Jae Mo Park1,
2, Yi-Fen Yen1, Priti Balchandani1, 3,
Sonal Josan, 14, Ralph Hurd5, Dirk Mayer1,
4, Daniel Spielman1, 2
1Radiology,
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States; 2Electrical
Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States; 3Radiology,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, United States; 4Neuroscience
Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, United States; 5Applied
Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA, United States
We exploit the long T2 of [1-13C]-labeled pyruvate and metabolic products by developing a spectrally interleaved multi-echo sequence using spectral-spatial RF pulses to increase SNR of the labeled metabolites.