2017 Imaging for Physicists Coursebook

Lipid suppression

• Lipids are found throughout body: • – Extracranial lipids • – Periprostatic lipids

• – Breast • – Axilla • – etc. •• Lipids can distort baseline of spectra so that metabolites cannot be detected •• Lipids resonate at 1.3 ppm •• Lipids can be suppressed using outer volume suppression techniques