Saadallah Ramadan1, Robert V. Mulkern2,
Carolyn E. Mountford1
1Radiology, Brigham and Women's
Hospital,
3
is an essential fatty acid (FA) that cannot be synthesized in the body and is
obtained by diet. In the human body, essential FA serve multiple functions
including neuroprotective functions, mood, behavior and prevents
inflammation. There are two types of s-3 FAs: eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA)
docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), both of
these molecular structures end with R-HC=CH-CH2-CH3. We investigated possibility of
detecting -3 in human bone marrow,
at 3T,
using localised one dimensional (1D) (PRESS) and localized
two-dimensional (2D) correlation spectroscopy (L-COSY).