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GABA measurement at 7T: short-TE or MEGA editing?
Song-I Lim1,2 and Lijing Xin1,2
1CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2Animal Imaging and Technology, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
The comparison of short-TE and MEGA editing methods and verification of reproducibility of GABA measurement in the motor cortex at 7T.
Figure 1 MR spectra acquired in the motor cortex using (A) MEGA-sSPECIAL and (B) sSPECIAL sequences. The edit-on, edit-off, and difference spectra are illustrated in (A). The absence of choline peak at 3.2 ppm implies that creatine is completely subtracted and two sub-spectra were well corrected and aligned to each other.
Table 1 Reproducibility test results for sSPECIAL and MEGA-sSPECIAl sequence.