Hua Jun, Jones Craig K, Blakeley Jaishri, Smith Seth A, van Zijl Peter C M, Zhou Jinyuan
Department of Radiology, Division of MRI Research, Neurosection, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205-2109, USA.
Magn Reson Med. 2007 Oct;58(4):786-93. doi: 10.1002/mrm.21387.
Magnetization transfer (MT) imaging provides a unique method of tissue characterization by capitalizing on the interaction between solid-like tissue components and bulk water. We used a continuous-wave (CW) MT pulse sequence with low irradiation power to study healthy human brains in vivo at 3 T and quantified the asymmetry of the MT effects with respect to the water proton frequency. This asymmetry was found to be a difference of approximately a few percent from the water signal intensity, depending on both the RF irradiation power and the frequency offset. The experimental results could be quantitatively described by a modified two-pool MT model extended with a shift contribution for the semisolid pool with respect to water. For white matter, this shift was fitted to be 2.34 +/- 0.17 ppm (N = 5) upfield from the water signal.
磁化传递(MT)成像利用类固体组织成分与大量水之间的相互作用,提供了一种独特的组织表征方法。我们使用具有低辐照功率的连续波(CW)MT脉冲序列,在3T磁场下对健康人体大脑进行活体研究,并量化了MT效应相对于水质子频率的不对称性。发现这种不对称性与水信号强度相差约百分之几,这取决于射频辐照功率和频率偏移。实验结果可以通过一个修正的双池MT模型进行定量描述,该模型扩展了半固体池相对于水的位移贡献。对于白质,该位移拟合为相对于水信号在其高场方向2.34±0.17 ppm(N = 5)处。