Abstract #2258

Transverse Relaxation Times of Strongly J-Coupled Metabolites with LASER & CP-LASER in the Rat Brain

Dinesh K. Deelchand¹, Pierre-Gilles Henry¹, Kamil Ugurbil¹, Malgorzata Marjanska¹

¹Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States

This study demonstrates that the increase in transverse relaxation times is higher for strongly J-coupled resonances than for singlet and weakly J-coupled resonances when incorporating the CP pulse train (non-selective adiabatic full passage pulses) within the LASER sequence in the rat brain.