Non-invasive detection for the characterization of brain metabolism using magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Abstract

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy is the study of metabolites for the characterization of pathologies. These are of medical interest for the diagnosis and evolution of a patient through the analysis of the spectra, due to their importance, the present study has developed an effective methodology. Observing that of the 89 patients we obtain as a result that the MULTIVÓXEL technique is the most frequently used technique with 52.8% and the MONOVÓXEL technique the least frequent with 29.2%. In the tests it can be seen that the ICD-C71.0 classification is predominant with 14 cases. In addition, the highest percentage of N-Acetyl-Aspartate (NAA) is decreased 41.6%, 30.3% of patients have a normal NAA and 57.3% have elevated choline. Which allows us to conclude that the application of the method used was effective to guarantee the reliability of the reception of the sample spectrum.