nowadays brain tumors remain as a significant cause of morbidity and mortality and are often treatment refractory. the grading of brain tumor has an important implication in clinical management. currently, magnetic resonance spectroscopy (mrs) is an important modality in evaluating and grading brain tumors. the aim of this study is  evaluation of metabolites in the differentiation of brain tumo...

how to cite this article: shetty g, avabratha k.s, rai b.s. ring-enhancing lesions in the brain: a diagnostic dilemma. iran j child neurol. 2014 summer;8(3): 61-64. abstract the most common radiological abnormality seen in young indian patients with epilepsy is single small enhancing (ring/disc) computed tomographic (ct) lesions. the two most common differential diagnosis of this lesion in clin...

conclusion distinct neurochemical and histological structure changes (cortico-striatal-thalamic-cortical cycle) exist in patients with first-episode ocd. 1h-mrs is capable of identifying these changes by assessing metabolic abnormalities. objectives this study aims to use magnetic resonance spectroscopy (mrs) to discover substance-metabolism abnormalities of brain circuits in patients with firs...

background epilepsy, a well-known mostly idiopathic neurologic disorder, has to be correctly diagnosed and properly treated. up to now, several diagnostic approaches have been processed to determine the epileptic focus. objectives the aim of this study was to discover whether proton-mr-spectroscopic imaging (mrsi) aids in the diagnosis of temporal lobe epilepsy in conjunction with classical ele...

background: to analyze the characteristic performance of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (mrs) and susceptibility weighted imaging (swi) in cerebral alve-olar echinococcosis (cae). methods: we retrospectively analyzed 10 clinical-identified cae cases mr per-formance, and summarized the mrs and swi performance of cae. results: the 10 cases of cae all had the history of primary hae, among who 6 c...

background: distinction between radiation necrosis and recurrence of intraparenchymal tumors is necessary to select the appropriate treatment, but it is often difficult based on imaging features alone. we developed an algorithm for analyzing magnetic resonance spectroscopy (mrs) findings and studied its accuracy in differentiation between radiation necrosis and tumor recurrence. m e t hod s :  ...

background although magnetic resonance spectroscopy (mrs) has been shown as an effective diagnostic tool in distinguishing inflammation from neoplasm in cystic brain lesions, the optimum approach in selecting the portions of lesions in mrs and the possible effects of different times of echoes (tes) remains unknown. objectives to determine the most effective te in diagnosing neoplastic lesions b...

background celiac disease (cd) is a disorder associated with body reaction to gluten. after the gluten intake, an immune reaction against the protein occurs and damages villi of small intestine in celiac patients gradually. objectives the osc, a filtering method for minimization of inter- and intra-spectrometer variations that influence on data acquisition, was applied to biofluid nmr data of c...

conclusions by a simple check of the water peak characteristics, lots of information can be obtained, one of which is the status of shimming that has a considerable effect on the accuracy of the spectrum. thus, performing an automatic or manual shimming is not a criterion of the spectrum accuracy, and performing a periodic quality control using a test phantom by a specialist is necessary. brief...