Fernando Emilio Boada1, Yongxian Qian1, Denise Davis1, Frank Lieberman2, Ronald Hamilton3, Arlan Mintz4, Eric Schwartz1
1Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 2Neuro-oncology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 3Neuropathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 4Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
In this abstract we perform concurrent proton MRS and sodium MRI of primary brain tumor at 3 Tesla and evaluate the use of the two techniques with regards to ease of use, reproducibility and the correlation between their findings across tumor types.