Two-site reproducibility of cerebellar and brainstem neurochemical profiles with short-echo, single-voxel MRS at 3T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1718-1725

  Deelchand, Dinesh K ^a   Adanyeguh, Isaac M ^b   Emir, Uzay E ^a   Nguyen, Tra My ^b   Valabregue, Romain ^b,c   Henry, Pierre Gilles ^a   Mochel, Fanny ^b,c   Öz, Gülin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

3 Tesla; multi site; reproducibility; spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METABOLITES; SCANNING; SPECTROSCOPY;

3 TESLA; ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; CALIBRATION PROTOCOLS; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; INTER-INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; MULTI-SITE; NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITIES;

BRAIN;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CHOLINE; CREATINE; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLUTATHIONE; INOSITOL; LACTIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTYLGLUTAMIC ACID; TAURINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; METABOLITE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PONS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER; AGED; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ENERGY METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBELLAR VERMIS; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PONS; PROTON MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84928068639     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25295     Document Type: Article

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