Abstract #4041
            Separation and Quantitative Assessment of Mobile Lipid and Lactate Level by Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (DW-MRS)
                      Anna M. WANG                     1,2                    , Karrie Mei-Yee Kiang                     3                    , 						GK Leung                     3                    , Adrian Tsang                     1,2                    , Victor 						B. Xie                     1,2                    , Hua Guo                     4                    , and Ed X. Wu                     1,2          
            
            1
           
           Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging and Signal 
						Processing, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong 
						Kong,
           
            2
           
           Department 
						of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University 
						of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong,
           
            3
           
           Department 
						of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong 
						Kong,
           
            4
           
           Center for Biomedical Imaging Research, 
						School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, China
          
            
          This study explored the capability of Diffusion Weighted 
						Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (DW-MRS) for the 
						separation and quantification of the overlapped mobile 
						lipid and lactate signal at 1.3ppm. Both the content and 
						ADC value can be computed from fitting the diffusion 
						weighted signal to a bi-exponential decay model. In this 
						rat model of intracerebral C6 glioma, the spectra from 
						the tumor region was dominated by the mobile lipid 
						signal and the lipid signal intensity is approximately 
						ten times higher than the lactate signal. Our result 
						also shows the lactate ADC in C6 glioma is 
						2.9(0.9)104 mm2/s and the lipid ADC is 3.3(1.3)104 
						mm2/s. Demonstrated by this study, the DW-MRS provides a 
						feasible way to solve the overlapping problem of the 
						lactate and mobile lipid peak at 1.3ppm, giving an 
						alternative method for the quantification of lipid and 
						lactate content in the clinical study.
         
				
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