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| Journal Article | DKFZ-2025-02089 |
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2026
Wiley-Liss
New York, NY [u.a.]
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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:DOI:10.1002/mrm.70114 doi:DOI:10.1002/mrm.70114
Abstract: The aim was to improve the sensitivity and robustness against B0 inhomogeneities of deuterium metabolic imaging (DMI) using phase-cycled balanced SSFP (bSSFP) methods at 9.4 T.We investigated two variants of phase-cycled bSSFP acquisitions, namely uniformly weighted multi-echo and acquisition-weighted chemical shift imaging (CSI) to improve the SNR of DMI in the brain after oral [6,6'-2H2]-glucose intake. Phase-cycling was introduced to reduce the off-resonance sensitivity of bSSFP, incurring a moderate SNR loss. Two SNR optimal methods for obtaining metabolite amplitudes from the phase-cycled bSSFP data were proposed. The SNR performance of the two bSSFP variants was compared with the SNR-optimized vendor's standard CSI. Additionally, in vivo T1 and T2 of deuterium metabolites were estimated.High-resolution whole-brain dynamic DMI maps were obtained for all acquisitions. The CSI variant of phase-cycled bSSFP achieved an average SNR increase of 16% and 25% for glucose and glutamate + glutamine (Glx), respectively, compared to the SNR-optimized vendor's standard CSI. Phase-cycling improved the bSSFP metabolite estimation and provided additional spectral encoding at the cost of a 10% to 20% SNR loss. Compared to the CSI variant of bSSFP acquisition, the multi-echo variant exhibited up to 35% lower SNR performance because of uniform k-space weighting and less efficient readout. However, it achieved higher resolutions than acquisition-weighted CSI protocols and showed several qualitative improvements.We demonstrated the feasibility of using two phase-cycled bSSFP acquisitions for off-resonance insensitive high-resolution [6,6'-2H2]-glucose DMI studies in the human brain. bSSFP acquisitions have potential to improve the sensitivity of DMI despite the SNR loss of phase-cycling and other human scanner constraints.
Keyword(s): IDEAL ; SNR ; bSSFP ; deuterium metabolic imaging ; ultra‐high‐field
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