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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2006
Dirk Mayer, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Yakir Levin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Daniel Spielman, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ralph Eugene Hurd, Milpitas, CA (US);
Dirk Mayer, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Yakir Levin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Daniel Spielman, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ralph Eugene Hurd, Milpitas, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of imaging the individual components of systems with sparse spectra using magnetic resonance imaging including the steps of a) exciting nuclei of labeled components using a MRI pulse sequence, b) selecting a proper spectral window to avoid/minimize signal overlap of aliased frequency components. In step a) preferably a spiral chemical shift imaging (spCSI) sequence is employed. In a preferred embodiment, hyperpolarized nuclei ofC are used for labeling in a pyruvate substrate with metabolites of lacatate, alanine, and bicarbonate.