MORNING CATEGORICAL COURSE
Clinical Applications of MR Spectroscopy

Room 201 C
07:00 – 08:00

Chairs: Arend Heerschap and Sarah J. Nelson
Educational Objectives

Upon completion of this course participants should be able to:

• Identify situations where MRS may be valuable in diagnosis or assessment of response to therapy;

• Select the most appropriate MRS techniques for such applications;
• Describe abnormal spectral patterns associated with specific pathology;
• Identify metabolites in spectra from normal and diseased brain, prostate and muscle tissue;
• Recognize common spectral artifacts and distinguish them from regions of pathology.
07:00 Technical Considerations for Performing Single Voxel Proton MRS of the Brain, Roland Kreis.
07:20 MRS for Clinical Decision Making in Pediatric Disease,
07:40 A Multi-Center Clinical Trial of AIDS Dementia Using MRS, R. Gilberto Gonzalez.

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