Short TR, Elongated Echo Time Spectroscopy (STREETS) of Muscle at 3 T.

Giulio Gambarota¹, Mark Tanner¹, Rex D. Newbould¹

The measurement of IMCL is hampered by the fact that IMCL resonances overlap with the much larger resonances of extramyocellular lipids (EMCL). Long echo time acquisition allows for a better discrimination of IMCL from EMCL, however, it to suffer from the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).