Review and consensus recommendations on clinical APT‐weighted imaging approaches at 3T: application to brain tumors

J Zhou, M Zaiss, L Knutsson, PZ Sun… - Magnetic resonance …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Amide proton transfer‐weighted (APTw) MR imaging shows promise as a biomarker of brain
tumor status. Currently used APTw MRI pulse sequences and protocols vary substantially …

Acquisition sequences and reconstruction methods for fast chemical exchange saturation transfer imaging

Y Zhang, T Zu, R Liu, J Zhou - NMR in Biomedicine, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) imaging is an emerging molecular magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) technique that has been developed and employed in numerous …

Whole‐brain amide CEST imaging at 3T with a steady‐state radial MRI acquisition

R Sui, L Chen, Y Li, J Huang, KWY Chan… - Magnetic resonance …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop a steady‐state saturation with radial readout chemical exchange
saturation transfer (starCEST) for acquiring CEST images at 3 Tesla (T). The polynomial …

Relaxation‐compensated APT and rNOE CEST‐MRI of human brain tumors at 3 T

S Goerke, Y Soehngen, A Deshmane… - Magnetic resonance …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Relaxation‐compensated CEST‐MRI (ie, the inverse metrics magnetization transfer
ratio and apparent exchange‐dependent relaxation) has already been shown to provide …

Accelerating CEST imaging using a model‐based deep neural network with synthetic training data

J Xu, T Zu, YC Hsu, X Wang… - Magnetic Resonance …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop a model‐based deep neural network for high‐quality image
reconstruction of undersampled multi‐coil CEST data. Theory and Methods Inspired by the …

High‐sensitivity CEST mapping using a spatiotemporal correlation‐enhanced method

L Chen, S Cao, RC Koehler… - Magnetic resonance in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To obtain high‐sensitivity CEST maps by exploiting the spatiotemporal correlation
between CEST images. Methods A postprocessing method accomplished by multilinear …

Molecular imaging of brain tumors and drug delivery using CEST MRI: promises and challenges

J Huang, Z Chen, SW Park, JHC Lai, KWY Chan - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) detects
molecules in their natural forms in a sensitive and non-invasive manner. This makes it a …

Whole‐brain chemical exchange saturation transfer imaging with optimized turbo spin echo readout

Y Zhang, X Yong, R Liu, J Tang, H Jiang… - Magnetic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To achieve fast whole‐brain chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST)
imaging with negligible susceptibility artifact. Methods An optimized turbo spin echo readout …

Joint K‐space and Image‐space Parallel Imaging (KIPI) for accelerated chemical exchange saturation transfer acquisition

T Zu, Y Sun, D Wu, Y Zhang - Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop an auto‐calibrated technique by joint K‐space and Image‐space
Parallel Imaging (KIPI) for accelerated CEST acquisition. Theory and Methods The KIPI …

Differentiation of low-and high-grade pediatric gliomas with amide proton transfer imaging: added value beyond quantitative relaxation times

H Zhang, X Yong, X Ma, J Zhao, Z Shen, X Chen… - European …, 2021 - Springer
Objectives To evaluate whether amide proton transfer (APT) MRI can be used to
characterize gliomas in pediatric patients and whether it provides added value beyond …