Absolute quantitation of brain metabolites with respect to heterogeneous tissue compositions in 1H-MR spectroscopic volumes

Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 321-333

  Gussew, Alexander ^a   Erdtel, Marko ^a,b   Hiepe, Patrick ^a   Rzanny, Reinhard ^a   Reichenbach, Jürgen R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1H MRS; Absolute quantitation; Brain; Partial volume effect correction; Tissue segmentation

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CREATINE; WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHOLINE; CREATINE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WATER;

EID: 84870868942     PISSN: 09685243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10334-012-0305-z     Document Type: Article

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