A recently introduced technique has been used to remove the semisolid macromolecular magnetization transfer (MT) contribution from Z-spectra in order to isolate the contrast from chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) and the relayed nuclear Overhauser effect (rNOE). This is usually performed by first fitting Z-spectra acquired with high amplitude RF saturation with a two-pool quantitative MT model and then extrapolating an MT-only Z-spectrum to a lower saturation B1 and subtracting from Z-spectra acquired with the same B1. We aim to show that this two-step pipeline introduces inaccuracies into the extrapolation and describe them.
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