Ralph E.
Hurd1, Dirk Mayer2,3, Yi-Fen Yen1, James
Tropp1, Adolf Pfefferbaum2,4, Daniel Spielman3
1Applied Sciences Laboratory, GE
Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA, United States; 2SRI International; 3Radiology,
Stanford; 4Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
Dynamic
hyperpolarized [1-13C]- pyruvate metabolic imaging in normal anesthetized rat
brain is demonstrated on a clinical 3T MRI scanner. A 12 s bolus injection of
hyperpolarized [1-13C]-pyruvate is imaged at a 3 s temporal resolution using
125 msec spiral spectroscopic images. The observed dynamics are evaluated
with respect to cerebral blood volume, flow, transport, and metabolic
exchange with the cerebral lactate pool.
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