Table 3.

Comparison of total data acquisition time required for MST measurements between novel and conventional strategies

Strategy	M0 and Mss, TR × nt, s	T1,PCrapp, TR × nt × np, s	kf, min
Conventional	(12 + 20) × 12	14.6 × 12 × 6	23.9
Novel	(12 + 5.5) × 12	1.5 × 30 × 1	4.3

T_1,PCr^app was calculated from curve fitting of 6 time points (np = 6). In the conventional approach, 14.6 is the average TR for 6 points. All points were acquired with 12 averaged FIDs (nt = 12). In the novel approach, only TR = 1.5 s spectrum (nt = 30, Fig. 6C3) was used to calculate T_1,PCr^app, together with M_ss measurement (nt = 12, Fig. 5B2), according to Eq. 10.