Eleanor F. Cox1, Susan E. Pritchard1,
Peter J. Wright1, Tomas Paus2, Penny A. Gowland1
1SPMMRC, Physics & Astronomy,
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom; 2Brain
& Body Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire,
United Kingdom
This
study has examined the effects of age (40-75 years) and sex on the T2 of the
human brain at 7.0 T. The results show that there is considerable variation
in T2s across grey and white matter regions, and a trend for women to have
longer WM T2s than men. The white matter T2s of men changed with age but the
T2s of women did not.