7-T 1H MRS with adiabatic refocusing at short TE using radiofrequency focusing with a dual-channel volume transmit coil

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1038-1046

  Boer, V O ^a   van Lier, A L H M W ^a   Hoogduin, J M ^a   Wijnen, J P ^a   Luijten, P R ^a   Klomp, D W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

7 T; Adiabatic refocusing; Human brain; Localized by adiabatic selective refocusing (LASER); Multi transmit; Signal to noise ratio; Single voxel MRS

Indexed keywords

7 T; ADIABATIC REFOCUSING; HUMAN BRAIN; LOCALIZED BY ADIABATIC SELECTIVE REFOCUSING (LASER); MULTI-TRANSMIT; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SINGLE-VOXEL MRS;

BANDWIDTH; BRAIN; CHEMICAL SHIFT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; CREATINE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLYCEROPHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; INOSITOL; LACTIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTYLGLUTAMIC ACID; PHOSPHOETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; TAURINE;

ADIABATICITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METABOLOME; PROTONS; RADIO WAVES; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 80054063160     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1641     Document Type: Article

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