CHEMICAL-SHIFT-SELECTIVE PHASE-COMPENSATED ADIABATIC 2PI-REFOCUSING PULSE PAIR AND SPECTRAL EDITING METHODS FOR ULTRA-HIGH-FIELD MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY

A method for generating 2π-refocusing pulses for magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), and for performing spectral editing of MRS data using differential custom bandpass editing. Acquisition may be performed using echo-planar spectroscopic imaging (EPSI), for example. The 2π-refocusing is achieved using chemical-shift-selective adiabatic 2π-refocusing pulses, without spatial-selective (e.g. slice-selective) refocusing. The spectral editing method uses two data sets with different bandpass ('full' and 'partial') editing spectra, and takes the difference of the two edited spectra. The approach lends itself to 3D spectroscopy at B0 of 7 T or higher, and permits whole brain J-coupled metabolite editing (e.g. 2HG or GABA), with greatly reduced specific absorption rate, shorter repetition time, minimal chemical-shift displacement artefacts (CDSAs), robustness to B0-inhomogeneity and indifference to B1+-inhomogeneity compared with existing spatial-selective methods, such as MEGA.