Synopsis

Keywords: Contrast mechanisms: Deuterium

Deuterium metabolic imaging is an emerging magnetic resonance technique for noninvasive imaging of glucose metabolism. Short relaxation times allows 3D imaging with reasonable spatial resolution in clinical feasible scan times using conventional phase encoding approaches. Over the last few years this method has been used extensively by the majority of scientific sites from ultra-high to clinical magnetic field strengths. Recently, novel approaches have been presented to simultaneously obtain complementary anatomical data, boost the achievable SNR and accelerate data acquisition to achieve higher spatial resolution without increasing scan times. This presentation summarises recent developments of advanced methods in deuterium metabolic imaging.