ASSSSEMENT OF MAGNATIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY IN PATIENTS WITH BRAIN LESIONS

Abstract

Spectroscopy has been recognized as a safe and non invasive diagnostic method that coupled with MRI techniques, allows for the correlation of anatomical and physiological changes in the metabolic and biochemical processes occurring in a previously determined volume in the brain. Diagnosis of primary and secondary brain tumors and other focal intracranial lesions based on imaging procedures alone is still a challenging problem. Magnetic resonant spectroscopy gives completely different information related to cell membrane proliferation, neuronal damage, energy metabolism and necrotic transformation of brain or tumor tissues.