Table 1:
Metabolite ratios of 3 grades of cerebral gliomas at both echo time (TE) sequences
| Short TE |
Intermediate TE |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cho/Cr | Cho/NAA | LL/Cr | mIns/Cr | Cho/Cr | Cho/NAA | LL/Cr | mIns/Cr | |
| Grade II (n = 7) | 1.52 ± 0.66 | 1.88 ± 0.96 | 1.07 ± 0.46 | 0.86 ± 0.19 | 1.92 ± 0.89 | 4.57 ± 4.35 | 0.30 ± 0.21 | 0.36 ± 0.11 |
| Grade III (n = 12) | 2.09 ± 0.82 | 2.51 ± 1.20 | 1.62 ± 0.80 | 1.23 ± 0.37 | 2.64 ± 1.39 | 8.14 ± 9.52 | 0.38 ± 0.23 | 0.49 ± 0.19 |
| Grade IV (n = 16) | 2.21 ± 0.79 | 1.66 ± 0.46 | 10.31 ± 10.22 | 1.15 ± 0.52 | 4.25 ± 3.83 | 6.31 ± 3.54 | 4.20 ± 4.95 | 0.74 ± 0.75 |
Note:—Cho indicates choline, Cr, creatine; NAA, N-acetylaspartate; LL, lipid and lactate; MI, myo-inositol.