Changes in brain metabolites and resting-state connectivity in collegiate basketball players as a function of play time.

Background And Purpose: Magnetic resonance (MR) biomarkers are emerging for sports-related traumatic brain injury (TBI), but the effect of play time has not been characterized. Our goal was to characterize brain and inflammatory marker changes as a function of play time.

Methods: Nine male players (21±2 years old) from a single collegiate basketball team were included.

Optimized truncation to integrate multi-channel MRS data using rank-R singular value decomposition.

Multi-channel phased receive arrays have been widely adopted for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy (MRS). An important step in the use of receive arrays for MRS is the combination of spectra collected from individual coil channels. The goal of this work was to implement an improved strategy termed OpTIMUS (i.