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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 12.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2008 Mar;27(3):489–499. doi: 10.1002/jmri.21285

Table 4.

Qualitative Observations of Anterior-to-Posterior Trends in Metabolite Concentrations

Metabolite GM WM
mI – –
tCho ↓ ↓
tCr ↑ ↓
Glx – ↓
tNAA ↑ –

GM = gray matter; WM = white matter; ↑ = increasing from anterior to posterior; ↓ = decreasing from anterior to posterior; mI, myoinositol; tCho, total choline; tCr, total creatine; Glx, sum of glutamate plus glutamine; tNAA, total N-acetyl aspartate.