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pH mapping in living tissues: an application of in vivo 31P NMR chemical shift imaging
S Morikawa1, T Inubushi, K Kito
1Molecular Neurobiology Research Center, Shiga University of Medical Science, Japan.
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
|February 1, 1993
Abstract:
Chemical shifts were extracted from in vivo 3-dimensional 31P NMR CSI data and pH images were constructed. The images could spatially resolve tissue pH ranging from 5.8 to 7.2 (with uncertainty of 0.11-0.17 pH unit) in an ischemia-reperfusion model of diabetic rat calf muscles.