Low duty cycle pulse trains for exchange rate insensitive chemical exchange saturation transfer MRI.
Julius Juhyun ChungTao JinPublished in: Magnetic resonance in medicine (2021)
Low DC π-pulse train is an easy-to-implement way of providing labile proton concentration-dependent CEST MRI signal that is insensitive to exchange rate. This approach can be useful in studies where a change of chemical exchange rate may interfere with accurate assessments of physiology or pathology.