Patent ID: 8825131

Claim:
A magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) processing system configured to process a repetitive frame MRS spectral acquisition series generated and acquired for a voxel principally located within a region of interest (ROI) comprising at least a portion of an intervertebral disc via an MRS pulse sequence, and acquired at multiple parallel acquisition channels of a multi-coil spine detector assembly, in order to generate a processed MRS spectrum for the ROI with identifiable chemical peak regions from which data may be extracted to provide MRS-based diagnostic information for diagnosing a medical condition associated with, or chemical environment within, the disc, comprising: an automated MRS signal processor comprising a frequency shift corrector configured to recognize and correct a frequency shift error between multiple frames within the series and a frame editor configured to recognize and edit out frames from the series based upon a predetermined criteria, and that is configured to receive and automatically process the acquired MRS spectral acquisition series for the disc and to generate the processed MRS spectrum in a frame edited and frequency shift corrected form; 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.