Lipid and water suppression by selective 1H homonuclear polarization transfer

Abstract
A pulse sequence is presented which uses Polarization Transfer by a Selective Homo‐nuclear Technique (POTSHOT) to retain all resonances, in phase, from a selected coupled spin system while suppressing all other peaks, from both coupled and noncoupled spins. This technique, which is a selective form of Homonuclear Polarization Transfer (HPT), has been used in a 1.5‐T whole‐body system to generate edited 1H lactate spectra from lactate/oil phantoms and from excised dog hearts. © 1987 Academic Press, Inc.