METHOD FOR DETECTING MALIGNANT TUMORS OF LIVER Russian patent published in 1999 - IPC

FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: method involves carrying out magnetic resonance therapy of the liver and additional magnetic resonance proton spectroscopy of detected pathological focuses and normal tissues recording lipid contents. Lipid level being detected to have at least 3-7 fold drop in the focus when compared to healthy liver tissue, malignant process is considered to be the case. Lipids being detected in health tissues or their 2.8 fold drop being observed, benign process is considered to be the case. The drop being in the interval of 2.9 to 3.7, the patient is considered to belong to risk group from the point of view of the given disease. EFFECT: non-invasive differential diagnosis method in cases of pathologic formations in the liver. 2 cl