Fast 3D echo planar SSFP-based 1H spectroscopic imaging: demonstration on the rat brain in vivo

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 549-555

  Althaus, Matthias ^a   Dreher, Wolfgang ^a   Geppert, Christian ^a   Leibfritz, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

1 H; Echo planar encoding; Rat brain; Spectroscopic imaging; Steady state free precession

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; IN VIVO STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STEADY STATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646841975     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2005.09.015     Document Type: Article

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