Glutamate (Glu) incorporates 13C label on its C4 carbon (13C4-Glu) following a 13C-labelled glucose (Glc) infusion, resulting in a ≈2.51ppm proton “satellite” peak that provides an indirect measure of 13C4-Glu. Quantification of the satellite peak is complicated at short echo time (TE) due to overlap with the ≈2.49ppm N-acetylaspartate (NAA) peak. A PRESS, point resolved spectroscopy, (TE1, TE2) combination of (20ms, 106ms) was found to be suitable for resolving the ≈2.51ppm 13C4-Glu proton peak from that of NAA at 9.4T by exploiting differences in J-coupling evolution. The efficacy of the technique is verified on rat brain during a [U-13C6]-Glc infusion.
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