Human brain-structure resolved T2 relaxation times of proton metabolites at 3 Tesla

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 983-989

  Zaaraoui, Wafaa ^a,b   Fleysher, Lazar ^a   Fleysher, Roman ^a   Liu, Songtao ^a   Soher, Brian J ^c   Gonen, Oded ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CNRS University Bordeaux Segalen   (France)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

3T; 1H MR spectroscopy; Gray and white matter; Human brain metabolites; T2 relaxation

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; BRAIN; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METABOLISM; RELAXATION TIME;

HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMAN BRAIN; MR SPECTROSCOPY; PROTON MR SPECTROSCOPY; T2 RELAXATION; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TRANSVERSE RELAXATION TIME; WHITE MATTER;

METABOLITES;

CHOLINE; CREATINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ACCURACY; ADULT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CALCULATION; ERROR; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; METABOLITE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLUNTEER; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 34250338906     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21250     Document Type: Article

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