Test-retest reproducibility of neurochemical profiles with short-echo, single-voxel MR spectroscopy at 3T and 7T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1083-1091

  Terpstra, Melissa ^a   Cheong, Ian ^a   Lyu, Tianmeng ^b   Deelchand, Dinesh K ^a   Emir, Uzay E ^a,d   Bednařík, Petr ^a,c   Eberly, Lynn E ^b   Öz, Gülin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3 Tesla; 7 Tesla; coefficient of variation; spectroscopy; test retest reproducibility

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPY;

3 TESLA; 7 TESLAS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIANCES; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN SIGNAL; PROTON MR SPECTROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITIES; VOLUMES OF INTERESTS;

METABOLITES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; METABOLITE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMI LASER SEQUENCE; SHORT ECHO SINGLE VOXEL PROTON MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TEST RETEST REPRODUCIBILITY; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 84987818139     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.26022     Document Type: Article

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