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Effect of J coupling on 1.3‐ppm lipid methylene signal acquired with localised proton MRS at 3 T
Authors:Dylan Y. Breitkreutz  B. Gino Fallone  Atiyah Yahya
Affiliation:1. Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada;2. Department of Medical Physics, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Abstract:The purpose of this work was to investigate the effect of J‐coupling interactions on the quantification and T2 determination of 1.3‐ppm lipid methylene protons at 3 T. The response of the 1.3‐ppm protons of hexanoic, heptanoic, octanoic, linoleic and oleic acid was measured as a function of point‐resolved spectroscopy (PRESS) and stimulated echo acquisition mode (STEAM) TE. In addition, a narrow‐bandwidth refocusing PRESS sequence designed to rewind J‐coupling evolution of the 1.3‐ppm protons was applied to the five fatty acids, to corn oil and to tibial bone marrow of six healthy volunteers. Peak areas were plotted as a function of TE, and data were fitted to monoexponentially decaying functions to determine Mo (the extrapolated area for TE = 0 ms) and T2 values. In phantoms, rewinding J‐coupling evolution resulted in 198%, 64%, 44%, 20% and 15% higher T2 values for heptanoic, octanoic, linoleic and oleic acid, and corn oil, respectively, compared with those obtained with standard PRESS. The narrow‐bandwidth PRESS sequence also resulted in significant changes in Mo, namely ?77%, ?22%, 28%, 23% and 28% for heptanoic, octanoic, linoleic and oleic acid, and corn oil, respectively. T2 values obtained with STEAM were closer to the values measured with narrow‐bandwidth PRESS. On average, in tibial bone marrow (six volunteers) rewinding J‐coupling evolution resulted in 21% ± 3% and 9 % ± 1% higher Mo and T2 values, respectively. This work demonstrates that the consequence of neglecting to consider scalar coupling effects on the quantification of 1.3‐ppm lipid methylene protons and their T2 values is not negligible. The linoleic and oleic acid T2 results indicate that T2 measures of lipids with standard MRS techniques are dependent on lipid composition. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords:MRS  lipid methylene protons  J coupling  PRESS  STEAM  transverse relaxation  fatty acids  bone marrow
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