title: Clinical Application of MR Spectroscopy and Imaging of Brain Tumor.
abstract: Advanced imaging techniques, including diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), perfusion-weighted imaging (PWI), and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) can provide more information than that regarding anatomy. These techniques have been commonly used in the clinical field and recently been shown useful in diagnosing brain tumors, especially in cases difficult to specify using conventional imaging. Differentiation requires more than attention to each advanced image. Diagnostic accuracy improves by combining information from MRS with that from other sequences, such as maps of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and fractional anisotropy (FA) generated from DTI and of cerebral blood volume (CBV) generated from PWI. We show clinical applications of advanced imaging techniques, combined MRS, for brain tumor.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Tokushima University Hospital. nmorita@clin.med.tokushima-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Naomi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Morita
authors.forename: Masafumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Harada
authors.forename: Hideki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Otsuka
authors.forename: Elias R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Melhem
authors.forename: Hiromu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nishitani
mesh_terms: D016880:Anisotropy; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D003287:Contrast Media; D038524:Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media