Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
404-02-001 / 271-01-027 ISMRM Abstract

Neurochemical Indicators of Cognitive Performance assessed by 7T MR Spectroscopy in the Aging Adult Brain Connectome Cohort

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Eva-Maria Ratai 1, Malgorzata Marjanska2, Yue Hong1, Yiwen Zhang1, Melissa Terpstra2, Guglielmo Genovese2,3, Jeromy Thotland2, Michael Wolf2, Meher R Juttukonda1, Jan A Kufer1, Christa Michel4,5, Courtney Accorsi1, Adam Khay1, Essa Yacoub2, Petra Lenzini6, Lauren Antonucci1, Gayathri Vijayaraghavan1, Steven Arnold7, Robert C Welsh8, Jennifer Elam6, Dara Ghahremani,8, Carlos Cruchaga6, Matthew Glasser6, Michael Harms6, Pauline Maki9, Susan Bookheimer8, Helen Lavretsky8, Thomas Nichols10, Beau Ances6, David H Salat1
1Department of Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, United States of America
2Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Dept. of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States of America
3Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU, Norway
4Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States of America
5Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, United States of America
6Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, United States of America
7Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States of America
8UCLA Health, Los Angeles, United States of America
9University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, United States of America
10Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Presenting Author: Eva-Maria Ratai

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