Model-based extraction of features, e.g. Lorentzian fitting of Z-spectra, in CEST MRI can be limited by the underlying model assumptions. Here we analyzed high spectral resolution Z-spectra acquired at 9.4T in five healthy subjects and one tumor patient using principal component analysis, a purely data-driven statistical procedure. Projection of Z-spectra onto principle components from a group of healthy subjects provides several relevant contrasts which reveal anatomical detail and correlate with Gadolinium uptake signatures in a brain tumor patient.
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