Measurements of human cerebral GABA at 4.1 T using numerically optimized editing pulses

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 6-10

  Hetherington, Hoby P ^a,c   Newcomer, Bradley R ^a   Pan, Jullie W ^a,b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral; GABA; Homonuclear editing; Human

Indexed keywords

CEREBRAL; EQUIVALENT BANDWIDTH; GABA; HOMONUCLEAR; HUMAN; IN-VIVO; MEASUREMENTS OF;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CREATINE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OCCIPITAL LOBE;

EID: 0031985749     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910390103     Document Type: Article

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