Alanine peak

Dr Dan J Bell ◉ and A.Prof Frank Gaillard ◉ ◈ et al.

Alanine is one of the compounds examined in MR spectroscopy. It resonates at 1.48 ppm chemical shift. It is elevated in meningiomas.

MR spectroscopy

MR spectroscopy (MRS)
- Hunter's angle
- lactate peak: resonates at 1.3 ppm
- lipids peak: resonate at 1.3 ppm
- alanine peak: resonates at 1.48 ppm
- N-acetylaspartate (NAA) peak: resonates at 2.0
- glutamine-glutamate peak: resonate at 2.2-2.4 ppm
- gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) peak: resonate at 2.2-2.4 ppm
- citrate peak: resonates at 2.6 ppm
- creatine peak: resonates at 3.0 ppm
- choline peak: resonates at 3.2 ppm
- myo-inositol peak: resonates at 3.5 ppm

Article information

rID: 27828

System: Central Nervous System

Tag: stub, refs

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