Chemical-shift imaging: a hybrid approach.
The hybrid technique of projection-reconstruction echo-planar (PREP) imaging for obtaining chemical-shift images is demonstrated experimentally using a fluorine sample. The technique which is a variation on echo-planar imaging (EPI) relies on a multipass procedure. It is nevertheless quite efficient and consequently chemical-shift images may be produced in a few minutes. The method produces images in 64 chemical-shift regions, each region mapped spatially by 64 X 64 pixels. The imaging time was just over 4 min. These 64 chemical-shifted images can be straightforwardly added together to form an undistorted image of the complete object. In addition the chemical-shift spectrum can be extracted and the various chemical-shift images can be unambiguously assigned to the spectral peaks.
Department of Physics, University of Nottingham, England.
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D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008961:Models, Structural