Water Exchange Spectroscopy (WEX) is one of the most widely used approaches to assess the exchange rate of labile protons from a solute to water. In this work, we propose as an versatile alternative “Phase Sensitive WEX” (PS-WEX), which uses an additional RF-pulse and a fixed mixing-time delay. By exploiting the phase sensitivity of the PS-WEX pathway the dynamic range can be increased and the T1-dependence of the signal is completely reduced. This is demonstrated in simulations and phantom measurements. The fixed mixing-time reduces the influence of the T1-decay on the signal curve leading to improved fit quality.
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