Whole‐brain amide CEST imaging at 3T with a steady‐state radial MRI acquisition

Purpose To develop a steady‐state saturation with radial readout chemical exchange saturation transfer (starCEST) for acquiring CEST images at 3 Tesla (T). The polynomial Lorentzian line‐shape fitting approach was further developed for extracting amideCEST intensities at this field. Method StarCEST MRI using periodically rotated overlapping parallel lines with enhanced reconstruction‐based spatial sampling was implemented to acquire Z‐spectra...