TITLE:
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the diagnosis and follow-up of brain tumors
AUTHORS:
Abdelkhalek Housni, Said Boujraf
KEYWORDS:
Brain Tumour; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; Assessment
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering,
Vol.5 No.12A,
December
31,
2012
ABSTRACT: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
(MRS) is nowadays considered as a main MRI investigation modality in the clinical
routine jointly with conventional anatomical and functional magnetic resonance imag-
ing for studying brain tumours. MRS provides complementary information about cellular
metabolism. This allows differentiating the brain tumours from abscess, the diagnosis
of the tumour type, characterization of brain tumours, as well as local study
of the morphological abnormalities observed in
conventional MRI. The MRS could be used in the therapeutic follow-up for
evaluating the pathological active area of brain, and allows optimizing the guided
biopsy as well as to differentiating recurrent
tumour from a necrosis.