A technique for detecting GABA in the human brain with PRESS localization and optimized refocusing spectral editing radiofrequency pulses

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 458-461

  Keltner, John R ^b,c   Wald, Lawrence L ^a   Christensen, James D ^a   Maas, Luis C ^b   Moore, Constance M ^a   Cohen, Bruce M ^a   Renshaw, Perry F ^a  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

brain; GABA; proton spectroscopy; spectral editing

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BRAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

DIFFERENCE SPECTROSCOPY; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE; GABA; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACIDS; MULTIPLE ACQUISITIONS; RADIO-FREQUENCY PULSE; SPATIAL LOCALIZATION; SPECTRAL EDITING;

PRESSES (MACHINE TOOLS);

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CHOLINE; CREATINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEURORADIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHANTOM; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIOFREQUENCY;

EID: 0029758291     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910360319     Document Type: Article

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