. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Sep 1.

Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2020 Feb 21;84(3):1113–1125. doi: 10.1002/mrm.28204

Table 2:

Estimated signal levels of off-resonance metabolites in lactate acquisitions using the MS-3DSSFP sequence. Signal levels are estimated according to Eq. 1. A signal level of 1% means that in a MS-3DSSFP lactate acquisition, the ratio between the off-resonance metabolite and lactate is 1%.

Signal levels of off-resonance metabolites in MS-3DSSFP lactate acquisition
	Alanine (%)	Pyruvate (%)	Pyruvate hydrate (%)
Rat kidney	0.07±0.03	1.24±0.43	3.64±1.27
TRAMP tumor	0.02±0.02	0.09±0.06	0.26±0.17
Human kidney	0.04±0.01	0.54±0.44	1.59±1.3