Translation of Carbon-13 EPI for hyperpolarized MR molecular imaging of prostate and brain cancer patients.

CONCLUSION: This study demonstrated the feasibility of symmetric EPI to acquire HP 13 C metabolite maps in a clinical setting. As an advance over prior single-slice dynamic or single time point volumetric spectroscopic imaging approaches, this metabolite-specific EPI acquisition provided robust whole-organ coverage for brain and prostate studies while retaining high SNR, spatial resolution, and dynamic temporal resolution.
PMID: 30375043 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine - October 30, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Gordon JW, Chen HY, Autry A, Park I, Van Criekinge M, Mammoli D, Milshteyn E, Bok R, Xu D, Li Y, Aggarwal R, Chang S, Slater JB, Ferrone M, Nelson S, Kurhanewicz J, Larson PEZ, Vigneron DB Tags: Magn Reson Med Source Type: research