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31P localized spectroscopy of fetal brain in utero
1Neurochemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Martinez, California.
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
31-Phosphorus (31P) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy of fetal brain in utero was obtained entirely noninvasively in rat utilizing image selected in vivo spectroscopy (ISIS). The results were in excellent agreement with the data obtained using the surface coil method in the late stage fetus, namely, high phosphomonoester (PME), low phosphocreatine (PCr), and high intracellular pH. Localized spectroscopy provides unprecedented opportunities for the investigation of fetal brain metabolism in utero.