Relationship between fractional anisotropy of cerebral white matter and metabolite concentrations measured using 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy in healthy adults

NeuroImage

Volumn 66, Issue , 2013, Pages 161-168

  Wijtenburg, S A ^a,g   McGuire, S A ^b   Rowland, L M ^a,g   Sherman, P M ^c   Lancaster, J L ^d   Tate, D F ^d   Hardies, L J ^d   Patel, B ^a,f,g   Glahn, D C ^e   Hong, L E ^a,g   Fox, P T ^d   Kochunov, P ^a,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Aerospace Medicine Consultation Division   (United States)

^c WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^g MARYLAND PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; N acetylaspartate; White matter

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE DERIVATIVE; CREATINE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; GLYCEROPHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; PROTON;

ACETYLCHOLINE BRAIN LEVEL; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONA RADIATA (BRAIN); CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; METABOLITE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN CORTEX; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PROTONS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84870033120     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.10.014     Document Type: Article

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