MR
Spectroscopy: Basics and Clinical Applications Roland Kreis, Ph.D., and Daniel
M. Spielman, Ph.D., Organizers
Saturday, 15 May 2004, 08:30 - 18:00
Last
updated 20 February 2009
Course
Description This is the first of two courses on in vivo
MR spectroscopy. It will cover the basics and clinical aspects of MRS, with main
technical emphasis on the basics of MRS, data acquisition, processing and evaluation,
including quality analysis, followed by overviews and updates of the main clinical
applications.
Audience Description:
This course is designed for clinicians, radiologists, technologists,
students and basic scientists interested in the clinical application of
MR spectroscopy. Both beginners and continuing users will find it
helpful.
Educational
Objectives: Upon completion of this session,
participants should be able to: Describe fundamental principles of clinical MR
spectroscopy; Explain the crucial steps in performing and evaluating a
MRS examination; Enumerate potential pitfalls in the clinical application
of MR spectroscopy; Define diagnostic and patient management situations in
which there is a clinically significant justification for a MRS examination; Summarize recent clinical uses of in vivo MRS.
Program The final five minutes of each presentation will be reserved for
questions.
Introduction
and Methodology
08:30
Basics of MRS
Chris Boesch
09:00
Localization
Techniques
Markus von
Kienlin
09:30
Prescan and
Shimming
Daniel M.
Spielman
10:00
Discussion
10:15
Meet the Teacher
Break
10:45
Detectable
Metabolites and Their Significance
Robert J.
Gillies
11:15
Data Processing
+ Fitting
Andrew A.
Maudsley
11:45
Quantification +
Artifacts in Clinical MRS
Roland Kreis
12:15
Discussion
12:30
Meet the Teacher
Break
Applications
13:45
Clinical MRS:
Tumors and Masses in the Brain
Franklyn A. Howe
14:15
Clinical MRS:
Tumors and Masses in the Prostate and Breast
Describe fundamental principles of clinical MR
spectroscopy;