Associations of age, gender and body mass with 1H MR-observed brain metabolites and tissue distributions

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 580-593

  Maudsley, A A ^a   Govind, V ^a   Arheart, K L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

1H MRSI; Body mass index; Brain; Magnetic field inhomogeneity

Indexed keywords

1H MRSI; BODY MASS; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN METABOLITES; BRAIN REGIONS; COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS; DATA SETS; GRAY MATTER; MAGNETIC FIELD INHOMOGENEITY; METABOLITE LEVEL; N-ACETYLASPARTATE; ORGANIC ORIGIN; RESIDUAL MAGNETIC FIELDS; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; SELECTION CRITERIA; SELECTION PARAMETERS; SPECTRAL LINE WIDTH; SPECTRAL QUALITY; STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES; STUDY GROUPS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTIONS; VOXEL-BASED ANALYSIS;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOMOLECULES; BRAIN; FACTOR ANALYSIS; LINEWIDTH; MAGNETIC FIELDS; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; TISSUE;

HEALTH;

CHOLINE; CREATINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLITE; NEUROIMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VOLUMETRY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ASPARTIC ACID; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN; CHOLINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84858867103     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1775     Document Type: Article

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