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@ARTICLE{Zu:128664,
author = {Z. Zu and H. Li and J. Xu and X.-Y. Zhang and M. Zaiss$^*$
and K. Li and M. D. Does and J. C. Gore and D. F. Gochberg},
title = {{M}easurement of {APT} using a combined {CERT}-{AREX}
approach with varying duty cycles.},
journal = {Magnetic resonance imaging},
volume = {42},
issn = {0730-725X},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier Science},
reportid = {DKFZ-2017-04680},
pages = {22 - 31},
year = {2017},
abstract = {The goal is to develop an imaging method where contrast
reflects amide-water magnetization exchange, with minimal
signal contributions from other sources. Conventional
chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) imaging of
amides (often called amide proton transfer, or APT, and
quantified by the metric MTRasym) is confounded by several
factors unrelated to amides, such as aliphatic protons,
water relaxation, and macromolecular magnetization transfer.
In this work, we examined the effects of combining our
previous chemical exchange rotation (CERT) approach with the
non-linear AREX method while using different duty cycles
(DC) for the label and reference scans. The dependencies of
this approach, named AREXdouble,vdc, on tissue parameters,
including T1, T2, semi-solid component concentration (fm),
relayed nuclear Overhauser enhancement (rNOE), and nearby
amines, were studied through numerical simulations and
control sample experiments at 9.4T and 1μT irradiation.
Simulations and experiments show that AREXdouble,vdc is
sensitive to amide-water exchange effects, but is relatively
insensitive to T1, T2, fm, nearby amine, and distant
aliphatic protons, while the conventional metric MTRasym, as
well as several other APT imaging methods, are significantly
affected by at least some of these confounding factors.},
cin = {E020},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-He78)E020-20160331},
pnm = {315 - Imaging and radiooncology (POF3-315)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-315},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:28526431},
pmc = {pmc:PMC5581699},
doi = {10.1016/j.mri.2017.05.001},
url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/128664},
}