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Abstract #0149

Sodium MRI and 1H MRS in the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Primary Brain Tumors

Fernando Emilio Boada1, Yongxian Qian1, Denise Davis1, Frank Lieberman2, Ronald Hamilton3, Arlan Mintz4, Eric Schwartz1

1Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 2Neuro-oncology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 3Neuropathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 4Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA


In this abstract we perform concurrent proton MRS and sodium MRI of primary brain tumor at 3 Tesla and evaluate the use of the two techniques with regards to ease of use, reproducibility and the correlation between their findings across tumor types.