Abstract #1016

Single-Shot Spiral Chemical Shift Imaging in the Rat In Vivo with Hyperpolarized [1-13C]-Pyruvate

Dirk Mayer^1,2, Yi-Fen Yen³, Atsushi Takahashi³, James Tropp³, Brian K. Rutt², Ralph E. Hurd³, Daniel M. Spielman², Adolf Pfefferbaum^1,4

¹Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, United States; ²Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States; ³GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA; ⁴Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

Using undersampled ¹³C spiral chemical shift imaging (CSI) in combination with a high-performance gradient insert we achieved single-shot hyperpolarized ¹³C metabolic imaging of the rat in a clinical 3T MR scanner. With an acquisition time of 125 ms, the method produced metabolic images of pyruvate and its metabolic products lactate and alanine with similar quality as with conventional CSI using phase encoding, despite an almost 200-fold reduction in acquisition time. Because the longitudinal magnetization does not recover in hyperpolarized MRI, there is no intrinsic SNR disadvantage of the faster imaging method.