Imaging Methods of Tissue Physiology

在过去的十年中，MR已经成为最通用的成像技术之一，主要是因为它不仅能够可视化形态特征，而且还能够描绘生物物质和其他材料的功能状态。我们感兴趣的是通过利用这些代谢物的氢与水氢交换的倾向来描述代谢物的分布，这种倾向被称为化学交换饱和转移（CEST）效应。

MR has emerged as one of the most versatile imaging techniques over the past decade largely due to its ability to visualize not just morphological features but due to its promise for depicting the functional state of biological matter and other materials. We are interested in depicting metabolite distributions by exploiting the propensity of these metabolites' hydrogens to exchange with the water hydrogens referred to as the Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) effect.