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Magnetization transfer in liposome and proteoliposome samples that mimic the protein and lipid composition of myelin

Yang, Weiqi; Lee, Jae-Seung; Leninger, Maureen; Windschuh, Johannes; Traaseth, Nathaniel J; Jerschow, Alexej
Although magnetization transfer (MT) has been widely used in brain MRI, for example in brain inflammation and multiple sclerosis, the detailed molecular origin of MT effects and the role that proteins play in MT remain unclear. In this work, a proteoliposome model system was used to mimic the myelin environment and to examine the roles of protein, cholesterol, brain cerebrosides, and sphingomyelin embedded in the liposome matrix. Exchange parameters were determined using a double-quantum filter experiment. The goal was to determine the relative contributions to exchange and MT of cerebrosides, sphingomyelin, cholesterol, and proteins in 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine bilayers. The main finding was that cerebrosides produced the strongest exchange effects, and that these were even more pronounced than those found for proteins. Sphingomyelin (which also has exchangeable groups at the head of the fatty acid chains, albeit closer to the lipid acyl chains) and cholesterol showed only minimal transfer. Overall, the extracted exchange rates appeared much smaller than commonly assumed for -OH and -NH groups.
PMID: 31058381
ISSN: 1099-1492
CID: 3900832

Assessment of frequency drift on CEST MRI and dynamic correction: application to gagCEST at 7 T

Windschuh, Johannes; Zaiss, Moritz; Ehses, Philipp; Lee, Jae-Seung; Jerschow, Alexej; Regatte, Ravinder R
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effect of a frequency drift of the static magnetic field on 3D CEST MRI based on glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) of articular cartilage at 7 T and to introduce a retrospective correction method that uses the phase images of the gradient-echo readout. METHODS:measurements were performed in a glucose model solution and in vivo in the knee joint of 3 healthy volunteers at 7 T. Phase images of the modified 3D rectangular spiral centric-reordered gradient-echo CEST sequence were used to quantify and compensate the apparent frequency drift in repeated gagCEST measurements. RESULTS:The frequency drift of the MRI scanner strongly influences the gagCEST signal in the articular cartilage of the human knee joint. The gagCEST signal in the articular cartilage is changed by 0.18%/Hz while an average drift of 0.7 ± 0.2 Hz/minute was observed. The proposed correction method can be applied retrospectively without the need of additional measurements and provides improved comparability and reproducibility for gagCEST studies. This correction method may also be of interest for other applications of CEST MRI. CONCLUSION/CONCLUSIONS:Prospective or retrospective correction of the frequency drift of the MRI scanner is essential for reproducible gagCEST measurements. The proposed retrospective correction method fulfills this requirement without the need of additional measurements.
PMID: 29851141
ISSN: 1522-2594
CID: 3135932

Quadrupolar jump-and-return pulse sequence for fluid-suppressed sodium MRI of the knee joint at 7T

Xia, Ding; Lee, Jae-Seung; Regatte, Ravinder R
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate the feasibility of the so-called quadrupolar jump-and-return (QJR) pulse sequence by assessing its performance on the contrast modification to knee cartilage and quality of fluid suppression in the knee joint in vivo at 7T. METHODS:The right knee joints of five healthy volunteers (3 males: mean age = 32.4 ± 1.3 years; 2 females: mean age = 27.9 ± 1.0 years; mean age = 30.6 ± 2.7 years) were scanned on a 7T scanner with variation of the delay in the QJR sequence from 1 ms to 5 ms. For one healthy volunteer, the QJR scan with the delay of 3 ms and the inversion-recovery (IR) scan were performed. Numerical simulations were conducted to evaluate the effects of B0 - and B1 -field inhomogeneities and residual quadrupolar couplings on fluid suppression and tissue contrast, respectively. RESULTS:The QJR sequence suppressed the fluid signal from the artery and produced the contrast of knee cartilage in vivo. Its performance was comparable to that of the conventional IR sequence. Numerical simulations suggested that the fluid suppression may not be affected much by field inhomogeneities but that a distribution of residual quadrupolar couplings and weak RF pulses may interfere with the clear interpretation of cartilage contrast. CONCLUSION/CONCLUSIONS:This preliminary work demonstrated that the QJR pulse sequence produces contrast for knee cartilage while suppressing the fluid signal from the artery. The knee cartilage contrast and quality of fluid suppression obtained from the QJR sequence were comparable to those of the IR sequence. Magn Reson Med, 2017. © 2017 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
PMCID:5910252
PMID: 29266468
ISSN: 1522-2594
CID: 2893972

Synthesized tissue-equivalent dielectric phantoms using salt and polyvinylpyrrolidone solutions

Ianniello, Carlotta; de Zwart, Jacco A; Duan, Qi; Deniz, Cem M; Alon, Leeor; Lee, Jae-Seung; Lattanzi, Riccardo; Brown, Ryan
PURPOSE: To explore the use of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) for simulated materials with tissue-equivalent dielectric properties. METHODS: PVP and salt were used to control, respectively, relative permittivity and electrical conductivity in a collection of 63 samples with a range of solute concentrations. Their dielectric properties were measured with a commercial probe and fitted to a 3D polynomial in order to establish an empirical recipe. The material's thermal properties and MR spectra were measured. RESULTS: The empirical polynomial recipe (available at https://www.amri.ninds.nih.gov/cgi-bin/phantomrecipe) provides the PVP and salt concentrations required for dielectric materials with permittivity and electrical conductivity values between approximately 45 and 78, and 0.1 to 2 siemens per meter, respectively, from 50 MHz to 4.5 GHz. The second- (solute concentrations) and seventh- (frequency) order polynomial recipe provided less than 2.5% relative error between the measured and target properties. PVP side peaks in the spectra were minor and unaffected by temperature changes. CONCLUSION: PVP-based phantoms are easy to prepare and nontoxic, and their semitransparency makes air bubbles easy to identify. The polymer can be used to create simulated material with a range of dielectric properties, negligible spectral side peaks, and long T2 relaxation time, which are favorable in many MR applications. Magn Reson Med, 2017. (c) 2017 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
PMCID:5876111
PMID: 29159985
ISSN: 1522-2594
CID: 2792382

Magnetization transfer in a partly deuterated lyotropic liquid crystal by single- and dual-frequency RF irradiations

Lee, Jae-Seung; Regatte, Ravinder R; Jerschow, Alexej
The mechanism of magnetization transfer (MT) in a lyotropic liquid crystal made of sodium dodecyl sulfate, decanol, and water molecules is investigated by using deuterated molecules and single- and dual-frequency RF irradiations. The resulting Z-spectra suggest that the decanol molecules are mainly responsible for the MT effects in this system, through proton exchange to water. This is further confirmed by monitoring the relaxation of dipolar order, which allows one to estimate the transfer rate of magnetization from decanol to water. The potential benefits of using dual-frequency RF irradiation for inducing MT effects are explored through numerical solutions to a MT model based on Provotorov's partial saturation theory.
PMCID:5537047
PMID: 28595121
ISSN: 1096-0856
CID: 2592192

Low-power slice selective imaging of broad signals

Yang, Weiqi; Lee, Jae-Seung; Kharkov, Boris; Ilott, Andrew J; Jerschow, Alexej
One of the major challenges in using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study immobile samples, such as solid materials or rigid tissues like bone or ligaments, is that the images appear dark due to these samples' short-lived signals. Although it is well known that narrowband signals can be excited in inhomogeneously-broadened lines, it is less well known that similar effects can be observed in dipolar-broadened systems. These long-lived signals have not been used much, mainly because their description frequently does not match intuition. While 3D imaging with these signals has previously been reported, here we focus on the demonstration of faster, 2D slice-selective imaging. The faster imaging provides more flexibility for visualizing these rigid objects. We also focus on the frequently-encountered regime wherein the maximum power achievable for rf pulses is significantly weaker than the linewidth. This regime is typically encountered in clinical MRI scans or large volume setups. When compared to UTE and conventional slice-selective spin echo methods, this technique provides better representations of the sample considered here (an eraser sample), and higher signal-to-noise ratios than spin-echo techniques in both the high and low power regimes.
PMCID:5071165
PMID: 27639897
ISSN: 1096-0856
CID: 2254722

Bloch Equations for Proton Exchange Reactions in an Aqueous Solution

Lee, Jae-Seung; Regatte, Ravinder R; Jerschow, Alexej
The extension of the Bloch equations for acid-base reactions in an aqueous solution is revisited. The acid-base reactions are second-order, and several reactions catalyzed by distinct catalysts may happen simultaneously. By constructing pseudo first-order reactions and assuming fast dissemination of protons from catalysts to solvent water, this extension converges to the well-known Bloch-McConnell equations for a two-site first-order exchange. Thus, explicit relationships between the parameters appearing in the reactions and the Bloch-McConnell equations are established. The dependencies of exchange rates and chemical exchange saturation transfer effects on pH were numerically and experimentally investigated for representative examples.
PMCID:5736163
PMID: 29270098
ISSN: 1546-6086
CID: 2911062

Sodium inversion recovery MRI on the knee joint at 7 T with an optimal control pulse

Lee, Jae-Seung; Xia, Ding; Madelin, Guillaume; Regatte, Ravinder R
In the field of sodium magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), inversion recovery (IR) is a convenient and popular method to select sodium in different environments. For the knee joint, IR has been used to suppress the signal from synovial fluids, which improves the correlation between the sodium signal and the concentration of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) in cartilage tissues. For the better inversion of the magnetization vector under the spatial variations of the B0 and B1 fields, the IR sequence usually employ adiabatic pulses as the inversion pulse. On the other hand, it has been shown that RF shapes robust against the variations of the B0 and B1 fields can be generated by numerical optimization based on optimal control theory. In this work, we compare the performance of fluid-suppressed sodium MRI on the knee joint in vivo, between one implemented with an adiabatic pulse in the IR sequence and the other with the adiabatic pulse replaced by an optimal-control shaped pulse. While the optimal-control pulse reduces the RF power deposited to the body by 58%, the quality of fluid suppression and the signal level of sodium within cartilage are similar between two implementations.
PMCID:4716894
PMID: 26705907
ISSN: 1096-0856
CID: 1884392

In vitro study of endogenous CEST agents at 3 T and 7 T

Lee, Jae-Seung; Xia, Ding; Jerschow, Alexej; Regatte, Ravinder R
Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) has been an intensive research area in MRI, providing contrast mechanisms for the amplified detection and monitoring of biomarkers and physiologically active molecules. In biological tissues and organs, many endogenous CEST agents coexist, and their CEST effects may overlap. The interpretation of such overlapped CEST effects can be addressed when the individual CEST effects originating from various metabolites are characterized. In this work, we present the in vitro measurements of the CEST effects from endogenous CEST agents that are commonly found in biological tissues and organs, at the external magnetic fields of 3 T and 7 T and under various pH conditions. Together with the proton NMR spectra measured at 11.7 T, these CEST effects have been evaluated in consideration of the chemical exchange rates, chemical shifts, and acidities of the labile protons. Amine protons of small metabolites might not be visible at 3 T, but some of them can be probed at 7 T, wherein their CEST effects may overlap with those from coexisting amide and hydroxyl protons
PMCID:4706513
PMID: 26153196
ISSN: 1555-4317
CID: 1663162

Concurrent saturation transfer contrast in in vivo brain by a uniform magnetization transfer MRI

Lee, Jae-Seung; Xia, Ding; Ge, Yulin; Jerschow, Alexej; Regatte, Ravinder R
The development of chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) and magnetization transfer (MT) contrast in MRI has enabled the enhanced detection of metabolites and biomarkers in vivo. In brain MRI, the separation between CEST and MT contrast has been particularly difficult due to overlaps in the frequency responses of the contrast mechanisms. We demonstrate here that MT and CEST contrast can be separated in the brain by the so-called uniform-MT (uMT) technique, thus opening the door to addressing long-standing ambiguities in this field. These methods could be useful for keeping track of important endogenous metabolites and for providing an improved understanding of neurological and neurodegenerative disorders. Examples are shown from white and gray matter regions in healthy volunteers and patients with multiple sclerosis, which demonstrated that the MT effects in the brain were asymmetric and that the uMT method could make them uniform.
PMCID:4059035
PMID: 24662575
ISSN: 1053-8119
CID: 1032292