Abstract #3017

Very Short Echo Time MRS for Single Voxel Spectroscopy in Small Voxels

Ariane Fillmer¹, Ioannis Angelos Giapitzakis², Ralf Mekle³, Semiha Aydin¹, Anke Henning^2,4, Bernd Ittermann¹, and Florian Schubert¹

¹Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Berlin, Germany, ²Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany, ³Center for Stroke Research Berlin (CSB), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁴Institute of Physics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

This work presents the combination of metabolite cycling with a non-water-suppressed SPECIAL localization scheme in order to enable improved averaging coherence for very short echo time MRS in small voxels or voxels that suffer otherwise from low SNR or frequency instabilities.

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