Journal: Neuropsychopharmacology
Article Title: Increased Glutamate Levels in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Patients with Postpartum Depression
doi: 10.1038/npp.2012.101
Figure Lengend Snippet: Simulation used to optimize the stimulated echo acquisition mode (STEAM) settings. (a) Simulated metabolite magnetic resonance (MR) spectra for STEAM {TE,TM}={240, 27 ms} centered on the spectral region surrounding the Glu multiplet at ∼2.35 p.p.m. Metabolites at equimolar concentrations include: glutamate (Glu), glutamine (Gln), glutathione (GSH), homocarnosine (HC), γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA), and N-acetylaspartate (NAA). (b) Scaled metabolite spectra based on typical literature concentrations (relative to Glu at 100%), NAA (120%), GABA (15%), HC (3%), GSH (20%), and Gln (40%). No significant overlap with the target Glu signal arises from GSH or HC. Since the NAA-asparate signal amplitude is well characterized by its singlet, its overlap as a contaminating signal can be readily accounted for during LCModel analysis. Within the Glu target band, only Gln (Gln peak/Glu peak ∼8%) and GABA (∼7%) contamination will have a minor impact on quantification under these optimized stimulated echo acquisition mode (STEAM) acquisition timings.
Article Snippet: The in vivo data were analyzed using the LCModel (version 6.0-1) analysis program ( Provencher, 1993 ).
Techniques: Serial Time-encoded Amplified Microscopy