Table 1.
Metabolite tissue type | Brain lobes |
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Frontal right | Frontal left | Parietal right | Parietal left | |
NAA | ||||
Cortical gray | 10.7 ± 3.3 | 10.8 ± 3.3 | 12.6 ± 4.1 | 14.8 ± 4.0 |
White | 6.6 ± 2.0 | 7.0 ± 2.7 | 8.7 ± 3.4 | 8.9 ± 3.0 |
Cr | ||||
Cortical gray | 15.4 ± 3.7 | 14.7 ± 4.2 | 20.1 ± 4.5 | 20.1 ± 4.3 |
White | 8.2 ± 3.0 | 8.6 ± 2.7 | 11.2 ± 3.5 | 11.7 ± 3.7 |
Cho | ||||
Cortical gray | 19.7 ± 5.5 | 19.5 ± 4.0 | 31.7 ± 6.0 | 30.1 ± 6.1 |
White | 11.2 ± 3.6 | 11.7 ± 3.1 | 16.8 ± 5.8 | 19.2 ± 6.6 |
In percent of the metabolite mean values from all subjects.