of the amino acid N‐acetyl aspartate from a 12‐cm^3^ localized volume in the occipital lobe of humans at 4 T. The results suggest that NMR spectroscopy is sensitive enough to detect signals from low concentration metabolites (<60 nmol/g) from small volumes in the human brain within several minutes of data acquisition. This reveals that in vivo NMR spectroscopy is a promising technique for detecting small metabolite changes and low traces of ^13^C isotopic labeling for dynamic metabolism studies aimed at investigating physiological and pathological questions.