Quantitative proton spectroscopic imaging of the neurochemical profile in rat brain with microliter resolution at ultra-short echo times

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 52-58

  Mlynárik, Vladimír ^a   Kohler, Ingrid ^a   Gambarota, Giulio ^a   Vaslin, Anne ^b   Clarke, Peter G H ^b   Gruetter, Rolf ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cerebral ischemia; Metabolite concentrations; Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging; Rat brain; Short echo time

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOMOLECULES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METABOLITES; RATS;

CEREBRAL ISCHEMIA; ECHO TIME; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; METABOLITE CONCENTRATIONS; RAT BRAIN;

BRAIN;

CHOLINE; GLUTAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CALCULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EXCITATION; EXCITOTOXICITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 37549048204     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21447     Document Type: Article

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