Mohammed Elywa1, Samir Mulla-Osman1,
Martin Walter2, Kai Zhong1, Frank Godenschweger1,
Oleksandr Khorkhordin1, Jrn Kaufmann3, Oliver Speck4
1Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance,
Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany; 2Universittsklinik
fr Psychiatrie, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany; 3Department
of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany; 4Department
of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg,
Germany
The minimal voxel size that can be measured with high spectral quality is 1.7 mL and many metabolites can be reliably detected. The results provide a powerful non-invasive tool for routine proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the human brain at high magnetic field of 7T using a 24 channel volume head coil and a combination of RF-sequence (STEAM-VERSE), automatic 3D shim,and single volume spectroscopy localization technique.
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