Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
NMR Biomed. 2021 May;34(5):e4484. doi: 10.1002/nbm.4484. Epub 2021 Feb 9.
The translation of MRS to clinical practice has been impeded by the lack of technical standardization. There are multiple methods of acquisition, post-processing, and analysis whose details greatly impact the interpretation of the results. These details are often not fully reported, making it difficult to assess MRS studies on a standardized basis. This hampers the reviewing of manuscripts, limits the reproducibility of study results, and complicates meta-analysis of the literature. In this paper a consensus group of MRS experts provides minimum guidelines for the reporting of MRS methods and results, including the standardized description of MRS hardware, data acquisition, analysis, and quality assessment. This consensus statement describes each of these requirements in detail and includes a checklist to assist authors and journal reviewers and to provide a practical way for journal editors to ensure that MRS studies are reported in full.
MRS 向临床实践的转化受到缺乏技术标准化的阻碍。有多种采集、后处理和分析方法，其细节对结果的解释有重大影响。这些细节通常未被充分报告，使得难以在标准化基础上评估 MRS 研究。这阻碍了手稿的审查，限制了研究结果的可重复性，并使文献的荟萃分析复杂化。在本文中，一组 MRS 专家提供了 MRS 方法和结果报告的最低指南，包括 MRS 硬件、数据采集、分析和质量评估的标准化描述。这份共识声明详细描述了这些要求，并包括一个检查表，以协助作者和期刊审稿人，并为期刊编辑提供一种实用的方法，以确保 MRS 研究得到全面报告。
