MRS	magnetic resonance spectroscopy
LC/MS	liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry
SPECIAL	short-TE spin-echo full-intensity acquired localized single voxel spectroscopy
Gln	glutamine
Glu	glutamate
PCC	posterior cingulate cortex
Cbll	cerebellum
Glx	sum of Glu and Gln
MSG	monosodium glutamate
BBB	blood brain barrier
VOI	volume of interest
OVS	outer volume suppression
VAPOR	variable-pulse power and optimized relaxation delays
%CoV	percent coefficient of variance
CSF	cerebrospinal fluid
WM	white matter
GM	grey matter
SNR	signal-to-noise ratio
NAA	N-acetylaspartate
MM	macromolecules
Ala	alanine
Asp	aspartate
PCh	phosphocholine
Cr	creatine
PCr	phosphocreatine
GABA	γ-aminobutyric acid
GSH	glutathione
Gly	glycine
mI	myo-inositol
Lac	lactate
Scyllo	scyllo-inositol
Tau	taurine
Glc	glucose
NAAG	N-acetylaspartylglutamate
GPC	glycerophosphocholine
PE	phosphorylethanolamine
Ser	serine
2Na·EDTA	disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate
HPLC-ESI-MS	high-performance liquid chromatography and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry
tCr	sum of Cr and PCr
tNAA	sum of NAA and NAAG
tCho	sum of GPC and PCh
CRLB	Cramér–Rao lower bound