Russel H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA.
J Magn Reson Imaging. 2013 Apr;37(4):999-1003. doi: 10.1002/jmri.23817. Epub 2012 Sep 21.
To measure the in vivo longitudinal relaxation time T1 of GABA at 3 Tesla (T).
J-difference edited single-voxel MR spectroscopy was used to isolate γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) signals. An increased echo time (80 ms) acquisition was used, accommodating the longer, more selective editing pulses required for symmetric editing-based suppression of co-edited macromolecular signal. Acquiring edited GABA measurements at a range of relaxation times in 10 healthy participants, a saturation-recovery equation was used to model the integrated data.
The longitudinal relaxation time of GABA was measured as T(1,GABA) = 1.31 ± 0.16 s.
The method described has been successfully applied to measure the T1 of GABA in vivo at 3T.
在 3 特斯拉(T)下测量 GABA 的体内纵向弛豫时间 T1。
使用 J 差编辑单体素磁共振波谱技术来分离 γ-氨基丁酸(GABA)信号。采用增加的回波时间(80ms)采集,以适应基于对称编辑的共编辑大分子信号抑制所需的更长、更具选择性的编辑脉冲。在 10 名健康参与者中,在一系列弛豫时间下采集编辑 GABA 测量值,使用饱和恢复方程对整合数据进行建模。
测量 GABA 的纵向弛豫时间为 T(1,GABA)= 1.31±0.16s。
所描述的方法已成功应用于在 3T 下测量体内 GABA 的 T1。