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Research from Tokyo Women's Medical University in spectroscopy provides new insights

Published in Women's Health Law Weekly, January 27th, 2008

According to recent research from Tokyo, Japan, "Metabolic characteristics of intracranial metastases, detected with proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (H-1-MRS) have known associations with clinical predictors of tumor response to radiosurgery. Therefore, it can be suspected that the metabolic profile of the neoplasm by itself might have some prognostic significance for the outcome after irradiation."

"Twenty-six intracranial metastases, which underwent metabolic evaluation with single-voxel H-1-MRS before gamma knife radiosurgery (GKR) and were followed for at least 3 months after treatment, were selected for retrospective analysis. The tumors most frequently...

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