Metabolic properties in stroked rats revealed by relaxation-enhanced magnetic resonance spectroscopy at ultrahigh fields

Noam Shemesh, Jens T. Rosenberg, Jean-Nicolas Dumez, Jose A. Muniz, Samuel C. Grant () and Lucio Frydman ()
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Noam Shemesh: Weizmann Institute of Science
Jens T. Rosenberg: National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, The Florida State University
Jean-Nicolas Dumez: Weizmann Institute of Science
Jose A. Muniz: National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, The Florida State University
Samuel C. Grant: National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, The Florida State University
Lucio Frydman: Weizmann Institute of Science

Nature Communications, 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) yields site-specific signatures that directly report metabolic concentrations, biochemistry and kinetics—provided spectral sensitivity and quality are sufficient. Here, an enabling relaxation-enhanced (RE) MRS approach is demonstrated that by combining highly selective spectral excitations with operation at very high magnetic fields, delivers spectra exhibiting signal-to-noise ratios >50:1 in under 6 s for ~5 × 5 × 5 (mm)3 voxels, with flat baselines and no interference from water. With this spectral quality, MRS was used to interrogate a number of metabolic properties in stroked rat models. Metabolic confinements imposed by randomly oriented micro-architectures were detected and found to change upon ischaemia; intensities of downfield resonances were found to be selectively altered in stroked hemispheres; and longitudinal relaxation time of lactic acid was found to increase by over 50% its control value as early as 3-h post ischaemia, paralleling the onset of cytotoxic oedema. These results demonstrate potential of 1H MRS at ultrahigh fields.

Date: 2014
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