Table 2.
ICC’s and p-values for measurement of glutamate concentrations, using semi-localized by adiabatic selective refocusing (sLASER) and stimulated echo acquisition mode (STEAM) in a frontal and occipital VOI, for three different fitting procedures.
| sLASER |
STEAM |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontal |
Occipital |
Frontal |
Occipital |
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| Intraclass correlations (ICC) | p-Value | ICC | p-Value | ICC | p-Value | ICC | p-Value | |
| 8-metabolite fit | 0.77 | 0.04 | 0.28 | 0.35 | 0.17 | 0.41 | −3.62 | 0.97 |
| 12-metabolite fit | 0.65 | 0.09 | 0.61 | 0.14 | 0.58 | 0.14 | 0.42 | 0.24 |
| 16-metabolite fit | 0.80 | 0.03 | 0.34 | 0.31 | 0.56 | 0.15 | 0.54 | 0.17 |