Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
14 May, 08 | by Ian Wacogne
When I’m feeling a bit mellow or philosophical, I often wonder what things we’ll laugh about doing when we were young doctors. A colleague tells me that he was firmly instructed as a junior doctor that when taking aminophyline levels he shouldn’t smoke. The challenge is to spot what will seem equally baffling to my younger colleagues. I’ve had a bit of a hint of this, being employed at one of the institutions where Andrew Peet, first author on this paper works, and sat in wonder through some of his amazing presentations. In short, and in this (virtual) layperson’s terms, they are using magnetic resonance spectroscopy to peak inside the brain and look at what stuff is there. Well, you might say, that’s just MR. But when I say stuff, I don’t just mean the beautiful pictures we’re becoming so used to these days. more…