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.