Short echo time 1H MRSI of the human brain at 3T with adiabatic slice-selective refocusing pulses; reproducibility and variance in a dual center setting

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 61-70

  Wijnen, Jannie P ^a   Van Asten, Jack J A ^a   Klomp, Dennis W J ^a   Sjobakk, Torill E ^b   Gribbestad, Ingrid S ^b   Scheenen, Tom W J ^a   Heerschap, Arend ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

3T; Between subject variance; Brain; MRSI; Multicenter study; Reproducibility; Within subject variance

Indexed keywords

CREATINE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCEROPHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; GLYCINE; INOSITOL; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; TAURINE;

ADIABATIC SELECTIVE REFOCUSING; ADIABATICITY; ADULT; AMINO ACID BRAIN LEVEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN REGION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLITE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIMULATION; VARIANCE; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; PROTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74049143837     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21999     Document Type: Article

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