Table 1 Relative ratios between the SNRs afforded by various 2H MRSI approaches for a water/glucose/lactate DMI phantom.

From: High-sensitivity deuterium metabolic MRI differentiates acute pancreatitis from pancreatic cancers in murine models

 

HDO

Glucose

Lactate

Uniform CSI-SSFP/uniform ME-SSFP

1.0 ± 0.2

0.9 ± 0.1

1.2 ± 0.1

Weighted ME-SSFP/uniform ME-SSFP

1.6 ± 0.3

1.6 ± 0.1

1.9 ± 0.1

Weighted CSI-SSFP/uniform ME-SSFP

2.4 ± 0.3

2.4 ± 0.2

3.0 ± 0.2

Weighted CSI-SSFP/uniform CSI-SSFP

2.4 ± 0.3

2.5 ± 0.3

2.6 ± 0.2

  1. Errors reflect the statistics arising from n = 6 repeated experiments.
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