Measurement of N-acetylaspartylglutamate in the human frontal brain by 1H-MRS at 7 T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1247-1251

  Choi, Changho ^a   Ghose, Subroto ^a   Uh, Jinsoo ^a   Patel, Aditya ^a   Dimitrov, Ivan E ^a,b   Lu, Hanzhang ^a   Douglas, Deborah ^a   Ganji, Sandeep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

7 T; Difference editing; Gray matter; Human frontal brain; NAA; NAAG; White matter

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

CONCENTRATION RATIO; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIFFERENCE EDITING; GRAY MATTER; METABOLITE CONCENTRATIONS; NAAG; RADIO-FREQUENCY PULSE; WHITE MATTER;

METABOLITES;

N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTYLGLUTAMIC ACID;

ARTICLE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; PHANTOM; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 78349266439     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22536     Document Type: Article

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