Glutamate concentrations in human brain using single voxel proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy at 3 Tesla

NeuroImage

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1762-1771

  Schubert, Florian ^a   Gallinat, Jürgen ^b   Seifert, Frank ^a   Rinneberg, Herbert ^a  

^a Div Med Phys Metrological I   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glutamate concentrations; Hippocampus; Voxel

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FILTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLITE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ASPARTIC ACID; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GYRUS CINGULI; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS;

EID: 1842504496     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.11.014     Document Type: Article

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