Seminars in Perinatology
Volume 34, Issue 1 , Pages 20-27 , February 2010

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Imaging of the Newborn Brain—A Technical Review

  • Duan Xu, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Duan Xu, PhD, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Joint UCSF/UC Berkeley Graduate Group in Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco, 1700 4th St, Byers Hall, Suite 102, San Francisco, CA 94158
    • ,
  • Daniel Vigneron, PhD

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 This work is partially supported by NIH grants 5P50NS035902, 1R01NS046432, and 1R01EB009756.

PII: S0146-0005(09)00091-3

doi: 10.1053/j.semperi.2009.10.003

Seminars in Perinatology
Volume 34, Issue 1 , Pages 20-27 , February 2010

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