In vivo characterization of the downfield part of 1 H MR spectra of human brain at 9.4 T: Magnetization exchange with water and relation to conventionally determined metabolite content

Fichtner, Nicole Damara; Giapitzakis, Ioannis-Angelos; Avdievich, Nikolai; Mekle, Ralf; Zaldivar, Daniel; Henning, Anke; Kreis, Roland (2018). In vivo characterization of the downfield part of 1 H MR spectra of human brain at 9.4 T: Magnetization exchange with water and relation to conventionally determined metabolite content. Magnetic resonance in medicine, 79(6), pp. 2863-2873. Wiley-Liss 10.1002/mrm.26968

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PURPOSE:
To perform exchange-rate measurements on the in vivo human brain downfield spectrum (5-10 ppm) at 9.4 T and to compare the variation in concentrations of the downfield resonances and of known upfield metabolites to determine potential peak labels.

METHODS:
Non-water-suppressed metabolite cycling was used in combination with an inversion transfer technique in two brain locations in healthy volunteers to measure the exchange rates and T1 values of exchanging peaks. Spectra were fitted with a heuristic model of a series of 13 or 14 Voigt lines, and a Bloch-McConnell model was used to fit the exchange rate curves. Concentrations from non-water-inverted spectra upfield and downfield were compared.

RESULTS:
Mean T1 values ranged from 0.40 to 0.77 s, and exchange rates from 0.74 to 13.8 s-1 . There were no significant correlations between downfield and upfield concentrations, except for N-acetylaspartate, with a correlation coefficient of 0.63 and P < 0.01.

CONCLUSIONS:
Using ultrahigh field allowed improved separation of peaks in the 8.2 to 8.5 ppm amide proton region, and the exchange rates of multiple downfield resonances including the 5.8-ppm peak, previously tentatively assigned to urea, were measured in vivo in human brain. Downfield peaks consisted of overlapping components, and largely missing correlations between upfield and downfield resonances-although not conclusive-indicate limited contributions from metabolites present upfield to the downfield spectrum. Magn Reson Med, 2017. © 2017 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Radiology, Neuroradiology and Nuclear Medicine (DRNN) > Institute of Diagnostic, Interventional and Paediatric Radiology > DCR Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Methodology (AMSM)
04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > BioMedical Research (DBMR) > Forschungsbereich Pavillon 52 > Abt. Magnetresonanz-Spektroskopie und Methodologie, AMSM

Graduate School:

Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences (GCB)

UniBE Contributor:

Fichtner, Nicole Damara, Kreis, Roland

ISSN:

0740-3194

Publisher:

Wiley-Liss

Language:

English

Submitter:

Roland Kreis

Date Deposited:

06 Mar 2018 10:24

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:09

Publisher DOI:

10.1002/mrm.26968

Related URLs:

PubMed ID:

29034505

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.108911

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/108911

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