Hippocampal single-voxel MR spectroscopy with a long echo time at 3 T using semi-LASER sequence
(2021) In NMR in Biomedicine 34(8).- Abstract
The hippocampus is one of the most challenging brain regions for proton MR spectroscopy (MRS) applications. Moreover, quantification of J-coupled species such as myo-inositol (m-Ins) and glutamate + glutamine (Glx) is affected by the presence of macromolecular background. While long echo time (TE) MRS eliminates the macromolecules, it also decreases the m-Ins and Glx signal and, as a result, these metabolites are studied mainly with short TE. Here, we investigate the feasibility of reproducibly measuring their concentrations at a long TE of 120 ms, using a semi-adiabatic localization by adiabatic selective refocusing (sLASER) sequence, as this sequence was recently recommended as a standard for clinical MRS. Gradient offset-independent... (More)
The hippocampus is one of the most challenging brain regions for proton MR spectroscopy (MRS) applications. Moreover, quantification of J-coupled species such as myo-inositol (m-Ins) and glutamate + glutamine (Glx) is affected by the presence of macromolecular background. While long echo time (TE) MRS eliminates the macromolecules, it also decreases the m-Ins and Glx signal and, as a result, these metabolites are studied mainly with short TE. Here, we investigate the feasibility of reproducibly measuring their concentrations at a long TE of 120 ms, using a semi-adiabatic localization by adiabatic selective refocusing (sLASER) sequence, as this sequence was recently recommended as a standard for clinical MRS. Gradient offset-independent adiabatic refocusing pulses were implemented, and an optimal long TE for the detection of m-Ins and Glx was determined using the T2 relaxation times of macromolecules. Metabolite concentrations and their coefficients of variation (CVs) were obtained for a 3.4-mL voxel centered on the left hippocampus on 3-T MR systems at two different sites with three healthy subjects (aged 32.5 ± 10.2 years [mean ± standard deviation]) per site, with each subject scanned over two sessions, and with each session comprising three scans. Concentrations of m-Ins, choline, creatine, Glx and N-acetyl-aspartate were 5.4 ± 1.5, 1.7 ± 0.2, 5.8 ± 0.3, 11.6 ± 1.2 and 5.9 ± 0.4 mM (mean ± standard deviation), respectively. Their respective mean within-session CVs were 14.5% ± 5.9%, 6.5% ± 5.3%, 6.0% ± 3.4%, 10.6% ± 6.2% and 3.5% ± 1.4%, and their mean within-subject CVs were 17.8% ± 18.2%, 7.5% ± 6.3%, 7.4% ± 6.4%, 12.4% ± 5.3% and 4.8% ± 3.0%. The between-subject CVs were 25.0%, 12.3%, 5.3%, 10.7% and 6.4%, respectively. Hippocampal long-TE sLASER single voxel spectroscopy can provide macromolecule-independent assessment of all major metabolites including Glx and m-Ins.
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- Gajdošík, Martin ; Landheer, Karl ; Swanberg, Kelley M LU ; Adlparvar, Fatemeh ; Madelin, Guillaume ; Bogner, Wolfgang ; Juchem, Christoph and Kirov, Ivan I
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- 2021
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- Contribution to journal
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- Adult, Algorithms, Computer Simulation, Female, Hippocampus/diagnostic imaging, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Male, Metabolome, Time Factors
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- NMR in Biomedicine
- volume
- 34
- issue
- 8
- article number
- e4538
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- John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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- scopus:85105209462
- pmid:33956374
- ISSN
- 0952-3480
- DOI
- 10.1002/nbm.4538
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- English
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- 02dd852f-efd6-487f-9ecf-62c6b1834ad1
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