Chemical exchange magnetic resonance imaging (CHEMI) |
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Authors: | E W McFarland L J Neuringer M J Kushmerick |
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Institution: | Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139. |
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Abstract: | Systems investigated with NMR spectroscopy are sometimes heterogeneous with respect to chemical composition, rates of chemical exchange, and other properties influencing magnetic resonance parameters. A method was developed to spatially encode reaction kinetic information and produce NMR images sensitive to chemical exchange. A modified spin-echo pulse sequence was used to allow chemical shift-selective imaging and chemical exchange encoding. 1H and 31P images with microscopic resolution were obtained which yielded chemical exchange as a function of position. Chemical exchange images of the base-catalyzed proton exchange of acetylacetone and of the enzyme-catalyzed 31P transfer between PCr and ATP were obtained at 8.4 T in phantoms at 360 and 146 MHz, respectively. These images demonstrate a means of investigating kinetic heterogeneity and compartmentalization of reactions that are important in the study of both living and non-living systems. |
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