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. 2017 Dec 4;7:16898. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-16318-0

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Voxel positioning. An end systolic short-axis view (a) and a quasi-4-chamber view (b) of a volunteer’s heart are shown. The spectroscopy voxel was placed in the interventricular septum, with the effective acquisition volume indicated in orange. The red and white boxes indicate the excitation volume at 4.6 ppm (water frequency) and at 2.0 ppm, respectively, which differ due to chemical shift displacement. Inner-volume saturation (IVS) bands (blue) are used to saturate areas of the voxel that are subject to only partial excitation in the desired frequency range, due to chemical shift displacement, thus increasing localisation robustness.