Magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the brain: A review of physical principles and technical methods

Reviews in the Neurosciences

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 609-632

  Buonocore, Michael H ^a   Maddock, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

biophysics; echo time; neurochemistry; NMR; proton; pulse sequences

Indexed keywords

WATER;

BRAIN NUCLEUS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAGNETIC FIELD; METABOLITE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELAXATION TIME; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGLE VOXEL SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; BRAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84948740544     PISSN: 03341763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/revneuro-2015-0010     Document Type: Review

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