Amide proton transfer (APT) and magnetization transfer (MT) in predicting short-term therapeutic outcome in nasopharyngeal carcinoma after chemoradiotherapy: a feasibility study of three-dimensional chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) MRI.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis prospective study was approved by the hospital ethics committee. The authors confirmed all data were collected after each participant signed the written informed consent. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations and strictly abide by the Declaration of Helsinki. Consent for publicationAll authors named in this manuscript gave their consent for this publication and take full responsibility for its content. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This study has received funding by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number: 82071895 and grant number: 82271984)."