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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 May 30.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2019 Oct 21;83(5):1688–1697. doi: 10.1002/mrm.28040

Table 1.

Comparison of CEST MRI of two pH compartments and their CNR determined from the raw MTRasym, interpolation-based correction of B0 inhomogeneity using Z-spectrum (MTRasym(intrpl)), and the fast regression correction algorithm of MTRasym without Z-spectrum ((MTRasym(fast)).

Raw MTRasym MTRasym(intrpl) MTRasym(fast)
CESTRint (%) 5.42 ± 0.81 5.49 ± 0.22 5.50 ± 0.26
CESTRext (%) 1.92 ± 1.12 2.48 ± 0.20 2.28 ± 0.26
CNR 3.59 14.45 12.56