Single-voxel 1H PRESS at 4.0T: Precision and variability of measurements in anterior cingulate and hippocampus

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 484-491

  Venkatraman, Talaignair N ^a   Hamer, Robert M ^b,c   Perkins, Diana O ^b   Song, Allen W ^a   Lieberman, Jeffrey A ^b,d   Steen, R Grant ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate; Brain; High field; Hippocampus; Human; Point resolved spectroscopy; PRESS; Reproducibility; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; HUMAN ENGINEERING; METABOLITES; SPECTROSCOPY;

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; HIPPOCAMPUS; PRECISION MEASUREMENTS; SINGLE-VOXEL POINT RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPIC DATA; VARIABILITY MEASUREMENTS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

CHOLINE; CREATININE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PROTON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN SIZE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SAMPLE SIZE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VOLUNTEER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PROTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33745726467     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1055     Document Type: Article

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