Estimating NAA in cortical gray matter with applications for measuring changes due to aging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 372-377

  Lim, Kelvin O ^a,b   Spielman, Daniel M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

brain; gray matter; NAA; proton spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

GRAY MATTER; IMAGING PULSE; INVERSION RECOVERY; MR IMAGES; N-ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; PROTON SPECTRA; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0031033130     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910370313     Document Type: Article

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