Qi Liu1, 2,
Ning Jin3, Zhaoyang Fan1, Yutaka Natsuaki4,
Wafa Tawackoli1, Dan Gazit1, Gadi Pelled1,
Debiao Li1, 5
1Biomedical
Imaging Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA,
United States; 2Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University,
Chicago, IL, United States; 3Siemens Medical Solutions, Columbus,
OH, United States; 4Siemens Healthcare, Los Angeles, CA, United
States; 5University of California, Los Angeles, los angeles, CA,
United States
A reduced-field-of-view (rFOV) TSE method is used to reliably measure IVD gagCEST signal in vivo by reducing bowel movement artifacts on a 3.0T clinical scanner. The proposed method is verified by a phantom study, and is compared with the conventional full-FOV CEST technique on nine volunteers.