Philip John Siddall,Carolyn E. Mountford,Anne Woodhouse,Peter Stanwell,Rajmund L. Somorjai
申请号：
US13426324
公开号：
US20120238862A1
申请日:
2012.03.21
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要：
A system and method identifies different components of the pain experience (nociceptive (tissue damage), neuropathic (nerve damage) and psychological) and their relative contributions by the use of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) to measure absolute and relative concentrations of metabolites in specific brain regions in the central nervous system or brain. The system and method can be used as a diagnostic tool for the assessment of the relative contribution of different aspects of the pain experience as well as monitoring of response to interventions directed at modifying these components.
