A 20-year-old male asked:
can magnetic resonance spectroscopy be used to detect lyme disease or other infections in the brain? if so how?
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Dr. Paul Garrett answered
39 years experience Radiology
Spectroscopy uses: Typically MR spectroscopy (MRS) is a problem solver used to evaluate tiny volumes of tissue for signs of malignancy or to characterize MS. Infectious lesions can be investigated with MRS but MRS is not, in my experience, commonly used for this. There is one article where MRS was used for dx. of a brain virus, so yes someone might try to use it for Lyme, but I am not aware of an article yet.
Answered on Jan 15, 2018
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Dr. Gurmukh Singh answered
48 years experience Pathology
Not a relevant test: NMR is not an appropriate investigative tool for diagnosing infections.
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Answered on Mar 22, 2020
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Dr. Paul Garrett commented
39 years experience Radiology
Since some brain infections can mimic malignancies it would not be unheard of to do MRS and end up with an infectious diagnosis. If however the intent is to investigate infection from the start, insurance would never pay, I suspect, so in that sense, Dr. Singh is quite correct.
Jan 15, 2018
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