3D CEST MRI with an unevenly segmented RF irradiation scheme: A feasibility study in brain tumor imaging.

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Title: 3D CEST MRI with an unevenly segmented RF irradiation scheme: A feasibility study in brain tumor imaging.
Authors: Kim, Hahnsung1,2 (AUTHOR), Park, Suhyung3,4 (AUTHOR), Hu, Ranliang2 (AUTHOR), Hoang, Kimberly B.5 (AUTHOR), Sun, Phillip Zhe1,2 (AUTHOR) pzhesun@emory.edu
Source: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Dec2023, Vol. 90 Issue 6, p2400-2410. 11p.
Subjects: Brain tumors, Brain imaging, Magnetic resonance imaging, Irradiation, Feasibility studies
Abstract: Purpose: To integrate 3D CEST EPI with an unevenly segmented RF irradiation module and preliminarily demonstrate it in the clinical setting. Methods: A CEST MRI with unevenly segmented RF saturation was implemented, including a long primary RF saturation to induce the steady‐state CEST effect, maintained with repetitive short secondary RF irradiation between readouts. This configuration reduces relaxation‐induced blur artifacts during acquisition, allowing fast 3D spatial coverage. Numerical simulations were performed to select parameters such as flip angle (FA), short RF saturation duration (Ts2), and the number of readout segments. The sequence was validated experimentally with data from a phantom, healthy volunteers, and a brain tumor patient. Results: Based on the numerical simulation and l‐carnosine gel phantom experiment, FA, Ts2, and the number of segments were set to 20°, 0.3 s, and the range from 4 to 8, respectively. The proposed method minimized signal modulation in the human brain images in the kz direction during the acquisition and provided the blur artifacts‐free CEST contrast over the whole volume. Additionally, the CEST contrast in the tumor tissue region is higher than in the contralateral normal tissue region. Conclusions: It is feasible to implement a highly accelerated 3D EPI CEST imaging with unevenly segmented RF irradiation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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  Data: Purpose: To integrate 3D CEST EPI with an unevenly segmented RF irradiation module and preliminarily demonstrate it in the clinical setting. Methods: A CEST MRI with unevenly segmented RF saturation was implemented, including a long primary RF saturation to induce the steady‐state CEST effect, maintained with repetitive short secondary RF irradiation between readouts. This configuration reduces relaxation‐induced blur artifacts during acquisition, allowing fast 3D spatial coverage. Numerical simulations were performed to select parameters such as flip angle (FA), short RF saturation duration (Ts2), and the number of readout segments. The sequence was validated experimentally with data from a phantom, healthy volunteers, and a brain tumor patient. Results: Based on the numerical simulation and l‐carnosine gel phantom experiment, FA, Ts2, and the number of segments were set to 20°, 0.3 s, and the range from 4 to 8, respectively. The proposed method minimized signal modulation in the human brain images in the kz direction during the acquisition and provided the blur artifacts‐free CEST contrast over the whole volume. Additionally, the CEST contrast in the tumor tissue region is higher than in the contralateral normal tissue region. Conclusions: It is feasible to implement a highly accelerated 3D EPI CEST imaging with unevenly segmented RF irradiation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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