Main clinical applications of MRS


With greater feasibility in the clinical practice setting, the indications for MRS are multiplying. In brain MRS, it yields diagnostic data for:

  • Tumoral pathologies: choline, myo-inositol (gliomas), free lipids (necrotic tumor: glioblastoma, metastasis…), alanine (meningioma), lactate
  • Demyelinizing inflammatory pathologies: myo-inositol
  • Infectious diseases: free acetate and aminoacids in certain abscesses, reduction of NAA and VIH encephalopathy
  • Metabolic pathologies: myo-inositol and glutamine / glutamate in hepatic encephalopathy, lactate and diffuse cerebral distress
  • Epilepsy, brain maturation and degenerative diseases…