MR spectroscopy to help differentiate squamous cell carcinoma of the extracranial head and
neck from normal tissues and to correlate the in vitro observations with clinical studies.
METHODS In vitro 1-D and 2-D correlated proton MR spectroscopy (11 T) was performed in
tissue specimens of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (n= 19), in normal tissue
(n= 13), in metastatic cervical lymph nodes (n= 3), and in a squamous cell carcinoma cell …