The MR SCIENCE lab has published the first in vivo quantification of transverse relaxation rate T2 for edited glutathione at 7 Tesla. Performed in the human occipital cortex, their method used can be generally applied to calculate the T2 of any measurable metabolite, at great benefit to the investigation of those that exhibit J-evolution from strong coupling. Second-year Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. student Ms. Kelley Swanberg has first-authored the publication, which is currently in press at the Journal of Magnetic Resonance:
Kelley M. Swanberg, Hetty Prinsen, Daniel Coman, Robin A. de Graaf, Christoph Juchem. (2018). Quantification of glutathione transverse relaxation time T2 using echo time extension with variable refocusing selectivity and symmetry in the human brain at 7 Tesla. Journal of Magnetic Resonance. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmr.2018.02.017.
