High-field MRS of the human brain at short TE and TR

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1081-1088

  Boer, Vincent O ^a   Siero, Jeroen C W ^a   Hoogduin, Hans ^a   van Gorp, Jetse S ^a,b   Luijten, Peter R ^a   Klomp, Dennis W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

7T; FID; High resolution; Human brain; Proton MRS; Short echo time

Indexed keywords

7T; ECHO TIME; FID; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUMAN BRAIN; PROTON MRS;

CHEMICAL SHIFT; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BRAIN;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CHOLINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLYCEROPHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; INOSITOL; LIPID; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; PHOSPHOETHANOLAMINE; WATER;

ADIABATICITY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SLICE; BRAIN WATER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIPID BRAIN LEVEL; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLITE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

EID: 80054067075     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1660     Document Type: Article

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