High‐resolution proton metabolic mapping of the human brain at 7 T using free induction decay rosette spectroscopic imaging

Author:

Mahmud Sultan Z.12ORCID,Denney Thomas S.12,Bashir Adil12

Affiliation:

1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Auburn University Auburn Alabama USA

2. Auburn University MRI Research Center Auburn University Auburn Alabama USA

Abstract

AbstractMagnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) provides information about the spatial distribution of metabolites in the brain. These metabolite maps can be valuable in diagnosing central nervous system pathology. However, MRSI generally suffers from a long acquisition time, poor spatial resolution, and a low metabolite signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR). Ultrahigh field strengths (≥ 7 T) can benefit MRSI with an improved SNR and allow high‐resolution metabolic mapping. Non‐Cartesian spatial‐spectral encoding techniques, such as rosette spectroscopic imaging, can efficiently sample spatial and temporal domains, which significantly reduces the imaging time and enables high‐resolution metabolic mapping in a clinically relevant scan time. In the current study, high‐resolution (in‐plane resolution of 2 × 2 mm2) mapping of proton (1H) metabolites in the human brain at 7 T, is demonstrated. Five healthy subjects participated in the study. Using a time‐efficient rosette trajectory and short TR/TE free induction decay MRSI, high‐resolution maps of 1H metabolites were obtained in a clinically relevant imaging time (6 min). Suppression of the water signal was achieved with an optimized water suppression enhanced through T1 effects approach and lipid removal was performed using L2‐regularization in the postprocessing. Spatial distributions of N‐acetyl‐aspartate, total choline, creatine, N‐acetyl‐aspartyl glutamate, myo‐inositol, and glutamate were generated with Cramer–Rao lower bounds of less than 20%.

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Spectroscopy,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging,Molecular Medicine

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