Table 1:

Key acquisition parameters for spectroscopic imaging of the prostate and metabolite-specific imaging of the brain at UCSF.

Acquisition Method	Spectroscopic Imaging	Metabolite-specific Imaging
UCSF Application area	Prostate	Brain
k-space sampling	Blipped EPSI	Symmetric EPI28
RF pulses	metabolite-specific, variable flip angles with multiband spectral-spatial pulses	metabolite-specific flip angles with singleband spectral-spatial pulses
Spatial Resolution (application-specific)	8 × 8 × 8 mm	15 × 15 × 15 mm
FOV (application-specific)	9.6 × 9.6 × 12.8 cm (12 × 12 × 16)	24 × 24 × 12 cm (16 × 16 × 8)
Temporal resolution	2 s	3 s
Reconstruction Methods	Compressed-sensing14,19,45,57,71	Reference scan corrections 28,36
		Refpeak coil combination49,51