Factors affecting the quantification of short echo in-vivo1H MR spectra: Prior knowledge, peak elimination, and filtering

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 205-216

  Bartha, R ^a,c   Drost, D J ^a   Williamson, P C ^b  

^a LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

1H; Filtering; In vivo; Prior knowledge; Quantification; Short echo; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; CHOLINE; CREATINE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; INOSITOL; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTYLGLUTAMIC ACID; TAURINE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MACROMOLECULE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METABOLITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ANIMALS; FILTRATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

ILEX COOKII;

EID: 0032802545     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1492(199906)12:4<205::AID-NBM558>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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