TY - JOUR AU - Bulanov, Petr AU - Menshchikov, Petr AU - Grimm, Johannes AU - Lutz, Max AU - Orzada, Stephan AU - Boyd, Philip AU - Bachert, Peter AU - Ladd, Mark AU - Korzowski, Andreas AU - Schmitter, Sebastian TI - Human liver CEST imaging at 7 T: Impact of B 1 + shimming. JO - Magnetic resonance in medicine VL - 94 IS - 4 SN - 1522-2594 CY - New York, NY [u.a.] PB - Wiley-Liss M1 - DKFZ-2025-01075 SP - 1604-1615 PY - 2025 N1 - #EA:E020#LA:E020# / Volume 94, Issue 4 pp. 1604-1615 AB - To explore the feasibility of CEST imaging in the human liver at 7 T with B 1 + AB - <br clear="all" /><table border="0" width="100%"><tr><td> AB - <table align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td nowrap="nowrap" align="center"> AB - B<sub>1</sub><sup>+</sup> </td></tr></table> AB - </td></tr></table> AB - AB - shimming.CEST MRI was performed on a 7 T whole-body scanner with a parallel transmission (pTx) system in five healthy volunteers. Static pTx ( B 1 + AB - <br clear="all" /><table border="0" width="100%"><tr><td> AB - <table align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td nowrap="nowrap" align="center"> AB - B<sub>1</sub><sup>+</sup> </td></tr></table> AB - </td></tr></table> AB - AB - shimming) was applied to locally maximize the B 1 + AB - <br clear="all" /><table border="0" width="100%"><tr><td> AB - <table align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td nowrap="nowrap" align="center"> AB - B<sub>1</sub><sup>+</sup> </td></tr></table> AB - </td></tr></table> AB - AB - magnitude per input power within a given region of interest (ROI) of approximately 30 mm diameter (ROIshim). Relaxation-compensated inverse magnetization transfer ratio (MTRRex) values were quantified for amide protons, guanidino protons, and relayed nuclear Overhauser effect signals based on five-pool Lorentzian fit analysis. MTRRex values were corrected for B1 inhomogeneities using an absolute, accurate MR fingerprinting-based B 1 + AB - <br clear="all" /><table border="0" width="100%"><tr><td> AB - <table align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td nowrap="nowrap" align="center"> AB - B<sub>1</sub><sup>+</sup> </td></tr></table> AB - </td></tr></table> AB - AB - mapping technique.Within the ROIshim, reliable MTRRex values could be calculated for an average of 85 KW - 7 T (Other) KW - B1 correction (Other) KW - B1+ B 1 + $$ {B}_1^{+} $$ shimming (Other) KW - body CEST (Other) KW - liver CEST (Other) KW - pTx (Other) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - pmid:40411372 DO - DOI:10.1002/mrm.30557 UR - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/301567 ER -