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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 30.
Published in final edited form as: NMR Biomed. 2014 Jan 3;27(3):240–252. doi: 10.1002/nbm.3054

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Scheme of data evaluation for spillover- and T1-compensated chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST). Only simple matrix operations are performed to obtain the apparent exchange-dependent relaxation (AREX) contrast. The step of defining a suitable reference value Zref is crucial. DC, duty cycle; MTRRex, spillover-corrected magnetization transfer ratio yielding Rex; QUESP, quantification of exchnage by saturation power.