Patent Document ID: 20080224700
Application ID: 12077100
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for displaying MR spectroscopy data acquired using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, the method comprising the steps of: a) acquiring MR spectroscopy data from a region of interest using the MRI system; b) determining a relative signal amplitude of each of a plurality of points in the MR spectroscopy data resulting from frequency components of molecules in the region of interest; and c) mapping each of the plurality of points to a particular optical parameter based at least upon on at least one of the signal spectral amplitude associated with each point and an area under a series of adjacent points in the plurality of points; d) generating a point for each of the plurality of points having the optical parameter mapped in step c); and e) arranging the point for each of the plurality of points together to form a hypsometric map.