N-Acetylaspartate concentrations in the thalami of neuropathic pain patients and healthy comparison subjects measured with 1H-MRS

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 75-79

  Fukui, Sei ^a   Matsuno, Miyuki ^a   Inubushi, Toshiro ^a   Nosaka, Shuichi ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

N acetylaspartate; Neuropathic pain; Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; KETAMINE; LIDOCAINE; MEXILETINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID BRAIN LEVEL; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CELL; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ASPARTIC ACID; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLINE; CREATINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THALAMUS;

EID: 30344455314     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2005.10.021     Document Type: Article

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