Current Status and Future Prospects of Proton MR Spectroscopy of the Breast with a 1.5T MR Unit

Figure 1

Chemical shift imaging (CSI) of breast cancer. ((a), (b)) Spectroscopy data acquire multitarget volume and multivoxels (a). TR = 1500 ms, TE = 270 ms, voxel size = 10 $\times$ 10 $\times$15 mm³, the time of acquisition = 7 minutes. The spectrum spans from 2.0 to 4.5 ppm (b). The choline (Cho) peak was detected at 3.24 ppm. ((c), (d)) Both spectral map (c) and metabolite map (d) are made by spectroscopy data. Choline peak is displayed in color map (d). High-signal intensity area (color: red) indicates high-signal intensity from breast cancer.

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