Leo L. Tsai1,
Xiaoen Wang1, Gopal Varma1, David C. Alsop1,
Aaron K. Grant1
1Department
of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States
Hyperpolarized 13C-tert-butanol is a freely diffusible agent which allows for high SNR cerebral perfusion imaging. At 9.4 Tesla, we demonstrate relatively long in-vivo cerebral relaxation times (T2 = 0.71 0.03 s and T1 = 78 26 s), demonstrating feasibility for high-field imaging and spectroscopy with this agent.