Spectroscopic imaging of human brain glutamate by water-suppressed J-refocused coherence transfer at 4.1 T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 7-12

  Pan, Jullie W ^a   Mason, Graeme F ^a   Pohost, Gerald M ^a   Hetherington, Hoby P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherence transfer; Glutamate; Multiple quantum; Spectroscopic imaging

Indexed keywords

BRAIN;

COHERENCE TRANSFER; COUPLED RESONANCE; GLUTAMATE; LOSS-OF-SIGNAL; MULTIPLE QUANTUM; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; WATER SUPPRESSION; WHITE MATTER;

QUANTUM THEORY;

ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; WATER;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; SPECTROSCOPY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0029890127     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910360103     Document Type: Article

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