title: Reduction of spinning sidebands in proton NMR of human prostate tissue with slow high-resolution magic angle spinning.
abstract: High-resolution magic angle spinning (HRMAS) NMR spectroscopy has proven useful for analyzing intact tissue and permitting correlations to be made between tissue metabolites and disease pathologies. Extending these studies to slow-spinning methodologies helps protect tissue pathological structures from HRMAS centrifuging damage and may permit the study of larger objects. Spinning sidebands (SSBs), which are produced by slow spinning, must be suppressed to prevent the complication of metabolic spectral regions. In this study human prostate tissues, as well as gel samples of a metabolite mixture solution, were measured with continuous-wave (CW) water presaturation on a 14.1T spectrometer, with HRMAS spinning rates of 250, 300, 350, 600, and 700 Hz, and 3.0 kHz. Editing the spectra by means of a simple minimum function (Min(A, B, ..., N) for N spectra acquired at different but close spinning rates) produced SSB-free spectra. Statistically significant linear correlations were observed for metabolite concentrations quantified from the Min(A, B, ..., N)-edited spectra generated at low spinning rates, with concentrations measured from the 3 kHz spectra, and also with quantitative pathology. These results indicate the empirical utility of this scheme for analyzing intact tissue, which also may be used as an adjunct tool in pathology for diagnosing disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Melissa A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Burns
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: Chin-Lee
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Andrea G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Zepeda
authors.forename: Anthony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bielecki
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cory
authors.forename: Leo L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D011467:Prostate / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D011522:Protons; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013113:Spin Labels
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers; D011522:Protons; D013113:Spin Labels