Improved proton spectroscopic U-FLARE imaging for the detection of coupled resonances in the rat brain in vivo

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 611-621

  Dreher, Wolfgang ^a   Leibfritz, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Homonuclear decoupling; Proton spectroscopic imaging; Rat brain

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CREATINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; INOSITOL; LACTIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; TAURINE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033133571     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(98)00198-2     Document Type: Article

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