Abstract #3165
Direct 31 P Magnetic Resonance Imaging Applying the Nuclear Overhauser Effect
Kristian Rink 1 , Moritz C. Berger 1 , Andreas Korzowski 1 , Peter Bachert 1 , and Armin M. Nagel 1
1
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ),
Heidelberg, Germany
Phosphorus plays a crucial role in the energy metabolism
of the human body but in comparison to
1
H
MRI the
in-vivo
signal
is four orders of magnitude smaller. In this work
phosphocreatine images of the human calf muscle at 3T
were acquired using a frequency selective 3D imaging
sequence amplified by Nuclear Overhauser Effect (NOE)
pulses. Implementing the NOE yields an SNR gain of up to
1.4
in-vivo
and
1.7 in phantom studies with an isotropic resolution of
1cm (TA=33min).
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