Direct in vivo measurement of human cerebral GABA concentration using MEGA-editing at 7 Tesla

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1009-1012

  Terpstra, Melissa ^a   Ugurbil, Kamil ^a   Gruetter, Rolf ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

GABA; Human; Macromolecule; MEGA; Spectral editing

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; GABA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATIONS; IN-VIVO MEASUREMENT; MEGA; SPECTRAL EDITING;

MACROMOLECULES;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CARBON 13;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID BRAIN LEVEL; ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MACROMOLECULE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0036233685     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.10146     Document Type: Article

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