3T MEGA-PRESS study of N-acetyl aspartyl glutamate and N-acetyl aspartate in activated visual cortex.
Andrei V ManzhurtsevPetr MenschchikovAlexei YakovlevMaxim UblinskiyOlga BozhkoDmitrii KupriyanovTolib AkhadovSergei VarfolomeevNatalia SemenovaPublished in: Magma (New York, N.Y.) (2021)
The MEGA-PRESS pulse sequence together with the spectral preprocessing techniques allowed to demonstrate that the concentrations of NAAG and NAA in the visual cortex remain constant during continuous visual stimulation within the margin of error. An increase in the lactate signal intensity signifies the activation of the anaerobic glycolysis in activated visual cortex.