Feasibility of deuterium magnetic resonance spectroscopy of 3-O-Methylglucose at 7 Tesla

Hartmann B, Müller M, Seyler L, Bäuerle T, Wilferth T, Avdievitch N, Ruhm L, Henning A, Lesiv A, Ivashkin P, Uder M, Nagel AM (2021)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2021

Journal

PLoS ONE Public Library of Science

Book Volume: 16

Article Number: e0252935

Journal Issue: 6 June

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252935

Abstract

Deuterium Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (DMRS) is a non-invasive technique that allows the detection of deuterated compounds in vivo. DMRS has a large potential to analyze uptake, perfusion, washout or metabolism, since deuterium is a stable isotope and therefore does not decay during biologic processing of a deuterium labelled substance. Moreover, DMRS allows the distinction between different deuterated substances. In this work, we performed DMRS of deuterated 3-O-Methylglucose (OMG). OMG is a non-metabolizable glucose analog which is transported similar to D-glucose. DMRS of OMG was performed in phantom and in vivo measurements using a preclinical 7 Tesla MRI system. The chemical shift (3.51 ± 0.1 ppm) and relaxation times were determined. OMG was injected intravenously and spectra were acquired over a period of one hour to monitor the time evolution of the deuterium signal in tumor-bearing rats. The increase and washout of OMG could be observed. Three different exponential functions were compared in terms of how well they describe the OMG washout. A mono-exponential model with offset seems to describe the observed time course best with a time constant of 1910 ± 770 s and an offset of 2.5 ± 1.2 mmol/l (mean ± std, N = 3). Chemical shift imaging could be performed with a voxel size of 7.1 mm × 7.1 mm × 7.9 mm. The feasibility of DMRS with deuterium labelled OMG could be demonstrated. These data might serve as basis for future studies that aim to characterize glucose transport using DMRS.

Authors with CRIS profile

Max Müller Institute of Radiology Tobias Bäuerle Professur für Multimodale Bildgebung in der präklinischen Forschung Tobias Wilferth Institute of Radiology Michael Uder Lehrstuhl für Diagnostische Radiologie Armin Michael Nagel Professur für metabolische und funktionelle MR-Bildgebung

Involved external institutions

Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik / Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Hartmann, B., Müller, M., Seyler, L., Bäuerle, T., Wilferth, T., Avdievitch, N.,... Nagel, A.M. (2021). Feasibility of deuterium magnetic resonance spectroscopy of 3-O-Methylglucose at 7 Tesla. PLoS ONE, 16(6 June). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252935

MLA:

Hartmann, Benedikt, et al. "Feasibility of deuterium magnetic resonance spectroscopy of 3-O-Methylglucose at 7 Tesla." PLoS ONE 16.6 June (2021).

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