Abstract:
:The aim of this work is to quantify individual and regional differences in the relative concentration of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in human brain with in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Spectral editing Mescher-Garwood point resolved spectroscopy (MEGA-PRESS) sequence and GABA analysis toolkit (Gannet) were used to detect and quantify GABA in anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and occipital cortex (OCC) of healthy volunteers. Residual bootstrap, a model-based statistical analysis technique, was applied to resample the fitting residuals of GABA from the Gaussian fitting model (referred to as GABA+ thereafter) in both individual and group data of ACC and OCC. The inter-subject coefficient of variation (CV) of GABA+ in OCC (20.66 %) and ACC (12.55 %) with residual bootstrap was lower than that of a standard Gaussian model analysis (21.58 % and 16.73 % for OCC and ACC, respectively). The intra-subject uncertainty and CV of OCC were lower than that of ACC in both analyses. The residual bootstrap analysis thus provides a more robust uncertainty estimation of individual and group GABA+ detection in different brain regions, which may be useful in our understanding of GABA biochemistry in brain and its use for the diagnosis of related neuropsychiatric diseases.
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Med Biol Eng Computjournal_title
Medical & biological engineering & computingauthors
Chen M,Liao C,Chen S,Ding Q,Zhu D,Liu H,Yan X,Zhong Jdoi
10.1007/s11517-016-1579-5subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-06-01 00:00:00pages
1051-1059issue
6eissn
0140-0118issn
1741-0444pii
10.1007/s11517-016-1579-5journal_volume
55pub_type
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