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CEST - Central European Summer Time (185 words) |
 | Note that CEST is a daylight saving time/summer time zone. |
 | An email sent from someone in the CEST time zone will have the time zone listed as "+0200" in the headers of the email. |
 | CEST is used during summer only in these European countries (CET during winter) |
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HYPER-CEST MRI breaks new ground in molecular imaging (1710 words) |
 | In the new Science paper, the Pines and Wemmer collaboration combined the xenon biosensors with CEST technology, which was developed as a contrast method for boosting the MRI contrast from protons. |
 | CEST is based on the exchange of protons that takes place between water molecules and other molecules in the body. |
 | While effective under certain conditions, CEST is limited by the fast relaxation time of protons, which necessitates the need for large magnetic fields to decrease relaxation effects and increase the difference between saturated and non-saturated MRI signals. |