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Brain metabolite concentration ratios in vivo: multisite reproducibility by single-voxel 1H MR spectroscopy

2004; Elsevier BV; Volume: 22; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.mri.2003.12.001

1873-5894

Richard A. Komoroski, Kathryn J. Kotrla, Lisa Lemen, Diana M. Lindquist, Paola Monterroso Díaz, Anne L. Foundas,

NMR spectroscopy and applications

Ten normal subjects were scanned identically at three separate sites (Little Rock, Houston, and New Orleans) to evaluate the reproducibility of brain metabolite ratios in single-voxel 1H point-resolved spectroscopy sequence (PRESS) magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy in vivo. All scans were processed by a single individual at a single site. Coefficients of variation of the measured metabolite ratios generally were in the range found for previous single-voxel, single-site reproducibility studies. No differences were found among the sites for ratios of N-acetylaspartate to creatine (NAA/Cr) or choline to Cr (Cho/Cr) in left thalamus by multivariate ANOVA. Metabolite ratios of Cr or Cho relative to local brain H2O did not vary among the sites. However, by multivariate ANOVA, NAA/H2O differed between Little Rock and New Orleans, but not between those sites and Houston. Intraclass correlation coefficients suggested reasonable reproducibility between Little Rock and New Orleans, but not between those sites and Houston.