Mapping Brain Metabolites Using a Double Echo-Filter Metabolite Imaging (DEFMI) Technique

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 363-370

  Chen, Wei ^a   Hu, Jiani ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical shift imaging; Human brain; Metabolite imaging; NMR sensitivity; NMR spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; CHOLINE; CREATINE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; LACTIC ACID DERIVATIVE; LIPID; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; N-ACETYLASPARTATE;

ARTICLE; BODY WATER; BRAIN; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME;

ASPARTIC ACID; BODY WATER; BRAIN; CHOLINE; CREATINE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LACTATES; LIPIDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033210842     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmre.1999.1842     Document Type: Article

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