Transverse relaxation time constants of the five major metabolites in human brain measured in vivo using LASER and PRESS at 3 T.

Dinesh K DeelchandEdward John AuerbachNaoharu KobayashiMałgorzata Marjańska

Published in: Magnetic resonance in medicine (2017)

Reliable T2 measurements were obtained with both sequences for the five major intracellular metabolites. The LASER sequence appears to be more efficient in suppressing the diffusion component for singlets (having nonexchangeable protons) compared to J-coupled metabolites. Magn Reson Med 79:1260-1265, 2018. © 2017 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

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