Zihan Zhu1,2, Peder E.Z. Larson1, Hsin-Yu Chen1,2, Peter J Shin1, Robert A Bok1, John Kurhanewicz1, and Daniel B Vigneron1
1Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States, 2UC Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, UC Berkeley and UCSF, San Francisco, CA, United States
Hyperpolarized 13C MRI has
been an emerging tool for in vivo
enzymatic activity assessment. In this study, two dynamic hyperpolarized 13C
sequences were compared in the same animal for two sequential injections in a
transgenic prostate tumor murine model. The results suggested that the dynamic
fitted metabolic conversion rates acquired from the two approaches were highly
correlated.