Investigating the origin of pH-sensitive magnetization transfer ratio asymmetry MRI contrast during the acute stroke: Correction of T1 change reveals the dominant amide proton transfer MRI signal.
Limin WuLiang JiangPhillip Zhe SunPublished in: Magnetic resonance in medicine (2020)
Our study shows that after the relaxation-effect correction, the APT effect is the dominant contributing factor to pH-weighted MTRasym following acute stroke.