2.3. Metabolite Map Coverage
tumor, metabolic abnormality
TUMOR
For spectroscopic MRI maps, during initial data processing, poor-quality spectra were removed based on various criteria [Such filtering may result in differences in coverage between the scans in areas surrounding the tumor. This process generates a quality map, which is a mask identifying the voxels that passed all criteria. To allow for unbiased comparative analysis, the quality maps with lower coverage masks were applied to the metabolite maps and any contours generated based on metabolic abnormality for both scans.