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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 17.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2018 Mar 30;101(5):1046–1056. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2018.03.028

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4.

Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) mechanism. (A) An endogenous molecular agent with an exchangeable proton can be detected with CEST by saturating the exchangeable proton (lightning bolt in B), thus allowing for exchange of the proton with water (C) and subsequently acquiring a CEST spectrum (D).