Metabolic and functional mapping of the spinal cord using 1H-MR spectroscopy

磁共振波谱(MRS)目前被用于临床实践，以评估人体内的代谢物，特别是在鉴别诊断和评估治疗效果的颅内病变。MRS对脊柱病变也很有用，但很少用于脊柱病变，因为存在脑脊液搏动或脊髓本身运动等伪影。在我的实验中，MRS被证明是有用的，使用具有高空间分辨率和信噪比的超高场扫描仪。

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is currently used in the clinical practice for evaluation of metabolites in the human body, especially for differential diagnosis and evaluation of treatment efficacy in intracranial lesions. MRS would be also useful for spinal lesions, but there have been rarely used for spinal lesions, because of artifacts such as pulsation of cerebrospinal fluid or movement of spinal cord itself. In my experiment, MRS proved to be useful in spinal lesions, using ultra high field scanner with high spatial resolution and signal noise ratio.