Spectral simplification for resolved glutamate and glutamine measurement using a standard STEAM sequence with optimized timing parameters at 3, 4, 4.7, 7, and 9.4T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 236-244

  Yang, Shaolin ^a   Hu, Jiani ^b   Kou, Zhifeng ^b   Yang, Yihong ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

1H MR spectroscopy; Glutamate; Glutamine; STEAM

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SHIFT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METABOLITES; STEAM; TIMING CIRCUITS;

DENSITY MATRIX; GLUTAMATE; GLUTAMINE; MR SPECTROSCOPY; PROTON RESONANCES; SPECTRAL OVERLAP; SPECTRAL SIMPLIFICATION; TIMING PARAMETERS;

AMINO ACIDS;

GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; RAT; SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 38949103356     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21463     Document Type: Article

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