Lactate, N-acetylaspartate, choline and creatine concentrations, and spin-spin relaxation in thalamic and occipito-parietal regions of developing human brain

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 878-886

  Cady, Ernest B ^a   Penrice, Juliet ^b   Amess, Philip N ^b   Lorek, Ann ^b   Wylezinska, Marzena ^c   Aldridge, Richard F ^c   Franconi, Florence ^a   Wyatt, John S ^b   Reynolds, E Osmund R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c 1St Floor Shropshire House ^*

Author keywords

lactate; metabolite quantification; metabolite relaxation; neonatal brain

Indexed keywords

ADULT BRAIN; GRAY MATTER; LACTATE; N-ACETYLASPARTATE; PEAK AREA RATIOS; POSTNATAL AGE; SPIN-SPIN RELAXATION; WHITE MATTER;

METABOLITES;

CHOLINE; CREATINE; LACTIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN WATER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INFANT; MYELINATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; THALAMUS;

EID: 0029962556     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910360610     Document Type: Article

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