Table 1.

Summary of the experimental conditions of the 22 human brain data sets. We report coil used, voxel size, flip angles of excitation for each metabolite, peak SNR (along all voxels and slices in the given data set), mean kinetic rate k_PL and its standard deviation (calculated with “model A” and the error criterion, described later on in the manuscript) and mean and standard deviation of the mean arrival time of pyruvate t_arr.

	Set	Coil	Voxel (cm3)	αpyr(°)	αlac(°)	αbic(°)	${\text{SNR}}_{pyr}^{max}$	${\text{SNR}}_{lac}^{max}$	${\text{SNR}}_{bic}^{max}$	$k_{PL}^{mean}(s^{-1})$	$t_{arr}^{mean}(s)$
Patient 1	1	8ch	2 × 2 × 2	33.4	33.4	33.4	393	53	15	0.021±0.008	6±2
	2	32ch	1.2 × 1.2 × 2	10	33.4	33.4	120	22	27	0.013±0.006	7±3
	3	8ch	2 × 2 × 2	33.4	33.4	33.4	437	79	13	0.05±0.02	7±4
	4	32ch	1.2 ×1.2 × 2	20	30	30	306	22	18	0.010±0.005	6± 3
Patient 2	5	8ch	1.2 ×1.2 × 2	33.4	33.4	33.4	306	20	n/a	0.024±0.009	11±4
	6	8ch	2 × 2 × 2	20	30	30	170	26	11	0.018±0.007	8±5
	7	32ch	2 × 2 × 2	20	30	30	504	30	15	0.016±0.007	7±2
	8	8ch	1.5 ×1.5 × 2	20	30	30	403	42	18	0.022±0.009	7±2
Patient 3	9	8ch	2 × 2 × 2	20	30	30	281	41	12	0.018±0.008	7±2
	10	32ch	1.2 ×1.2 × 2	20	30	30	576	21	29	0.009±0.004	9±3
Patient 4	11	8ch	2 × 2 × 2	20	30	30	225	43	13	0.03±0.01	10±2
	12	32ch	1 × 1 × 2	20	30	30	492	25	32	0.012±0.006	8±3
	13	32ch	1.5 × 1.5 × 1.5	20	30	30	181	16	12	0.022±0.008	7±3
	14	32ch	1.5 × 1.5 × 1.5	20	30	30	361	24	14	0.02±0.01	7±2
Patient 5	15	8ch	1.2 × 1.2 × 2	10	33.4	33.4	101	22	26	0.015±0.007	6±3
	16	32ch	1.5 × 1.5 × 2	20	30	30	392	35	15	0.015±0.008	7±2
	17	32ch	1.5 × 1.5 × 2	20	30	30	392	35	15	0.017±0.007	11±3
Patient 6	18	8ch	1.2 × 1.2 × 2	33.4	33.4	33.4	559	22	12	0.012±0.004	10±3
Patient 7	19	8ch	2 × 2 × 2	20	30		271	41	13	0.03±0.01	9±3
Patient 8	20	8ch	2 × 2 × 2	20	30		568	58	16	0.03±0.01	8±2
Patient 9	21	8ch	1.2 × 1.2 × 2	10	33.4		128	25	13	0.02±0.01	6±3
Patient 10	22	32ch	1.5 × 1.5 × 2	20	30	30	162	13	13	0.009±0.005	7±3