Abstract #3239

Regional Age-Related Changes in the Monkey Brain Measured with Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Xiaoying Fan¹, Stephen Schettler¹, Sahil Jain¹, Donna Murray¹, Dae-Shik Kim¹, Douglas Rosene¹, Ron Killiany¹, Itamar Ronen¹

¹Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

Proton MRS together with tissue volumetric information from high resolution MRI images were employed to carefully assess regional concentrations of brain metabolites in a tightly controlled population of rhesus monkeys