Optimal voxel size for measuring global gray and white matter proton metabolite concentrations using chemical shift imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 10-18

  Hanson, Lars G ^a,b,d   Adalsteinsson, Elfar ^a   Pfefferbaum, Adolf ^c   Spielman, Daniel M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^d HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Gray and white matter spectroscopy; Optimal voxel size; Spectroscopic imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; CHEMICAL SHIFT;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHEMICAL SHIFT IMAGING; METABOLITE CONCENTRATIONS; PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; PROTON METABOLITES; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; VOXEL SIZE; WHITE MATTER;

METABOLITES;

PROTON;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METABOLITE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0033938797     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1522-2594(200007)44:1<10::AID-MRM3>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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