Patent ID: 8761860

Claim:
A magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) processing system configured to process a repetitive frame MRS spectral acquisition series generated and acquired for a voxel located within an intervertebral disc via an MRS pulse sequence, and acquired at multiple acquisition channels of a multi-coil spine detector assembly, in order to provide a processed MRS spectrum with at least one chemical region from which spectral data may be extracted and processed to provide diagnostic information for a medical condition or chemical environment in the disc, comprising: an automated MRS signal processor comprising a channel selector, a phase shift corrector, a frequency shift corrector, a frame editor, and a channel combiner, and configured to receive and process the MRS spectral acquisition series for the disc and to generate at least in part the processed MRS spectrum for the series; and wherein the MRS signal processor comprises at least one of (a) at least one computer processor and (b) software provided in computer readable non-transitory storage and that is configured to be run by at least one computer processor.