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Abstract #2354

CSI Without Water Suppression at 3T

Grzegorz Lukasz Chadzynski1, Uwe Klose1

1Neuroradiology, University Hospital, Tuebingen, Baden-Wuerttenberg, Germany


Proposed method offers spectra with sufficient quality for the quantification of the main metabolites (choline, creatine, NAA). Individual correction of the local resonant frequency can be performed even for a small voxels. This correction can be done by an evaluation of the water signal position. Moreover obtained CSI spectra do not need phase correction. Therefore it is possible to calculate a sum spectrum from a certain area which corresponds with certain anatomical structure. Such spectrum offers a higher SNR and better spectral resolution than SVS spectrum.