MR spectrsocopy of head and neck cancer

作者：Razek Ahmed Abdel Khalek Abdel^*; Poptani Harish

来源：European Journal of Radiology, 2013, 82(6): 982-989.

DOI：10.1016/j.ejrad.2013.01.025

• MR spectroscopy
• Head and neck
• Cancer

The aim of this review is to discuss the technique and potential applications of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) in head and neck cancer. Weillustrate the technical issues related to data acquisition, post processing and interpretation of MRS of head and neck lesions. MRS has been used for differentiation of squamous cell carcinoma from normal tissue. The main potential clinical application of proton MRS (H-1-MRS) is monitoring patients with head and neck cancer undergoing therapy. Pretreatment prediction of response to therapy can be done with phosphorus MRS (P-31-MRS). Although performance of MRS of head and neck is challenging, technological advances in both software and hardware has the potential to impact on the clinical management of patients with head and neck cancer.

• 出版日期2013-6