Strategy for lipid suppression in lactate imaging using STIR-DQCT: a study of hypoxic-ischemic brain injury.
In vivo lactate detection using gradient enhanced double quantum coherence transfer (DQCT) was significantly improved by addition of short-time-inversion-recovery (STIR). Phantom studies demonstrated lipid suppression down to the background noise level with 33% loss of lactate signal. In vivo studies using a rabbit model of hypoxic and unilateral-ischemic brain injury showed reduction down to 29 +/- 11% in lipids with inversion times between 140 and 170 ms. Lactate signals on the ischemic side were 51 +/- 53% higher than the nonischemic side at the peak of hypoxia. STIR-DQCT can be a useful robust method of obtaining metabolic maps of lactate in vivo.
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Department of Radiology, Stanford University Medical Center Lucas, California, USA.
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Okada
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Stevenson
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Spielman
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D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000378:metabolism*; D002534:Hypoxia, Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods; D019344:Lactic Acid / Q000378:metabolism*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D011817:Rabbits
D019344:Lactic Acid