CEST Applications
Kannie WY Chan1,2
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciecne, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
Synopsis
Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) MRI is a robust molecular imaging approach, which has shown many promising clinical applications. For example, to identify radiation necrosis and tumor recurrence. CEST enhances the detectability of many endogenous and exogenous molecules presence at low concentrations in vivo. This course will cover the principles of CEST and its applications mainly in the brain. This is to showcase CEST can detect specific endogenous or exogenous molecules in vivo to facilitate diagnosis and therapy, including brain tumor, cancer treatment and dementia.
Syllabus
Target audience: Students, researchers and physicians who are interested in using CEST in neuroimaging.
Objectives:
-To describe the basic principles of CEST and its analysis.
-To recognize the potential neuroimaging applications of CEST and its related molecular information.Acknowledgements
This study is supported by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council [9042620], City University of Hong Kong [9610362, 7005210, 6000660]References
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Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 28 (2020)