Accurate, noninvasive diagnosis of human brain tumors by using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 323-325

  Preul, Mark C ^a   Caramanos, Zografos ^a   Collins, D Louis ^a   Villemure, Jean Guy ^a   Leblanc, Richard ^a   Olivier, Andre ^a   Pokrupa, Ronald ^a   Arnold, Douglas L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ADULT; ALANINE; ASPARTIC ACID; ASTROCYTOMA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHOLINE; CREATINE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LACTATES; LACTIC ACID; LIPID METABOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029990028     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0396-323     Document Type: Article

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