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Fast High-Resolution Metabolite Mapping in the rat Brain Using 1H-FID-MRSI at 14.1 T

Simicic, Dunja  
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Alves, Brayan  
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Mosso, Jessie  
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February 1, 2025
NMR in Biomedicine

Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) enables the simultaneous noninvasive acquisition of MR spectra from multiple spatial locations inside the brain. Although 1H-MRSI is increasingly used in the human brain, it is not yet widely applied in the preclinical setting, mostly because of difficulties specifically related to very small nominal voxel size in the rat brain and low concentration of brain metabolites, resulting in low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In this context, we implemented a free induction decay 1H-MRSI sequence (1H-FID-MRSI) in the rat brain at 14.1 T. We combined the advantages of 1H-FID-MRSI with the ultra-high magnetic field to achieve higher SNR, coverage, and spatial resolution in the rat brain and developed a custom dedicated processing pipeline with a graphical user interface for Bruker 1H-FID-MRSI: MRS4Brain toolbox. LCModel fit, using the simulated metabolite basis set and in vivo measured MM, provided reliable fits for the data at acquisition delays of 1.30 ms. The resulting Cramér–Rao lower bounds were sufficiently low (< 30%) for eight metabolites of interest (total creatine, N-acetylaspartate, N-acetylaspartate + N-acetylaspartylglutamate, total choline, glutamine, glutamate, myo-inositol, and taurine), leading to highly reproducible metabolic maps. Similar spectral quality and metabolic maps were obtained with one and two averages, with slightly better contrast and brain coverage due to increased SNR in the latter case. Furthermore, the obtained metabolic maps were accurate enough to confirm the previously known brain regional distribution of some metabolites. The acquisitions proved high reproducibility over time. We demonstrated that the increased SNR and spectral resolution at 14.1 T can be translated into high spatial resolution in 1H-FID-MRSI of the rat brain in 13 min using the sequence and processing pipeline described herein. High-resolution 1H-FID-MRSI at 14.1 T provided robust, reproducible, and high-quality metabolic mapping of brain metabolites with minimal technical limitations.

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DOI
10.1002/nbm.5304
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85212583315

PubMed ID

39711201

Author(s)
Simicic, Dunja  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Alves, Brayan  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Mosso, Jessie  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

van Heeswijk, Ruud B

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois

Briand, Guillaume  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Lê, Thanh Phong  

EPFL

Starčuková, Jana

Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Lanz, Bernard  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Klauser, Antoine

Siemens Healthineers International AG

Strasser, Bernhard

Medizinische Universität Wien

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Date Issued

2025-02-01

Published in
NMR in Biomedicine
Volume

38

Issue

2

Article Number

e5304

Subjects

1 H-FID-MRSI

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brain metabolites

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magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging

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metabolite mapping

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rat brain

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ultra-high field

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EPFL

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CIBM-MRI  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

UNIL

UNIGE

EPFL

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January 25, 2025
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