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  In vivo spectroscopic imaging of glutamate

Juchem, C., Merkle, H., Logothetis, N., & Pfeuffer, J. (2003). In vivo spectroscopic imaging of glutamate. Poster presented at 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2003), New Orleans, LA, USA.

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Juchem, C1, Author           
Merkle, H2, Author           
Logothetis, NK1, Author           
Pfeuffer, J1, Author           
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1Department Physiology of Cognitive Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_1497798              
2Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_1497794              

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 Abstract: Glutamate is the main excitatory neurotransmitter in the CNS and plays together with glutamine an important role in brain physiology. A quantitative spatially resolved analysis of glutamate separate from glutamine is therefore of particular neuroscientific interest. In most MR Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) studies insufficient sensitivity or long echo times do not permit the quantification of glutamate+glutamine. At lower field glutamate and glutamine can’t be separated due to limited spectral dispersion/resolution. In a pilot ¹H MRSI study it is demonstrated that maps of sufficiently high spectral and spatial resolution can be obtained to initially map areas of largely different glutamate concentration, in particular neural tissue vs. the ventricles in the rhesus monkey brain. For enhanced sensitivity and spectral separation the study was performed on a 7T high field scanner, which has been described previously (Pfeuffer, 2003, ISMRM Proc). Automated shimming with FASTMAP led to a water line width of 13Hz in a selected 28x28x4mm³ axial slice through the ventricles. For MRSI, a STEAM sequence was used with an 8x8 phase encoding scheme, leading to a nominal in-plane resolution of 3.5x3.5mm² (TE=TM=10ms, TR=4s, NA=35). Utilizing a surface coil setup (80mm diameter) for further enhanced sensitivity, it was possible to separate glutamate and glutamine and to measure a pure MRSI glutamate map in the macaque brain. Peak deconvolution and quantification was done voxelwise in frequency domain with LCModel. The results suggest that the obtainable resolution using implanted coils will permit differentiation of brain structures in the millimeter range (gray vs. white matter) and detection of concentration differences in the same structure (activated vs. non-activated cortex).

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 Dates: 2003-11
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Title: 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2003)
Place of Event: New Orleans, LA, USA
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