High‐resolution metabolic mapping of the cerebellum using 2D zoom magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging

AbstractPurposeThe human cerebellum plays an important role in functional activity cerebrum which is ranging from motor to cognitive activities since due to its relaying role between spinal cord and cerebrum. The cerebellum poses many challenges to magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) due to the caudal location, the susceptibility to physiological artifacts and partial volume artifact due to its complex anatomical structure. Thus, in present study, we propose a high-resolution MRSI acquisition scheme for the cerebellum.MethodsA zoomed or reduced-field of view (rFOV) metabolite-cycled full-intensity magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) at 3T with a nominal resolution of 62.5 μL was developed. Single-slice rFOV MRSI data were acquired from the cerebellum of 5 healthy subjects with a nominal resolution of 2.5□×□2.5□mm2 in 9□minutes 36. Spectra were quantified with LCModel. A spatially unbiased atlas template of the cerebellum was used for analyzing metabolite distributions in the cerebellum.ResultsThe high quality of the achieved spectra enabled to generate a high-resolution metabolic map of total N-acetylaspartate, total creatine, total choline, glutamate+glutamine and myo-inositol with Cramér-Rao lower bounds below 50%. A spatially unbiased atlas template of the cerebellum-based region of interest (ROIs) analysis resulted in spatially dependent metabolite distributions in 9 ROIs. The group-averaging across subjects in the Montreal Neurological Institute-152 template space allowed to generate a very high-resolution metabolite maps in the cerebellum.ConclusionThese findings indicate that very high-resolution metabolite probing of cerebellum is feasible using rFOV or zoomed MRSI at 3T.

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Three-dimensional high-resolution magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging for absolute quantification of31P metabolites in human liver

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine ◽

10.1002/mrm.21762 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 60 (4) ◽

pp. 796-802 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

M. Chmelík ◽

A. I. Schmid ◽

S. Gruber ◽

J. Szendroedi ◽

M. Krššák ◽

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Keyword(s):

Magnetic Resonance ◽

High Resolution ◽

Human Liver ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

Spectroscopic Imaging ◽

Absolute Quantification ◽

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging

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Mapping an Extended Neurochemical Profile at 3 and 7 T Using Accelerated High-Resolution Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging

Investigative Radiology ◽

10.1097/rli.0000000000000379 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 52 (10) ◽

pp. 631-639 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Stephan Gruber ◽

Eva Heckova ◽

Bernhard Strasser ◽

Michal Považan ◽

Gilbert J. Hangel ◽

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Keyword(s):

Magnetic Resonance ◽

High Resolution ◽

Proton Magnetic Resonance ◽

Spectroscopic Imaging ◽

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging ◽

Neurochemical Profile

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Lipid suppressed and tissue-fraction corrected metabolic distributions in human central brain structures using 2D 1H Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging at 7 tesla

10.1101/2020.06.09.142646 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Alex A. Bhogal ◽

Tommy A.A. Broeders ◽

Lisan Morsinkhof ◽

Mirte Edens ◽

Sahar Nassirpour ◽

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Keyword(s):

Magnetic Resonance ◽

High Resolution ◽

Spectroscopic Imaging ◽

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging ◽

Brain Diseases ◽

7 Tesla ◽

Partial Volume ◽

Scan Time ◽

Central Brain

ABSTRACTMagnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) has the potential to add a layer of understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms underlying brain diseases, disease progression, and treatment efficacy. Limitations related to metabolite fitting of low SNR data, signal variations due to partial volume effects, acquisition and extra-cranial lipid artefacts, along with clinically relevant aspects such as scan-time constraints, are among the factors that hinder the widespread implementation of in vivo MRSI. The aim of this work was to address these factors and to develop an acquisition, reconstruction and post-processing pipeline to derive lipid suppressed metabolite values based on Free Induction Decay (FID-MRSI) measurements made using a 7 tesla MR scanner. Anatomical images were used to perform high-resolution (1mm3) partial-volume correction to account for grey matter, white matter and cerebral-spinal fluid signal contributions. Implementation of automatic quality control thresholds and normalization of metabolic maps from 23 subjects to the MNI standard atlas facilitated the creation of high-resolution average metabolite maps of several clinically relevant metabolites in central brain regions, while accounting for macromolecular distributions. Reported metabolite values include glutamate, choline, (phospo)creatine, myo-inositol, glutathione, N-acetyl aspartyl glutamate(and glutamine) and N-acetyl aspartate. MNI-registered average metabolite maps facilitate group-based analysis; thus offering the possibility to mitigate uncertainty in variable MRSI.

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High-Resolution Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging using a Multi-Encoder Attention U-Net with Structural and Adversarial Loss

10.1109/embc46164.2021.9630146 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Siyuan Dong ◽

Gilbert Hangel ◽

Wolfgang Bogner ◽

Siegfried Trattnig ◽

Karl Rossler ◽

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Keyword(s):

Magnetic Resonance ◽

High Resolution ◽

Spectroscopic Imaging ◽

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging

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Musculoskeletal fat imaging and quantification by high-resolution metabolite cycling magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging at 3 T: A fast method to generate separate distribution maps of lipid components

10.1101/732016 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Ahmad A. Alhulail ◽

Debra A. Patterson ◽

Pingyu Xia ◽

Xiaopeng Zhou ◽

Chen Lin ◽

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Keyword(s):

Magnetic Resonance ◽

High Resolution ◽

Spectroscopic Imaging ◽

Structural Similarity ◽

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging ◽

Fast Method ◽

Fat Quantification ◽

Distribution Maps ◽

Scanning Time ◽

Calf Muscles

AbstractPurposeTo provide a rapid, non-invasive fat quantification technique capable of producing separate lipid component maps.MethodsThe calf muscles in 5 healthy adolescents (age 12-16 years; BMI = 20 ± 3 Kg/m2) were scanned by two different fat fraction (FF) quantification methods. A high-resolution, density-weighted concentric ring trajectory (DW-CRT) metabolite cycling (MC) magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) technique was implemented to collect data with 0.25 mL resolution within 3 minutes and 16 seconds. For comparative purposes, the standard Dixon technique was performed. The two techniques were compared using structural similarity (SSIM) analysis. Additionally, the difference in the distribution of each lipid over the adolescent calf muscles was assessed based on the MRSI data.ResultsThe proposed MRSI technique provided individual FF maps for eight musculoskeletal lipids identified by LCModel analysis (L09, L11, L13, L15, L21, L23, L53, and L55) with mean SSIM indices of 0.19, 0.04, 0.03, 0.50, 0.45, 0.04, 0.07, and 0.12, respectively compared to that of Dixon’s FF map. Further analysis of voxels with zero SSIM demonstrated an increased sensitivity of FF lipid maps from data acquired using this MRSI technique over the standard Dixon technique. The trend of lipid spatial distribution over calf muscles was consistent with previously published findings in adults.ConclusionThe advantages of this MRSI technique make it a useful tool when individual lipid FF maps are desired within a short scanning time.

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