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Ischemic stroke is known to cause a cellular energy imbalance when glucose supply is deprived, enhancing the role for energy production via \u03b2-oxidation where acylcarnitines are essential for the transportation of fatty acids into the mitochondria. Although traditional bulk analysis methods enable sensitive detection of acylcarnitines, they do not provide information on their abundances in various tissue regions. However, with quantitative mass spectrometry imaging the detected concentrations and spatial distributions of endogenous molecules can be readily obtained in an unbiased way. Here, we use pneumatically assisted nanospray desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry imaging (PA nano-DESI MSI) doped with internal standards to study the distributions of acylcarnitines in mouse brain affected by stroke. The internal standards enable quantitative imaging and annotation of endogenous acylcarnitines is achieved by studying fragmentation patterns. We report a significant accumulation of long-chain acylcarnitines due to ischemia in brain tissue of the middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) stroke model. Further, we estimate activities of carnitine transporting enzymes and demonstrate disruptions in the carnitine shuttle system that affects the \u03b2-oxidation in the mitochondria. 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