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Investigation of quantitative absolute concentrations of in vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy has been widely used in medical applications, rendering precise evaluation and diagnosis in clinics. As the development of various tools for automatic spectra analysis, providing objective quantification of metabolites, absolute concentrations has been playing an important role in clinical studies and applications as well.
In this study, we investigate the reliability and accuracy of absolute concentration quantified by LCModel. Ten healthy subjects were included. We compared the resultant concentrations calculated by internal water scaling and phantom calibration, both of which are provided by LCModel. Partial volume effect was also taken into account to improve the accuracy of absolute concentrations. Automatic segmentation was applied to volume of interest in order to separate gray matter and white matter, which will facilitate the further partial volume correction and thus better accuracy of absolute quantification.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0711106-165522
Date11 July 2006
CreatorsLiang, Deng-hao
ContributorsCheng-Wen Ko, Chung-nan Lee, Yi-Ru Lin, Yi-Ruei Liu
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0711106-165522
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