Concentrations and magnetization transfer ratios of1 metabolites in gray and white matter

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1365-1370

  McLean, Mary A ^a,b   Barker, Gareth J ^c  

^a EPILEPSY SOCIETY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain; Glutamate; Macromolecules; Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging; Magnetization transfer

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOMOLECULES; BRAIN; CHROMIUM METALLOGRAPHY; MACROMOLECULES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MAGNETIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VOLUME FRACTION;

FRONTAL LOBES; GLUTAMATE; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER RATIO; N-ACETYL ASPARTATE; POINT RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPIES;

METABOLITES;

BRAIN PROTEIN; CHOLINE; CREATINE; GLUTAMINE; INOSITOL; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MACROMOLECULE; MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER RATIO; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METABOLITE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POINT RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 33845268276     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21070     Document Type: Article

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