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ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2016

Reproducibility of Neurochemical Profile Quantification in Pregenual Cingulate, Anterior Midcingulate, and Bilateral Posterior Insular Subdivisions Measured at 3 Tesla.

Nuno M P de Matos, Lukas Meier, Michael Wyss, Dieter Meier, Andreas Gutzeit, Dominik A Ettlin, Mike Brügger

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Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Nuno M P de MatosCenter of Dental Medicine, University of ZurichZurich, Switzerland; Institute for Complementary and Integrative Medicine, University Hospital Zurich and University of ZurichZurich, Switzerland.
Lukas MeierSeminar for Statistics, ETH Zurich Zurich, Switzerland.
Michael WyssInstitute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich Zurich, Switzerland.
Dieter MeierInstitute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich Zurich, Switzerland.
Andreas GutzeitInstitute of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Hirslanden Hospital St. Anna Lucerne, Switzerland.
Dominik A EttlinCenter of Dental Medicine, University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland.
Mike BrüggerCenter of Dental Medicine, University of ZurichZurich, Switzerland; Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Zurich and ETH ZurichZurich, Switzerland.

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Abstract

The current report assessed measurement reproducibility of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy at 3 Tesla in the left and right posterior insular, pregenual anterior cingulate, and anterior midcingulate cortices. Ten healthy male volunteers aged 21-30 years were tested at four different days, of which nine were included in the data analysis. Intra- and inter-subject variability of myo-inositol, creatine, glutamate, total-choline, total-N-acetylaspartate, and combined glutamine-glutamate were calculated considering the influence of movement parameters, age, daytime of measurements, and tissue composition. Overall mean intra-/inter-subject variability for all neurochemicals combined revealed small mean coefficients of variation across the four regions: 5.3/9.05% in anterior midcingulate, 6.6/8.84% in pregenual anterior cingulate, 7.3/10.00% in left posterior and 8.2/10.55% in right posterior insula. Head movement, tissue composition and day time revealed no significant explanatory variance contribution suggesting a negligible influence on the data. A strong correlation between Cramer-Rao Lower Bounds (a measure of fitting errors) and the mean intra-subject coefficients of variation (r = 0.799, p < 0.001) outlined the importance of low fitting errors in order to obtain robust and finally meaningful measurements. The present findings confirm proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy as a reliable tool to measure brain neurochemistry in small subregions of the human brain.

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anterior midcingulatefunctional homogeneityposterior Insulapregenual cingulateproton magnetic resonance spectroscopyregion-specific neurochemistryreproducibilitystructural homogeneity

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