title: High-flux signals and spatial localization in high-resolution 1H spectroscopy with surface coils.
abstract: To perform in vivo localized proton spectroscopy with water suppression, spin-echo sequences, made of binomial pulses, are commonly used with surface coils. The frequency selective response to such a sequence is also-spatially dependent, that is dependent on the sample shape and on the pulse angle adjustment. It is consequently pointed out in this paper that quantitative analysis for relative peak intensities may be strongly affected by the contribution of the high-flux regions. In vivo proton spectroscopy of rat brain exemplifies this difficulty. It is shown that the use of selective prepulses to suppress high-flux signals may be of poor efficiency depending on chemical shift, while the use of hard nonselective prepulses works for any chemical shift.
authors.affiliation: Groupe de Résonance Magnétique en Biologie et Médecine DRF/SPH, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires, Grenoble, France.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bourgeois
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Decorps
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Remy
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Benabid
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004867:Equipment Design; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D011522:Protons
chemical_list: D011522:Protons