Dynamic nuclear polarization and dissolution of 13C-labeled metabolite allows dynamic imaging of metabolism in-vivo. However, the spatial and temporal resolutions of magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging are limited by the duration of free-induction decay acquisitions and the T1-based, non-recoverable polarization decay. This thesis describes the implementation of a spectral-spatial radiofrequency excitation pulse with a `flyback' echo-planar readout trajectory to dynamically image [1-13C]-pyruvate and [1-13C]-lactate in an interleaved manner. This technique excites a single resonance of either [1-13C]-pyruvate or [1-13C]-lactate and generates dynamic images with 5mm in-plane resolution. Metabolite dynamics extracted from the images and the corresponding non-localized spectroscopic data reveal similar kinetic rates upon fitting to a kinetic model. This demonstrates the feasibility of probing metabolism in heterogeneous tissues in-vivo with dynamic interleaved 13C MR imaging.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/27311 |
| Date | 24 May 2011 |
| Creators | Leung, Kevin Kai-Chi |
| Contributors | Cunningham, Charles H. |
| Source Sets | University of Toronto |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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