Preoperative grading is important for treatment planning in glioma patients. Amide proton transfer (APT) -weighted imaging is helpful in grading since it reflects metabolic changes associated with mobile proteins and peptides. However, the conventional APT based on asymmetrical analysis receives contaminations from semi-solid magnetization transfer asymmetry and nuclear overhauser enhancement effects. Multi-component Z-spectral fitting for the separated quantification of APT can help to remove those contaminations. In this study, we performed such fitting on Z-spectral data from glioma patients. We found that fitted APT provided higher power in differentiating low- and high- grade gliomas compared to the conventional APT quantification.
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