Ria Forner1, Kyung Min Nam1, Tijl van der Velden1, and Dennis Klomp1
1UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
1UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
3 receiver setups were successfully designed to
provide 31P MRSI of the human tongue in-vivo. The external array showed somewhat
less SNR than the loop coil revealing relatively high levels of
phophomonoesters when compared to typical muscle spectra.
FIGURE 4: 31P MRSI results obtained from the external receiver coil in two subjects - also here PME is more intense, particularly in the first subject.
FIGURE 3: 31P MRSI results obtained
from the saddle and loop coils for the same subject. The observed SNR is highest
with the loop coil, albeit that the signal may originate from the jaw muscle. For
the saddle coil, in contrast to typically reported 31P
spectra from muscle where PDE is higher than PME.