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Bhattacharyya PK, Phillips MD, Stone LA, Bermel RA, Lowe MJ. Sensorimotor cortex gamma-aminobutyric acid concentration correlates with impaired performance in patients with MS. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2013; 34:1733-9. [PMID: 23493890 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a3483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Abnormalities in GABA concentration [GABA] have been associated with several neuropsychiatric disorders, and research has suggested that GABA may play a role in sensorimotor cortex function. We sought to determine whether identifying a change in [GABA] within the sensorimotor cortex of patients with MS has any effect on motor function and would provide information about the adaptive/compensatory mechanisms involved in the attempt to maintain motor function during disease progression. MATERIALS AND METHODS In 19 healthy controls and 30 patients with MS, we assessed task performance with the MS Functional Composite scale and its components (T25FW test, 9HPT, and PASAT). With in vivo MR spectroscopy, we measured [GABA] in the sensorimotor cortex and determined correlations between [GABA] and task performance. We also assessed the association between [GABA] and cortical activation volume after a bilateral finger-tapping task. RESULTS [GABA] was inversely correlated with 9HPT scores in patients with MS, indicating a worsening of performance with increased [GABA]. No significant correlation was observed between [GABA] and T25FW or PASAT scores. [GABA] was directly correlated with primary motor cortex activation volume after the finger-tapping task in patients with MS. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that cortical [GABA] may be a marker of function and reorganization/adaptation of cortical gray matter in MS.
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Schaller B, Xin L, Cudalbu C, Gruetter R. Quantification of the neurochemical profile using simulated macromolecule resonances at 3 T. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 2013; 26:593-599. [PMID: 23413241 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.2896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2012] [Revised: 10/30/2012] [Accepted: 11/01/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The broad resonances underlying the entire (1) H NMR spectrum of the brain, ascribed to macromolecules, can influence metabolite quantification. At the intermediate field strength of 3 T, distinct approaches for the determination of the macromolecule signal, previously used at either 1.5 or 7 T and higher, may become equivalent. The aim of this study was to evaluate, at 3 T for healthy subjects using LCModel, the impact on the metabolite quantification of two different macromolecule approaches: (i) experimentally measured macromolecules; and (ii) mathematically estimated macromolecules. Although small, but significant, differences in metabolite quantification (up to 23% for glutamate) were noted for some metabolites, 10 metabolites were quantified reproducibly with both approaches with a Cramer-Rao lower bound below 20%, and the neurochemical profiles were therefore similar. We conclude that the mathematical approximation can provide sufficiently accurate and reproducible estimation of the macromolecule contribution to the (1) H spectrum at 3 T.
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- Benoît Schaller
- Laboratory of Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Moheet A, Emir UE, Terpstra M, Kumar A, Eberly LE, Seaquist ER, Öz G. Initial experience with seven tesla magnetic resonance spectroscopy of hypothalamic GABA during hyperinsulinemic euglycemia and hypoglycemia in healthy humans. Magn Reson Med 2013; 71:12-8. [PMID: 23423963 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2012] [Revised: 01/07/2013] [Accepted: 01/08/2013] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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PURPOSE Hypothalamic GABA signaling has been shown to regulate the hormonal response to hypoglycemia in animals. The hypothalamus is a challenging brain region for magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) due to its small size and central location. To investigate the feasibility of measuring GABA in the hypothalamus in humans, ultra-high field MRS was used. METHODS GABA levels in the hypothalamus and occipital cortex (control region) were measured in healthy volunteers during euglycemia and hypoglycemia at 7 tesla using short-echo STEAM (TE = 8 ms, TR = 5 s). RESULTS Hypothalamic GABA levels were quantified with a mean within-session test-retest coefficient of variance of 9%. Relatively high GABA levels were observed in the hypothalamus compared with other brain regions. Hypothalamic GABA levels were 3.5 ± 0.3 µmol/g during euglycemia (glucose 89 ± 6 mg/dL) vs. 3.0 ± 0.4 µmol/g during hypoglycemia (glucose 61 ± 3 mg/dL) (P = 0.06, N = 7). In the occipital cortex, GABA levels remained constant at 1.4 ± 0.4 vs.1.4 ± 0.3 µmol/g (P = 0.3, N = 5) as glucose fell from 91 ± 4 to 61 ± 4 mg/dL. CONCLUSION GABA concentration can be quantified in the human hypothalamus and shows a trend toward decrease in response to an acute fall in blood glucose. These methods can be used to further investigate role of GABA signaling in the counterregulatory response to hypoglycemia in humans.
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- A Moheet
- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Mullins PG, McGonigle DJ, O'Gorman RL, Puts NAJ, Vidyasagar R, Evans CJ, Edden RAE. Current practice in the use of MEGA-PRESS spectroscopy for the detection of GABA. Neuroimage 2012; 86:43-52. [PMID: 23246994 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 389] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2012] [Revised: 09/11/2012] [Accepted: 12/03/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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There is increasing interest in the use of edited proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy for the detection of GABA in the human brain. At a recent meeting held at Cardiff University, a number of spectroscopy groups met to discuss the acquisition, analysis and interpretation of GABA-edited MR spectra. This paper aims to set out the issues discussed at this meeting, reporting areas of consensus around parameters and procedures in the field and highlighting those areas where differences remain. It is hoped that this paper can fulfill two needs, providing a summary of the current 'state-of-the-art' in the field of GABA-edited MRS at 3T using MEGA-PRESS and a basic guide to help researchers new to the field to avoid some of the pitfalls inherent in the acquisition and processing of edited MRS for GABA.
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- Paul G Mullins
- Bangor Imaging Unit, School of Psychology, Bangor University, Bangor, LL57 2AS, UK.
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- CUBRIC, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK; School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
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- University Children's Hospital, Steinwiesstrasse 75, 8032 Zürich, Switzerland; Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP), University of Zürich, Switzerland
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- Russell H Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA; F.M. Kirby Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, 707 North Broadway Street, Room G-25, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Biomedical Imaging Institute, School of Cancer and Enabling Sciences, Manchester University, Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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- CUBRIC, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
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- Russell H Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA; F.M. Kirby Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, 707 North Broadway Street, Room G-25, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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Intrapiromkul J, Zhu H, Cheng Y, Barker PB, Edden RAE. Determining the in vivo transverse relaxation time of GABA in the human brain at 7T. J Magn Reson Imaging 2012; 38:1224-9. [PMID: 23239232 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.23979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2012] [Accepted: 11/06/2012] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To measure in vivo transverse relaxation times (T2 ) of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) at 7T using the experimental spectral-editing method. MATERIALS AND METHODS Experiments were performed at 7T in a 10 mM GABA phantom to determine the intrinsic TE-dependence of the edited signal. Then the same method was applied with editing-based suppression of coedited macromolecular signals to five healthy volunteers to determine T2 of GABA in vivo. RESULTS From in vivo data acquired at multiple echo times, the in vivo GABA T2 relaxation time was estimated to be 63 ± 19 msec. CONCLUSION We present a measurement of the T2 of edited GABA signal at 7T by first using phantom measurements to determine the echo time-dependence of edited signal. The method is purely experimental and does not rely on prior knowledge of coupling constants or simulation of realistic experiments. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2013;38:1224-1229. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Jarunee Intrapiromkul
- Russell H Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Cai K, Nanga RPR, Lamprou L, Schinstine C, Elliott M, Hariharan H, Reddy R, Epperson CN. The impact of gabapentin administration on brain GABA and glutamate concentrations: a 7T ¹H-MRS study. Neuropsychopharmacology 2012; 37:2764-71. [PMID: 22871916 PMCID: PMC3499716 DOI: 10.1038/npp.2012.142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate are implicated in numerous neuropsychiatric and substance abuse conditions, but their spectral overlap with other resonances makes them a challenge to quantify in humans. Gabapentin, marketed for the treatment of seizures and neuropathic pain, has been shown to increase in vivo GABA concentration in the brain of both rodents and humans. Gabapentin effects on glutamate are not known. We conducted a gabapentin (900 mg) challenge in healthy human subjects to confirm and explore its effects on GABA and glutamate concentrations, respectively, and to test the ability of single voxel localized proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (¹H-MRS) to reliably measure GABA and glutamate in the visual cortex at the ultra-high magnetic field of 7 Tesla. Reproducibility of GABA and glutamate measurements was determined in a comparison group without drug twice within day and 2 weeks apart. Although GABA concentration changes were small both within day (average 5.6%) and between day (average 4.8%), gabapentin administration was associated with an average increase in GABA concentration of 55.7% (6.9-91.0%). Importantly, drug-induced change in GABA levels was inversely correlated to the individual's baseline GABA level (R²=0.72). Mean glutamate concentrations did not change significantly with or without drug administration. In conclusion, localized ¹H-MRS at 7 Tesla can be successfully applied to the measurement of GABA concentration and is sensitive to acute drug-induced changes in cortical GABA. Whether baseline GABA concentrations predict clinical efficacy of gabapentin is an area worthy of exploration.
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- Kejia Cai
- Department of Radiology, Center for Magnetic Resonance and Optical Imaging (CMROI), Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Center for Magnetic Resonance and Optical Imaging (CMROI), Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA,Department of Psychiatry, Penn Center for Women's Behavioral Wellness, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA,Department of Psychiatry, Penn Center for Women's Behavioral Wellness, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Center for Magnetic Resonance and Optical Imaging (CMROI), Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Center for Magnetic Resonance and Optical Imaging (CMROI), Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Center for Magnetic Resonance and Optical Imaging (CMROI), Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA,Department of Psychiatry, Penn Center for Women's Behavioral Wellness, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA,Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA,Penn Center for Women's Behavioral Wellness, 3535 Market Street, Room 3001, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA, Tel: +1 215 573-8871, Fax: +1 215 573 8881, E-mail:
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The neurochemical profile quantified by in vivo 1H NMR spectroscopy. Neuroimage 2012; 61:342-62. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.12.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2011] [Accepted: 12/15/2011] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Moser E, Stahlberg F, Ladd ME, Trattnig S. 7-T MR--from research to clinical applications? NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 2012; 25:695-716. [PMID: 22102481 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2010] [Revised: 08/25/2011] [Accepted: 08/31/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Over 20,000 MR systems are currently installed worldwide and, although the majority operate at magnetic fields of 1.5 T and below (i.e. about 70%), experience with 3-T (in high-field clinical diagnostic imaging and research) and 7-T (research only) human MR scanners points to a future in functional and metabolic MR diagnostics. Complementary to previous studies, this review attempts to provide an overview of ultrahigh-field MR research with special emphasis on emerging clinical applications at 7 T. We provide a short summary of the technical development and the current status of installed MR systems. The advantages and challenges of ultrahigh-field MRI and MRS are discussed with special emphasis on radiofrequency inhomogeneity, relaxation times, signal-to-noise improvements, susceptibility effects, chemical shifts, specific absorption rate and other safety issues. In terms of applications, we focus on the topics most likely to gain significantly from 7-T MR, i.e. brain imaging and spectroscopy and musculoskeletal imaging, but also body imaging, which is particularly challenging. Examples are given to demonstrate the advantages of susceptibility-weighted imaging, time-of-flight MR angiography, high-resolution functional MRI, (1)H and (31)P MRSI in the human brain, sodium and functional imaging of cartilage and the first results (and artefacts) using an eight-channel body array, suggesting future areas of research that should be intensified in order to fully explore the potential of 7-T MR systems for use in clinical diagnosis.
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- Ewald Moser
- Centre for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
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Elevated pontine and putamenal GABA levels in mild-moderate Parkinson disease detected by 7 tesla proton MRS. PLoS One 2012; 7:e30918. [PMID: 22295119 PMCID: PMC3266292 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2011] [Accepted: 12/24/2011] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Background Parkinson disease (PD) is characterized by the degeneration of nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons. However, postmortem evidence indicates that the pathology of lower brainstem regions, such as the pons and medulla, precedes nigral involvement. Consistently, pontomedullary damage was implicated by structural and PET imaging in early PD. Neurochemical correlates of this early pathological involvement in PD are unknown. Methodology/Principal Finding To map biochemical alterations in the brains of individuals with mild-moderate PD we quantified neurochemical profiles of the pons, putamen and substantia nigra by 7 tesla (T) proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Thirteen individuals with idiopathic PD (Hoehn & Yahr stage 2) and 12 age- and gender-matched healthy volunteers participated in the study. γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) concentrations in the pons and putamen were significantly higher in patients (N = 11, off medications) than controls (N = 11, p<0.001 for pons and p<0.05 for putamen). The GABA elevation was more pronounced in the pons (64%) than in the putamen (32%). No other neurochemical differences were observed between patients and controls. Conclusion/Significance The GABA elevation in the putamen is consistent with prior postmortem findings in patients with PD, as well as with in vivo observations in a rodent model of PD, while the GABA finding in the pons is novel. The more significant GABA elevation in the pons relative to the putamen is consistent with earlier pathological involvement of the lower brainstem. This study provides in vivo evidence for an alteration in the GABAergic tone in the lower brainstem and striatum in early-moderate PD, which may underlie disease pathogenesis and may provide a biomarker for disease staging.
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Puts NA, Edden RA. In vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy of GABA: a methodological review. PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY 2012; 60:29-41. [PMID: 22293397 PMCID: PMC3383792 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnmrs.2011.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 264] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2011] [Accepted: 05/30/2011] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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- Nicolaas A.J. Puts
- Schools of Bioscience and Psychology, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff, UK
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- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- FM Kirby Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Corresponding author. Address: Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, 600 N Wolfe St., Park 367C, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. Tel.: +1 410 614 3418. (R.A.E. Edden)
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Andreychenko A, Boer VO, Arteaga de Castro CS, Luijten PR, Klomp DWJ. Efficient spectral editing at 7 T: GABA detection with MEGA-sLASER. Magn Reson Med 2011; 68:1018-25. [PMID: 22213204 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2011] [Revised: 11/21/2011] [Accepted: 11/30/2011] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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At high field (7 T) spectral editing of γ-aminobutyric acid with MEGA-point-resolved spectroscopy is inefficient due to the large chemical shift displacement error. In this article, a new pulse sequence is designed which has minimal chemical shift displacement error to perform an efficient spectral editing of the γ-aminobutyric acid 3.0 ppm resonance at 7 T. The sequence consists of the conventional MEGA editing pulses and a semi-localized by adiabatic selective refocusing sequence. Phantom and in vivo measurements demonstrated an efficient detection of γ-aminobutyric acid. Using ECG triggering, excellent in vivo performance of the MEGA-semi-localized by adiabatic selective refocusing (MEGA-sLASER) provided well-resolved γ-aminobutyric acid signals in 27 mL volumes in the human brain at an echo time of 74 ms within a relatively short acquisition time (5 min). Furthermore, the high efficiency of the MEGA-sLASER was demonstrated by acquiring small volumes (8 mL) at an echo time of 74 ms, as well as long echo time measurements (222 ms in 27 mL volume).
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- Anna Andreychenko
- Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Near J, Simpson R, Cowen P, Jezzard P. Efficient γ-aminobutyric acid editing at 3T without macromolecule contamination: MEGA-SPECIAL. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 2011; 24:1277-1285. [PMID: 21387450 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2010] [Revised: 12/19/2010] [Accepted: 01/17/2011] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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One of the most commonly used methods for in vivo MRS detection of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the MEGA-point-resolved spectroscopy (MEGA-PRESS) technique. However, accurate quantification of GABA using MEGA-PRESS is complicated by spectral co-editing of macromolecular resonances. In this article, a new pulse sequence is presented which enables GABA editing at 3T with the removal of macromolecule contamination. This sequence combines the conventional MEGA editing scheme with the SPECIAL localisation technique, and is therefore named MEGA-SPECIAL. Simulations and phantom experiments indicate that this new approach provides improved GABA editing efficiency relative to MEGA-PRESS, and in vivo results demonstrate effective removal of macromolecule contamination. In a study of the occipital lobe of five healthy volunteers, the macromolecule-corrected GABA/creatine ratio was found to be 0.093 ± 0.007 (mean ± standard deviation), whereas prior to macromolecule correction, the ratio was found to be 0.173 ± 0.013.
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- Jamie Near
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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Martin-Vaquero P, da Costa RC, Echandi RL, Sammet CL, Knopp MV, Sammet S. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the canine brain at 3.0 T and 7.0 T. Res Vet Sci 2011; 93:427-9. [PMID: 21864873 DOI: 10.1016/j.rvsc.2011.07.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2011] [Accepted: 07/30/2011] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H MRS) to study the concentration of metabolites in the brain of dogs at 3.0 and 7.0 T. Four healthy male beagles were scanned using 3.0 T and 7.0 T human magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) units. The results obtained showed that all dogs had excellent quality spectra for a small (1 cm3) and large (8 cm3) voxel at 3.0 T, whereas only 2 dogs had high quality spectra at 7.0 T due to insufficient water suppression. 1H MRS at 3.0 T appears to be a reliable method to study metabolite concentrations in the canine brain. The development of more advanced water suppression techniques is necessary to improve the results at 7.0 T.
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- Paula Martin-Vaquero
- Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Ohio State University, 601 Vernon L. Tharp Street, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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Non-invasive evaluation of the GABAergic/glutamatergic system in autistic patients observed by MEGA-editing proton MR spectroscopy using a clinical 3 tesla instrument. J Autism Dev Disord 2011; 41:447-54. [PMID: 20652388 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-010-1065-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Amino acids related to neurotransmitters and the GABAergic/glutamatergic system were measured using a 3 T-MRI instrument in 12 patients with autism and 10 normal controls. All measurements were performed in the frontal lobe (FL) and lenticular nuclei (LN) using a conventional sequence for n-acetyl aspartate (NAA) and glutamate (Glu), and the MEGA-editing method for GABA. The GABA level and [GABA]/[NAA] ratio were significantly lower (p < 0.01) in the FL, but not the LN, in patients with autism compared to normal controls. The [GABA]/[Glu] ratio in the FL was also significantly lower (p < 0.05) in the patients than in the normal controls, thus suggesting a possible abnormality in the regulation between GABA and Glu.
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Harada M, Kubo H, Nose A, Nishitani H, Matsuda T. Measurement of variation in the human cerebral GABA level by in vivo MEGA-editing proton MR spectroscopy using a clinical 3 T instrument and its dependence on brain region and the female menstrual cycle. Hum Brain Mapp 2011; 32:828-33. [PMID: 20645307 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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The objectives of this study were to examine the reproducibility of the MEGA-editing J-difference technique and to determine the normal variation in the γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) level depending on the cerebral region and its fluctuation according to the menstrual cycle as baseline data for clinical application. The participants consisted of 15 normal adult volunteers (eight men and seven women), and all measurements were repeated twice in all participants. The MEGA-editing pulses were incorporated into point-resolved spectroscopy on a 3 T instrument to obtain the J-difference editing spectra from a voxel located in the lentiform nuclei (LN), left frontal lobe (FL), and anterior cingulate cortex (AC). The GABA levels in the gray matter (GM) were compensated by the fraction ratios of the gray and white matters and cerebrospinal fluid in the measurement volume. The extent of the variation in GABA was almost the same as that observed in the major metabolites, and its reproducibility was also maintained (intraclass correlation coefficient > 0.7). GABA level was highest in LN and lowest in AC. A difference in the GABA level between the follicular and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle was found in both LN and FL, but not in AC. This technique showed the differences in the GABA levels in the GM and the region-specific decrease in the GABA levels during the women's luteal phase.
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- Masafumi Harada
- Department of Medical Imaging, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, 3-18-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima, Japan.
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Emir UE, Raatz S, McPherson S, Hodges JS, Torkelson C, Tawfik P, White T, Terpstra M. Noninvasive quantification of ascorbate and glutathione concentration in the elderly human brain. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 2011; 24:888-94. [PMID: 21834011 PMCID: PMC3118919 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2010] [Revised: 10/21/2010] [Accepted: 10/22/2010] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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In this study, ascorbate (Asc) and glutathione (GSH) concentrations were quantified noninvasively using double-edited (1)H MRS at 4 T in the occipital cortex of healthy young [age (mean ± standard deviation) = 20.4 ± 1.4 years] and elderly (age = 76.6 ± 6.1 years) human subjects. Elderly subjects had a lower GSH concentration than younger subjects (p < 0.05). The Asc concentration was not significantly associated with age. Furthermore, the lactate (Lac) concentration was higher in elderly than young subjects. Lower GSH and higher Lac concentrations are indications of defective protection against oxidative damage and impaired mitochondrial respiration. The extent to which the observed concentration differences could be associated with physiological differences and methodological artifacts is discussed. In conclusion, GSH and Asc concentrations were compared noninvasively for the first time in young vs elderly subjects.
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- Uzay E Emir
- Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
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Luscher B, Fuchs T, Kilpatrick CL. GABAA receptor trafficking-mediated plasticity of inhibitory synapses. Neuron 2011; 70:385-409. [PMID: 21555068 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.03.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 316] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/30/2011] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Proper developmental, neural cell-type-specific, and activity-dependent regulation of GABAergic transmission is essential for virtually all aspects of CNS function. The number of GABA(A) receptors in the postsynaptic membrane directly controls the efficacy of GABAergic synaptic transmission. Thus, regulated trafficking of GABA(A) receptors is essential for understanding brain function in both health and disease. Here we summarize recent progress in the understanding of mechanisms that allow dynamic adaptation of cell surface expression and postsynaptic accumulation and function of GABA(A) receptors. This includes activity-dependent and cell-type-specific changes in subunit gene expression, assembly of subunits into receptors, as well as exocytosis, endocytic recycling, diffusion dynamics, and degradation of GABA(A) receptors. In particular, we focus on the roles of receptor-interacting proteins, scaffold proteins, synaptic adhesion proteins, and enzymes that regulate the trafficking and function of receptors and associated proteins. In addition, we review neuropeptide signaling pathways that affect neural excitability through changes in GABA(A)R trafficking.
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- Bernhard Luscher
- Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
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Reconstructing very short TE phase rotation spectral data collected with multichannel phased-array coils at 3 T. Magn Reson Imaging 2011; 29:937-42. [PMID: 21550744 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2011.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2010] [Revised: 03/15/2011] [Accepted: 03/19/2011] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Phased-array volume coils were used in conjunction with the phase rotation STEAM (PR-STEAM) spectroscopy technique to acquire very short TE data from the anterior cingulate gyrus at 3 T. A method for combining PR-STEAM data from multiple subcoils is presented. The data were acquired from seven healthy participants using PR-STEAM (repetition time/mixing time/echo time=3500/10/6.5 ms, 6 cm(3), NEX=128, spectral width=2000 Hz, 2048 complex points, Δφ(1)=135°, Δφ(2)=22.5°, Δφ(3)=112.5° and Δφ(ADC)=0°). In addition to the primary metabolites, LCModel fit results suggest that glutathione and glutamate can also be identified with Cramér-Rao lower bounds of 10% or less.
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Stephenson MC, Gunner F, Napolitano A, Greenhaff PL, MacDonald IA, Saeed N, Vennart W, Francis ST, Morris PG. Applications of multi-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy at 7T. World J Radiol 2011; 3:105-13. [PMID: 21532871 PMCID: PMC3084434 DOI: 10.4329/wjr.v3.i4.105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2010] [Revised: 04/02/2011] [Accepted: 04/09/2011] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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AIM: To discuss the advantages of ultra-high field (7T) for 1H and 13C magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) studies of metabolism.
METHODS: Measurements of brain metabolites were made at both 3 and 7T using 1H MRS. Measurements of glycogen and lipids in muscle were measured using 13C and 1H MRS respectively.
RESULTS: In the brain, increased signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and dispersion allows spectral separation of the amino-acids glutamate, glutamine and γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA), without the need for sophisticated editing sequences. Improved quantification of these metabolites is demonstrated at 7T relative to 3T. SNR was 36% higher, and measurement repeatability (% coefficients of variation) was 4%, 10% and 10% at 7T, vs 8%, 29% and 21% at 3T for glutamate, glutamine and GABA respectively. Measurements at 7T were used to compare metabolite levels in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and insula. Creatine and glutamate levels were found to be significantly higher in the insula compared to the ACC (P < 0.05). In muscle, the increased SNR and spectral resolution at 7T enables interleaved studies of glycogen (13C) and intra-myocellular lipid (IMCL) and extra-myocellular lipid (EMCL) (1H) following exercise and re-feeding. Glycogen levels were significantly decreased following exercise (-28% at 50% VO2 max; -58% at 75% VO2 max). Interestingly, levels of glycogen in the hamstrings followed those in the quadriceps, despite reduce exercise loading. No changes in IMCL and EMCL were found in the study.
CONCLUSION: The demonstrated improvements in brain and muscle MRS measurements at 7T will increase the potential for use in investigating human metabolism and changes due to pathologies.
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Emir UE, Deelchand D, Henry PG, Terpstra M. Noninvasive quantification of T2 and concentrations of ascorbate and glutathione in the human brain from the same double-edited spectra. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 2011; 24:263-9. [PMID: 20925125 PMCID: PMC3092362 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2009] [Revised: 04/26/2010] [Accepted: 05/31/2010] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The transverse relaxation times (T(2)) and concentrations of Ascorbate (Asc) and glutathione (GSH) were measured from a single dataset of double-edited spectra that were acquired at several TEs at 4 T in the human brain. Six TEs between 102 and 152 ms were utilized to calculate T(2) for the group of 12 subjects scanned five times each. Spectra measured at all six TEs were summed to quantify the concentration in each individual scan. LCModel fitting was optimized for the quantification of the Asc and GSH double-edited spectra. When the fitted baseline was constrained to be flat, T(2) was found to be 67 ms (95% confidence interval, 50-83 ms) for GSH and ≤115 ms for Asc using the sum of spectra measured over 60 scans. The Asc and GSH concentrations quantified in each of the 60 scans were 0.62 ± 0.08 and 0.81 ± 0.11 µmol/g [mean ± standard deviation (SD), n = 60], respectively, using 10 µmol/g N-acetylaspartate as an internal reference and assuming a constant influence of N-acetylaspartate and antioxidant T(2) relaxation in the reference solution and in vivo. The T(2) value of GSH was measured for the first time in the human brain. The data are consistent with short T(2) for both antioxidants. These T(2) values are essential for the absolute quantification of Asc and GSH concentrations measured at long TE, and provide a critical step towards addressing assumptions about T(2), and therefore towards the quantification of concentrations without the possibility of systematic bias.
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- Uzay E Emir
- Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
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Bhattacharyya PK, Phillips MD, Stone LA, Lowe MJ. In vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy measurement of gray-matter and white-matter gamma-aminobutyric acid concentration in sensorimotor cortex using a motion-controlled MEGA point-resolved spectroscopy sequence. Magn Reson Imaging 2011; 29:374-9. [PMID: 21232891 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2010] [Revised: 09/24/2010] [Accepted: 10/23/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain. Understanding the GABA concentration, in vivo, is important to understand normal brain function. Using MEGA point-resolved spectroscopy sequence with interleaved water scans to detect subject motion, GABA level of sensorimotor cortex was measured using a voxel identified from a functional magnetic resonance imaging scan. The GABA level in a 20×20×20-mm(3) voxel consisting of 37%±7% gray matter, 52%±12% white matter and 11%±8% cerebrospinal fluid in the sensorimotor region was measured to be 1.43±0.48 mM. In addition, using linear regression analysis, GABA concentrations within gray and white matter were calculated to be 2.87±0.61 and 0.33±0.11 mM, respectively.
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Zhu H, Edden RAE, Ouwerkerk R, Barker PB. High resolution spectroscopic imaging of GABA at 3 Tesla. Magn Reson Med 2010; 65:603-9. [PMID: 21337399 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2010] [Revised: 08/30/2010] [Accepted: 09/14/2010] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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A spin echo-based MRSI sequence was developed to acquire edited spectra of γ-aminobutyric acid in an entire slice. Water and lipid signals were suppressed by a dual-band presaturation sequence, which included integrated outer volume suppression pulses for additional lipid suppression. Experiments in three normal volunteers were performed at 3 T using a 32-channel head coil. High signal-to-noise ratio spectra and metabolic images of γ-aminobutyric acid were acquired from nominal 4.5 cm3 voxels (estimated actual voxel size 7.0 cm3) in a scan time of 17 min. The sequence is also expected to co-edit homocarnosine and macromolecules, giving a composite γ-aminobutyric acid+ resonance. The γ-aminobutyric acid+ to water ratio was measured using a companion water MRSI scan and was found to correlate linearly with the % gray matter (GM) of each voxel (γ-aminobutyric acid+/water=(1.5×GM+3.2)×10(-5), R=0.27), with higher γ-aminobutyric acid+ levels in gray matter compared with white. In conclusion, high signal-to-noise ratio γ-aminobutyric acid-MRSI is possible at 3 T within clinically feasible scan times.
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- He Zhu
- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
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Waddell KW, Zanjanipour P, Pradhan S, Xu L, Welch EB, Joers JM, Martin PR, Avison MJ, Gore JC. Anterior cingulate and cerebellar GABA and Glu correlations measured by ¹H J-difference spectroscopy. Magn Reson Imaging 2010; 29:19-24. [PMID: 20884148 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2010] [Accepted: 07/12/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate (Glu) levels, normalized to total creatine (tCr), were measured in the anterior cingulate and cerebellar vermis in healthy adults (n=19, age=24.6±6.4 years) using ¹H MRS at 3 T, and metabolite correlations across regions and subjects were determined. Mean anterior cingulate and cerebellar GABA/tCr ratios were 0.31 (0.08) and 0.23 (0.06), respectively, while corresponding Glu levels were 1.16 (0.10) and 0.70 (0.07), respectively. Anterior cingulate and cerebellar glutamate levels were correlated (r=0.6103, P=.0140), although it is noted that when adjusted for multiple comparisons, all correlations reported here cluster to a P value of .0583. It is unlikely that this correlation is driven by correlations in tCr, since interregional correlations were not observed for other metabolites referenced to tCr. Correlations were also observed among metabolites in both the anterior cingulate and cerebellar vermis. In the former, N-acetylasparate was linearly dependent on glutamate (r=0.6577, P=.0063) and, at or below this significance threshold, four metabolites were correlated in the cerebellar vermis (Ins/tCh: r=0.6261, P=.0109. NAA/tCh: r=0.6426, P=.0082. NAA/Glu: r=0.6412, P=.0085. tCh/Glu: r=0.6193, P=0.0122).
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- Kevin W Waddell
- Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-2310, USA.
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Edden RA, Harris AD, Murphy K, Evans CJ, Saxena N, Hall JE, Bailey DM, Wise RG. Edited MRS is sensitive to changes in lactate concentration during inspiratory hypoxia. J Magn Reson Imaging 2010; 32:320-5. [DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Terpstra M, Ugurbil K, Tkac I. Noninvasive quantification of human brain ascorbate concentration using 1H NMR spectroscopy at 7 T. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 2010; 23:227-32. [PMID: 19655342 PMCID: PMC3274383 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Ascorbate (Asc, vitamin C) was quantified in the human brain noninvasively using two different (1)H NMR spectroscopy methods: short-echo time STEAM and MEGA-PRESS homonuclear editing. Taking advantage of increased sensitivity and chemical shift dispersion at 7 T, Asc was quantified with increased reliability relative to our previous study accomplished at 4 T. Asc concentration quantified from short-echo time spectra measured from the occipital lobe of eight healthy subjects ([Asc] = 1.1 +/- 0.3 micromol/g, mean +/- SD) was in excellent agreement with Asc concentration quantified from the same volume of interest using homonuclear editing ([Asc] = 1.2 +/- 0.2 micromol/g). This agreement indicates that at 7 T, Asc can be reliably quantified in the human brain simultaneously with 15 other metabolites. Additional advantages of the short-echo time approach were: shorter measurement time than homonuclear editing and minimal effect of T(2) relaxation on Asc quantification. High magnetic field was also beneficial for Asc quantification with MEGA-PRESS because increased chemical shift dispersion enabled editing with full efficiency, which resulted in a supra-linear gain in signal-to-noise ratio relative to 4 T.
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- Melissa Terpstra
- Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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Evans CJ, McGonigle DJ, Edden RAE. Diurnal stability of gamma-aminobutyric acid concentration in visual and sensorimotor cortex. J Magn Reson Imaging 2010; 31:204-9. [PMID: 20027589 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To establish the diurnal stability of edited magnetic resonance spectroscopy measurements of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in visual and sensorimotor regions of the brain. MATERIALS AND METHODS GABA measurements were made in two regions of the brain (an occipital, "visual" region and a "sensorimotor" region centered on the precentral gyrus) using the MEGA-PRESS editing method, scanning eight healthy adults at five timepoints during a single day. GABA concentration was quantified from the ratio of the GABA integral to the unsuppressed water signal. RESULTS No significant effect of time on GABA concentration was seen (P = 0.35). GABA was shown to be significantly more concentrated in visual regions than in sensorimotor regions (1.10 i.u. and 1.03 i.u., respectively; P = 0.050). Coefficients of variability (CVs) across all subjects of 9.1% and 12% (visual and sensorimotor) were significantly higher than mean within-subjects CVs of 6.5% and 8.8. CONCLUSION This study demonstrates the excellent reproducibility of MEGA-PRESS detection of GABA, demonstrating that the method is sufficiently sensitive to detect inter-subject variability, and suggests that (within the sensitivity limits of current measurements) time of day can be ignored in the design of MRS studies of visual and sensorimotor regions.
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Mangia S, Giove F, Tkác I, Logothetis NK, Henry PG, Olman CA, Maraviglia B, Di Salle F, Uğurbil K. Metabolic and hemodynamic events after changes in neuronal activity: current hypotheses, theoretical predictions and in vivo NMR experimental findings. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2009; 29:441-63. [PMID: 19002199 PMCID: PMC2743443 DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2008.134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Unraveling the energy metabolism and the hemodynamic outcomes of excitatory and inhibitory neuronal activity is critical not only for our basic understanding of overall brain function, but also for the understanding of many brain disorders. Methodologies of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are powerful tools for the noninvasive investigation of brain metabolism and physiology. However, the temporal and spatial resolution of in vivo MRS and MRI is not suitable to provide direct evidence for hypotheses that involve metabolic compartmentalization between different cell types, or to untangle the complex neuronal microcircuitry, which results in changes of electrical activity. This review aims at describing how the current models of brain metabolism, mainly built on the basis of in vitro evidence, relate to experimental findings recently obtained in vivo by (1)H MRS, (13)C MRS, and MRI. The hypotheses related to the role of different metabolic substrates, the metabolic neuron-glia interactions, along with the available theoretical predictions of the energy budget of neurotransmission will be discussed. In addition, the cellular and network mechanisms that characterize different types of increased and suppressed neuronal activity will be considered within the sensitivity-constraints of MRS and MRI.
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- Silvia Mangia
- Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
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Gambarota G, Xin L, Perazzolo C, Kohler I, Mlynárik V, Gruetter R. In vivo 1H NMR measurement of glycine in rat brain at 9.4 T at short echo time. Magn Reson Med 2009; 60:727-31. [PMID: 18727088 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Glycine is an amino acid present in mammalian brain, where it acts as an inhibitory and excitatory neurotransmitter. The two detectable protons of glycine give rise to a singlet at 3.55 ppm that overlaps with the more intense myo-inositol resonances, and its measurement has traditionally required specific editing efforts. The aim of the current study was to reduce the signal intensity of myo-inositol relative to that of glycine by exploiting the fast signal J-evolution of the myo-inositol spin system when using a single spin-echo localization method we recently introduced. Glycine was detected at TE = 20 ms with an average Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) of 8.6% +/- 1.5% in rat brain (N = 5), at 9.4 T. The concentration of glycine was determined using LCModel analysis at 1.1 +/- 0.1 mM, in good agreement with biochemical measurements previously reported. We conclude that at high magnetic fields, glycine can be measured at a relatively short echo time (TE) without additional editing efforts.
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- Giulio Gambarota
- Laboratory of Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Bogner W, Gruber S, Doelken M, Stadlbauer A, Ganslandt O, Boettcher U, Trattnig S, Doerfler A, Stefan H, Hammen T. In vivo quantification of intracerebral GABA by single-voxel (1)H-MRS-How reproducible are the results? Eur J Radiol 2009; 73:526-31. [PMID: 19201120 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2009.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2008] [Revised: 12/23/2008] [Accepted: 01/08/2009] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the human brain. It plays a decisive role in a variety of nervous system disorders, such as anxiety disorders, epilepsy, schizophrenia, insomnia, and many others. The reproducibility of GABA quantification results obtained with a single-voxel spectroscopy J-difference editing sequence with Point Resolved Spectroscopy localization (MEGA-PRESS) was determined on a 3.0 Tesla MR scanner in healthy adults. Eleven volunteers were measured in long- and short-term intervals. Intra- and inter-subject reproducibility were evaluated. Internal referencing of GABA+ to total creatine (tCr) and water (H(2)O), as well as two different post-processing methods for the evaluation (signal integration and time-domain fitting) were compared. In all subjects lower coefficient of variation and therefore higher reproducibility can be observed for fitting compared to integration. The GABA+/tCr ratio performs better than the GABA+/H(2)O ratio or GABA+ without internal referencing for both fitting and integration (GABA+/tCr: 13.3% and 17.0%; GABA+/H(2)O: 15.0% and 17.8%; GABA+: 19.2% and 21.7%). Four-day measurements on three subjects showed higher intra- than inter-subject reproducibility (GABA+/tCr approximately 10-12%). With a coefficient of variation of about 13% for inter-subject and 10-12% for intra-subject variability of GABA+/tCr, this technique seems to be a precise tool that can detect GABA confidently. The results of this study show the reproducibility limitations of GABA quantification in vivo, which are necessary for further clinical studies.
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- W Bogner
- MR Centre of Excellence, Department of Radiology, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel, Vienna, Austria.
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Xin L, Gambarota G, Mlynárik V, Gruetter R. Proton T2 relaxation time of J-coupled cerebral metabolites in rat brain at 9.4 T. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 2008; 21:396-401. [PMID: 17907262 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Knowledge of proton T2 relaxation time of metabolites is essential for proper quantitation of metabolite concentrations in localized proton spectroscopy, especially at moderate to long TEs. Although the T2 relaxation time of singlets, such as that of creatine and N-acetylaspartate, has been characterized in several studies, similar information is lacking from coupled spin resonances of cerebral metabolites. In this study, the T2 relaxation time of coupled spin resonances and singlet resonances of cerebral metabolites was measured in rat brain in vivo at 9.4 T. Spectra were acquired at 11 TEs using the SPin ECho, full Intensity Acquired Localized (SPECIAL) spectroscopy method. Data analysis was performed in the frequency domain with the LCModel software using simulated TE-specific basis sets. The T2 relaxation times in compounds showing singlet resonances were 113 +/- 3 ms (total creatine), 178 +/- 29 ms (total choline) and 202 +/- 12 ms (N-acetylaspartate). The T2 values of J-coupled metabolites ranged from 89 +/- 8 ms (glutamate) to 148 +/- 14 ms (myo-inositol).
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- Lijing Xin
- Laboratory of Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Kaiser LG, Young K, Meyerhoff DJ, Mueller SG, Matson GB. A detailed analysis of localized J-difference GABA editing: theoretical and experimental study at 4 T. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 2008; 21:22-32. [PMID: 17377933 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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The problem of low signal-to-noise ratio for gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in vivo is exacerbated by inefficient detection schemes and non-optimal experimental parameters. To analyze the mechanisms for GABA signal loss of a MEGA-PRESS J-difference sequence at 4 T, numerical simulations were performed ranging from ideal to realistic experimental implementation, including volume selection and experimental radio frequency (RF) pulse shapes with a macromolecular minimization scheme. The simulations were found to be in good agreement with phantom and in vivo data from human brain. The overall GABA signal intensity for the simulations with realistic conditions for the MEGA-PRESS difference spectrum was calculated to be almost half of the signal simulated under ideal conditions (~43% signal loss). In contrast, creatine was reduced significantly less then GABA (~19% signal loss). The 'four-compartment' distribution due to J-coupling in the PRESS-based localization was one of the most significant sources of GABA signal loss, in addition to imperfect RF profiles for volume selection and editing. An alternative strategy that reduces signal loss due to the four-compartment distribution is suggested. In summary, a detailed analysis of J-difference editing is provided with estimates of the relative amounts of GABA signal losses due to various mechanisms. The numerical simulations presented in this study should facilitate both implementation of the more efficient acquisition and quantification process of J-coupled systems.
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- L G Kaiser
- Northern California Institute for Research and Education, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Choi C, Bhardwaj PP, Kalra S, Casault CA, Yasmin US, Allen PS, Coupland NJ. Measurement of GABA and contaminants in gray and white matter in human brain in vivo. Magn Reson Med 2007; 58:27-33. [PMID: 17659613 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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A preliminary study of discrimination between GABA and macromolecules (MMs) in human brain by proton double quantum filtering (DQF) at 3.0 T in vivo is presented. GABA-tuned and MM-tuned DQ filters were designed with dual-band 180 degrees radiofrequency (RF) pulses that were tuned for selective refocusing of GABA (3.0 and 1.9 ppm) and putative MM resonances (3.0 and 1.7 ppm), respectively. GABA and putative MM signals were extracted from a combined analysis of the filtered mixture signals and the calculated editing yields. Unexpectedly, the GABA and putative MM signals exhibited a similar doublet linewidth at the optimized TE = 82 ms. Furthermore, substantial MM-tuned DQF signal remained at TE = 148 ms, indicating the presence of a component other than MM. With water segmentation data, the GABA-tuned and MM-tuned DQF measures from the medial prefrontal and left frontal lobes were combined to give the concentrations of GABA and the additional component as 1.1 +/- 0.1 and 0.8 +/- 0.1 mM (mean +/- SD, N=3) for gray matter (GM) and 0.4 +/- 0.1 and 0.7+/-0.1 mM (N=3) for white matter (WM), respectively.
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- Changho Choi
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Neurology Division, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Edden RAE, Pomper MG, Barker PB. In vivo differentiation of N-acetyl aspartyl glutamate from N-acetyl aspartate at 3 Tesla. Magn Reson Med 2007; 57:977-82. [PMID: 17534922 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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A method is described that allows the in vivo differentiation of N-acetyl aspartate (NAA) from N-acetyl aspartyl glutamate (NAAG) by in vivo MR spectroscopy (MRS) at 3 Tesla (3T). The method, which is based on MEGA-point-resolved spectroscopy (PRESS) editing, selectively targets the aspartyl spin system of one species while deliberately removing the other species from the spectrum. This allows quantitative measurements of NAA and NAAG without the need for fitting of unresolved peaks. White matter concentrations of NAA (6.7 +/- 0.3 mM) and NAAG (2.2 +/- 0.3 mM) were measured in 10 healthy volunteers to demonstrate the method.
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- Richard A E Edden
- Russell H Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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Lymer K, Haga K, Marshall I, Sailasuta N, Wardlaw J. Reproducibility of GABA measurements using 2D J-resolved magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Magn Reson Imaging 2007; 25:634-40. [PMID: 17540274 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2006.10.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2006] [Accepted: 10/01/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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We determined the reproducibility of GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) measurements using 2D J-resolved magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) on a clinical 1.5-T MR imaging scanner. Two-dimensional J-resolved spectra were acquired in vitro across five GABA concentrations using a volume head coil and a 5-in. surface coil. Additional spectra using a sixth GABA phantom with a very low concentration and from a healthy volunteer were recorded in the 5-in. surface coil only. In each case, the 3.01-ppm GABA resonance was quantified; for comparison, the peak integrals of choline (3.2 ppm) and creatine (3.03 ppm) were recorded. At a physiological concentration (1.2 mM), in vitro GABA measurement was significantly more reproducible in the surface coil than in the volume coil (P=.005), with coefficients of variation (CVs) being less than 16% with the surface coil and up to 68% with the volume head coil. At the smallest concentration of in vivo GABA reported using other spectroscopy techniques (0.8 mM) and detected only using the surface coil, the CV for GABA was 23% and was less than 10% for choline and creatine, which compare favorably with results from published studies. In vivo, the CV for GABA measurement was 26%, suggesting that 2D J-resolved MRS would be suitable for detecting physiological changes in GABA, similar to those reported using other methods.
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- Katherine Lymer
- Division of Psychiatry, School of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh, UK.
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Waddell KW, Avison MJ, Joers JM, Gore JC. A practical guide to robust detection of GABA in human brain by J-difference spectroscopy at 3 T using a standard volume coil. Magn Reson Imaging 2007; 25:1032-8. [PMID: 17707165 PMCID: PMC2131736 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2006.11.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2006] [Revised: 11/29/2006] [Accepted: 11/30/2006] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the major inhibitory neurotransmitter in human brain and has been implicated in several neuropsychiatric disorders. In vivo human brain GABA concentrations are near the detection limit for magnetic resonance spectroscopy ( approximately 1 mM), and because of overlap with more abundant compounds, spectral editing is generally necessary to detect GABA. In previous reports, GABA spectra edited by J-difference spectroscopy vary considerably in appearance. We have evaluated the factors that affect GABA spectra and the conditions necessary for robust acquisition of J-difference spectra from arbitrary brain regions. In particular, we demonstrate that variations in spectral quality can be explained in part by the incoherent addition of transients that results from shot to shot frequency and phase variations. An automated time-domain spectral alignment strategy that enables reproducible acquisition of high-quality GABA spectra at 3 T with a standard 30-cm T/R volume coil is presented. Representative GABA spectra from human frontal lobe, an area where susceptibility-induced frequency and phase variations are especially troublesome, that demonstrate the robustness of the acquisition and data handling strategy used in this study are presented.
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- Kevin W Waddell
- Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-2675, USA.
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Kaiser LG, Young K, Matson GB. Elimination of spatial interference in PRESS-localized editing spectroscopy. Magn Reson Med 2007; 58:813-8. [PMID: 17899586 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Unambiguous detection of gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) in the human brain is hindered by low concentration and spectral overlap with other metabolites. The popular MEGA-PRESS (PRESS: point-resolved spectroscopic sequence) method allows spectral separation of GABA from other metabolites, but suffers from a significant signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) reduction due to the 4-compartment artifact. An alternative PRESS localization technique (PRESS+4) was investigated and compared to MEGA-PRESS using numerical simulations, phantom, and in vivo experiments. It was shown that while the MEGA-PRESS method suffers significant signal loss ( approximately equal 20% for the difference spectrum), GABA signal intensity in PRESS+4 is reduced by only 2% compared to the nonlocalized condition at 4T. The improved method retains important features of the popular MEGA-PRESS such as additional water suppression and macromolecular elimination as demonstrated in human brain experiments. This method is not limited to GABA J-difference editing, but can be applied in any PRESS-based experiments. It should prove particularly useful at higher field, where the 4-compartment artifact is especially detrimental.
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- Lana G Kaiser
- Northern California Institute for Research and Education, San Francisco, California, USA.
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Choi IY, Lee SP, Merkle H, Shen J. In vivo detection of gray and white matter differences in GABA concentration in the human brain. Neuroimage 2006; 33:85-93. [PMID: 16884929 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2006] [Revised: 05/26/2006] [Accepted: 06/18/2006] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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A novel selective multiple quantum filtering-based chemical shift imaging method was developed for acquiring GABA images in the human brain at 3 T. This method allows a concomitant acquisition of an interleaved total creatine image with the same spatial resolution. Using T(1)-based image segmentation and a nonlinear least square regression analysis of GABA-to-total creatine concentration ratios in frontal and parietal lobes of healthy adult volunteers as a function of the tissue gray matter fraction, the mean GABA concentration in gray and white matter was determined to be 1.30+/-0.36 micromol/g and 0.16+/-0.16 micromol/g (mean+/-SD, n=13), respectively. It is expected that this method will become a useful tool for studying GABAergic function in the human brain in vivo.
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- In-Young Choi
- The Nathan Kline Institute, Medical Physics, Orangeburg, NY 10962, USA.
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Criego AB, Tkac I, Kumar A, Thomas W, Gruetter R, Seaquist ER. Brain glucose concentrations in healthy humans subjected to recurrent hypoglycemia. J Neurosci Res 2006; 82:525-30. [PMID: 16235252 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.20654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Mechanisms responsible for hypoglycemia unawareness remain unknown. Previously, we found that patients with type 1 diabetes and hypoglycemia unawareness had increased brain glucose concentrations as measured by (1)H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) compared with controls measured under the same metabolic condition, suggesting that an alteration in brain glucose transport and/or metabolism may play a role in the pathogenesis of hypoglycemia unawareness. To determine whether the brain glucose concentration is altered in normal subjects subjected to recurrent hypoglycemia, we compared the brain glucose concentrations measured in healthy subjects after three episodes of hypoglycemia to blunt the counterregulatory response over 24 hr and compared this value with that measured at a time remote from the antecedent hypoglycemia protocol. Sixteen subjects (9 M/7 F, age 36 +/- 10 years, mean +/- SD) underwent three hypoglycemic clamps for 30 min at 8 AM (0 hr), 5 PM (9 hr), and 7 AM (24 hr). After the third hypoglycemic clamp, subjects underwent a hyperglycemic clamp during which brain glucose concentration was measured by MRS at 4 T. Brain glucose concentration after repeated hypoglycemia was not different from the brain glucose concentration measured in the same subjects during a control study (5.1 +/- 0.8 vs. 4.5 +/- 0.5 mumol/g wet weight, respectively, P = 0.05). These observations suggest that brain glucose transport or metabolism is not altered following short episodes of recurrent hypoglycemia in healthy human volunteers.
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- Amy B Criego
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, USA
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Oz G, Terpstra M, Tkác I, Aia P, Lowary J, Tuite PJ, Gruetter R. Proton MRS of the unilateral substantia nigra in the human brain at 4 tesla: Detection of high GABA concentrations. Magn Reson Med 2006; 55:296-301. [PMID: 16408282 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra (SN), the cause of which is unknown. Characterization of early SN pathology could prove beneficial in the treatment and diagnosis of PD. The present study shows that with the use of short-echo (5 ms) Stimulated-Echo Acquisition Mode (STEAM) spectroscopy and LCModel, a neurochemical profile consisting of 10 metabolites, including gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), glutamate (Glu), and glutathione (GSH), can be measured from the unilateral SN at 4 tesla. The neurochemical profile of the SN is unique and characterized by a fourfold higher GABA/Glu ratio compared to the cortex, in excellent agreement with established neurochemistry. The presence of elevated GABA levels in SN was validated with the use of editing, suggesting that partial volume effects were greatly reduced. These findings establish the feasibility of obtaining a neurochemical profile of the unilateral human SN by single-voxel spectroscopy in small volumes.
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- Gülin Oz
- Center for MR Research, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
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Terpstra M, Tkác I, Rao R, Gruetter R. Quantification of vitamin C in the rat brain in vivo using short echo-time1H MRS. Magn Reson Med 2006; 55:979-83. [PMID: 16586452 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Both ultrashort echo-time STEAM and MEGA-PRESS-edited spectroscopy were used to validate noninvasive quantification of vitamin C (ascorbate) in the developing rat brain, where changes in ascorbate concentration have been reported. Despite strong overlap with resonances from glutamine, glutamate, glutathione, and macromolecules, reliable quantification of ascorbate (Cramer-Rao lower bounds<0.2 micromol/g) by LCModel analysis of STEAM (TE=2 ms) spectra was possible at 9.4 T. Ascorbate concentrations quantified from the STEAM spectra were in very good agreement with concentrations calculated from fully resolved ascorbate resonances in MEGA-PRESS-edited spectra measured from identical volumes of interest. Ascorbate concentrations measured using STEAM decreased with increasing postnatal rat age, in agreement with published brain ascorbate concentrations measured in vitro using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).
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- Melissa Terpstra
- Department of Radiology, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
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Terpstra M, Marjanska M, Henry PG, Tkác I, Gruetter R. Detection of an antioxidant profile in the human brain in vivo via double editing with MEGA-PRESS. Magn Reson Med 2006; 56:1192-9. [PMID: 17089366 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Vitamin C (ascorbate) and glutathione (GSH) are the two most concentrated non-enzymatic antioxidants in the human brain. Double editing with (DEW) MEGA-PRESS at 4T was designed in this study to measure both antioxidants in the same amount of time previously required to measure one. In the occipital lobe of four human subjects, resolved ascorbate (Asc) and GSH resonances were detected repeatedly and simultaneously using DEW MEGA-PRESS. The Asc and GSH concentrations measured using LCModel analysis of DEW MEGA-PRESS spectra were 0.8 +/- 0.1 and 1.0 +/- 0.1 micromol/g (mean +/- SD), with average Cramer-Rao lower bounds (CRLB) of 10% and 7%, respectively. Aside from the effects of J-modulation at a common echo time (TE), double editing did not compromise sensitivity. To determine the extent to which the oxidized forms of Asc and GSH contribute to DEW MEGA-PRESS spectra in vivo, chemical shifts and coupling constants for dehydroascorbate (DHA) and oxidized glutathione (GSSG) were measured at physiologic pH and temperature. DHA does not contribute to the 3.73 ppm DEW MEGA-PRESS Asc resonance. GSSG contributions to the DEW MEGA-PRESS GSH resonance (3.0 ppm) are negligible under physiologic conditions, and would be evidenced by a distinct GSSG resonance (3.3 ppm) at exceptionally high concentrations.
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- Melissa Terpstra
- Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
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Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) has been used for more than two decades to interrogate metabolite distributions in living cells and tissues. Techniques have been developed that allow multiple spectra to be obtained simultaneously with individual volume elements as small as 1 uL of tissue (i.e., 1 x 1 x 1 mm(3)). The most common modern applications of in vivo MRS use endogenous signals from (1)H, (31)P, or (23)Na. Important contributions have also been made using exogenous compounds containing (19)F, (13)C, or (17)O. MRS has been used to investigate cardiac and skeletal muscle energetics, neurobiology, and cancer. This review focuses on the latter applications, with specific reference to the measurement of tissue choline, which has proven to be a tumor biomarker that is significantly affected by anticancer therapies.
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- Robert J Gillies
- Arizona Cancer Center, 1515 Campbell Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85724-5024, USA.
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Seaquist ER, Tkac I, Damberg G, Thomas W, Gruetter R. Brain glucose concentrations in poorly controlled diabetes mellitus as measured by high-field magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Metabolism 2005; 54:1008-13. [PMID: 16092049 DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2005.02.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Hyperglycemia and diabetes alter the function and metabolism of many tissues. The effect on the brain remains poorly defined, but some animal data suggest that chronic hyperglycemia reduces rates of brain glucose transport and/or metabolism. To address this question in human beings, we measured glucose in the occipital cortex of patients with poorly controlled diabetes and healthy volunteers at the same levels of plasma glucose using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Fourteen patients with poorly controlled diabetes (hemoglobin A 1c = 9.8% +/- 1.7%, mean +/- SD) and 14 healthy volunteers similar with respect to age, sex, and body mass index were studied at a plasma glucose of 300 mg/dL. Brain glucose concentrations of patients with poorly controlled diabetes were lower but not statistically different from those of control subjects (4.7 +/- 0.9 vs 5.3 +/- 1.1 micromol/g wet wt; P = .1). Our sample size gave 80% power to detect a difference as small as 1.1 micromol/g wet wt. We conclude that chronic hyperglycemia in diabetes does not alter brain glucose concentrations in human subjects.
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Choi IY, Lee SP, Shen J. Selective homonuclear Hartmann-Hahn transfer method for in vivo spectral editing in the human brain. Magn Reson Med 2005; 53:503-10. [PMID: 15723418 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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A novel selective homonuclear Hartmann-Hahn transfer method for in vivo spectral editing is proposed and applied to measurements of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in the human brain at 3 T. The proposed method utilizes a new concept for in vivo spectral editing, the spectral selectivity of which is not based on a conventional editing pulse but based on the stringent requirement of the doubly selective Hartmann-Hahn match. The sensitivity and spectral selectivity of GABA detection achieved by this doubly selective Hartmann-Hahn match scheme was superior to that achievable by conventional in vivo spectral editing techniques providing both sensitivity enhancement and excellent suppression of overlapping resonances in a single shot. Since double-quantum filtering gradients were not employed, singlets such as the NAA methyl group at 2.02 ppm and the creatine methylene group at 3.92 ppm were detected simultaneously. These singlets may serve as navigators for the spectral phase of GABA and for frequency shifts during measurements. The estimated concentration of GABA in the frontoparietal region of the human brain in vivo was 0.7 +/- 0.2 mumol/g (mean +/- SD, n = 12).
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- In-Young Choi
- Medical Physics, Nathan Kline Institute, 140 Old Orangeburg Road, Orangeburg, NY 10962, USA.
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Neuroimaging has important applications in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with seizures and epilepsy. Having replaced computed tomography (CT) in many situations, MRI is the preferred imaging technique for patients with epilepsy. Advances in radionuclide-based techniques such as single-photon emission CT/positron emission tomography and electromagnetic source imaging with magnetoencephalography are providing new insights into the pathophysiology of epilepsy. In addition, techniques such as magnetic resonance spectroscopy are beginning to impact treatment. In this review, I discuss how these techniques are used in clinical practice but more importantly, how imaging findings play an increasing role in neurotherapeutics.
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- Ruben I Kuzniecky
- New York University Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA
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Criego AB, Tkac I, Kumar A, Thomas W, Gruetter R, Seaquist ER. Brain glucose concentrations in patients with type 1 diabetes and hypoglycemia unawareness. J Neurosci Res 2005; 79:42-7. [PMID: 15578722 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.20296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Although it is well established that recurrent hypoglycemia leads to hypoglycemia unawareness, the mechanisms responsible for this are unknown. One hypothesis is that recurrent hypoglycemia alters brain glucose transport or metabolism. We measured steady-state brain glucose concentrations during a glucose clamp to determine whether subjects with type 1 diabetes and hypoglycemia unawareness may have altered cerebral glucose transport or metabolism after exposure to recurrent hypoglycemia. We compared 14 subjects with diabetes and hypoglycemia unawareness to 27 healthy control subjects. Brain glucose concentrations were measured under similar metabolic conditions using in vivo (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy at 4 Tesla during a hyperglycemic clamp (plasma glucose = 16.7 mmol/l) with somatostatin and insulin. Subjects with type 1 diabetes and hypoglycemia unawareness had significantly higher brain glucose concentrations compared to that in controls under the same conditions (5.5 +/- 0.3 vs. 4.7 +/- 0.1 micromol/g wet weight, P = 0.016). These data suggest that changes in brain glucose transport or metabolism may occur as a result of recurrent hypoglycemia.
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- Amy B Criego
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, 420 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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1H and 31P spectroscopy detects relevant metabolite changes in patients with TLE. Numerous studies confirm reduction in NAA and in the ratio of PCr/Pi. In his 1999 review, Kuzniecky concluded that proton MRS, using single-voxel or chemical shift imaging, lateralizes temporal lobe epilepsy in 65% to 96% of cases, with bilateral changes seen in 35% to 45% of cases, whereas phosphorus MRS shows a lateralizing PCr/Pi ratio in 65% to 75% of the TLE patients. There are indications that these changes are reversible with seizure treatment. Improvements in MRS technology, such as the ability to calculate absolute concentrations, to account for differences be-tween gray and white matter and to achieve better spectral resolution by use of a higher magnetic field strength, will now allow more extensive use of this technique for patients with epilepsy.
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- Ruben Kuzniecky
- NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, New York University School of Medicine, 403 East 34th Street, New York, NY 10016, USA.
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Tkáč I, Gruetter R. Methodology of H NMR Spectroscopy of the Human Brain at Very High Magnetic Fields. APPLIED MAGNETIC RESONANCE 2005; 29:139-157. [PMID: 20179773 PMCID: PMC2825674 DOI: 10.1007/bf03166960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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An ultrashort-echo-time stimulated echo-acquisition mode (STEAM) pulse sequence with interleaved outer volume suppression and VAPOR (variable power and optimized relaxation delays) water suppression was redesigned and optimized for human applications at 4 and 7 T, taking into account the specific requirements for spectroscopy at high magnetic fields and limitations of currently available hardware. In combination with automatic shimming, automated parameter adjustments and data processing, this method provided a user-friendly tool for routine (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy of the human brain at very high magnetic fields. Effects of first- and second-order shimming, single-scan averaging, frequency and phase corrections, and eddy currents were described. LCModel analysis of an in vivo (1)H NMR spectrum measured from the human brain at 7 T allowed reliable quantification of more than fifteen metabolites noninvasively, illustrating the potential of high-field NMR spectroscopy. Examples of spectroscopic studies performed at 4 and 7 T demonstrated the high reproducibility of acquired spectra quality.
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- I Tkáč
- Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Choi C, Coupland NJ, Hanstock CC, Ogilvie CJ, Higgins ACM, Gheorghiu D, Allen PS. Brain γ-aminobutyric acid measurement by proton double-quantum filtering with selectiveJ rewinding. Magn Reson Med 2005; 54:272-9. [PMID: 16032672 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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An optimized single-shot proton double-quantum (DQ) filter for the quantification of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) levels in human brain is reported. It is demonstrated that creation of DQ coherences following dual-resonance-selective refocusing gives a theoretical editing efficiency of 50% for the detection of the GABA resonance at 3.01 ppm. The sequence times are optimized with both numerical and experimental analyses of the editing performance, giving an experimental editing efficiency of 42%. It is acknowledged that homocarnosine is partially coedited, leading to a 20% contribution to the edited signal; however, macromolecule contamination is negligible in vivo under these experimental conditions. The GABA concentration in human prefrontal cortex is estimated to be 0.8 +/- 0.1 micromol/g (mean +/- SD, n = 6), with reference to the internal standard creatine at 9 micromol/g.
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- Changho Choi
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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