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Article Dans Une Revue Radiology Année : 1994

Three-dimensional echo-planar MR spectroscopic imaging at short echo times in the human brain.

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PURPOSE: To demonstrate the feasibility of three-dimensional echo-planar spectroscopic imaging (EPSI) at short echo time (13 msec) with a conventional clinical imager in the human brain. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Periodic inversions of a readout gradient were used during data acquisition to simultaneously encode chemical shift and one spatial dimension in one excitation. Aliasing artifacts were avoided with a modified acquisition-and-processing method based on oversampling. A double outer-volume suppression technique that adapts to the ovoid brain shape was used to strongly reduce extracranial lipid resonances. RESULTS: Three-dimensional spatial encoding in vivo of eight sections with 32 x 32 voxels each (0.75 cm3) was performed in 34 minutes with four signal averages. The spectral resolution and signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) of resonances of inositol, choline, creatine, glutamate and glutamine, and N-acetyl aspartate were consistent with those previously recorded with conventional phase encoding. CONCLUSION: EPSI substantially reduces acquisition time for three-dimensional spatial encoding and yields a spectral quality similar to that obtained with conventional techniques without affecting the S/N per unit time and unit volume.

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hal-00350004 , version 1 (05-01-2009)

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  • HAL Id : hal-00350004 , version 1
  • PUBMED : 8058941

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S. Posse, C. Decarli, D. Le Bihan. Three-dimensional echo-planar MR spectroscopic imaging at short echo times in the human brain.. Radiology, 1994, 192 (3), pp.733-8. ⟨hal-00350004⟩
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