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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 7.
Published in final edited form as: NMR Biomed. 2010 Apr;23(3):227–232. doi: 10.1002/nbm.1423

Table 1.

Average brain metabolite concentrations measured from short-echo-time STEAM spectra (n = 8), standard deviation (SD), and average Cramer–Rao lower bounds (CRLB)

Metabolite Concentration
(µmol/g)
SD
(µmol/g)
CRLB
(%)
Asp 2.0 0.4 11
Asc 1.1 0.3 11
GPC + PC 1.0 0.3 4
Cr 4.6 0.3 4
GABA 0.9 0.1 11
Glu 8.9 0.3 2
Gln 2.5 0.2 3
GSH 0.7 0.1 9
myo-Ins 6.3 0.9 3
scyllo-Ins 0.3 0.1 13
Lac 0.7 0.1 9
NAA 12.4 0.7 1
NAAG 1.2 0.2 6
PCr 3.9 0.5 4
PE 2.1 0.2 6
Tau 1.7 0.2 7
Cr + PCr 8.6 1.2 1