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Abstract #0458

Diffusion characteristic of infused Acetate in the rat brain in vivo

Masoumeh Dehghani M. 1 , Bernard Lanz 1 , Nicolas Kunz 2 , Corina Mihaela Berset 2 , and Rolf Gruetter 1,3

1 Laboratory of Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland, 2 Center for Biomedical Imaging, Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland, 3 Departments of Radiology, Universities of Lausanne and Geneva, Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland

The aim of this study is to address the diffusion characteristic of Acetate(Ace) in the rat brain in vivo using localized diffusion weighed STEAM-based spectroscopic pulse sequence. The study design is based on the assumption that intracellular and extracellular metabolites experiences different diffusion behavior. Minimizing GABA peak contribution at 1.89 ppm in 1H MR spectra improved the accuracy of the measurement of Ace time course and the Ace diffusion in brain in vivo. The significantly larger ADC of Ace compared to intracellular metabolites suggests a substantial Ace concentration in the extracellular space of rat brain during Ace infusion.

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