title: The uncommon longitudinal relaxation dispersion of human brain white matter.
abstract: Human brain white matter exhibits an uncommonly strong dispersion of 1/T1 at high fields. An additional relaxation pathway via the myelin lipids, which are not directly visible to medical NMR due to their fast T2 decay, is proposed. Relaxation dispersion data are successfully analyzed on the basis of this model.
authors.affiliation: University of Mons, Department of Organic Chemistry, Medical Faculty, Belgium.
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Fischer
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Van Haverbeke
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Schmitz-Feuerhake
authors.forename: R N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Muller
mesh_terms: D001834:Body Water; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D001923:Brain Chemistry; D006801:Humans; D008055:Lipids; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods; D009185:Myelin Proteins; D009186:Myelin Sheath
chemical_list: D008055:Lipids; D009185:Myelin Proteins