Abstract #4085
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Breast Cancer using the SLIM Technique Initial Results
Patrick J Bolan 1,2 , Steen Moeller 1 , Gregory J Metzger 1,2 , Michael Garwood 1,2 , Douglas Yee 2,3 , and Michael T Nelson 1,2
1
Radiology, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN, United States,
2
Masonic
Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN,
United States,
3
Medicine, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) can provide
clinically valuable metabolic information for diagnosing
and treating breast cancer, but current acquisition
techniques need improvement. Single-voxel MRS (SVS)
gives good quality but requires expertise to acquire,
whereas chemical shift imaging (CSI) methods are easier
to acquire but give lower quality spectra. Our long-term
goal is to use a technique known as
Spectral
Localization by IMaging
(SLIM)
to reconstruct acquired CSI data, producing high-quality
spectra comparable to SVS but with the robust
acquisition of CSI. This work presents initial results
in breast cancer showing SLIM spectra that are
comparable or better than CSI.
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