<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a system for detecting and monitoring a neurodegenerative disease using magnetic resonance spectroscopy. <P>SOLUTION: The method for increasing sensitivity and/or specificity of a magnetic resonance spectroscopy imaging technique for detecting the neurodegenerative disease, includes a process for collecting magnetic resonance spectroscopy data from the brain of a subject 100 while suppressing certain metabolites in the spectrum via a data collection protocol, to improve quantification accuracy for the remaining metabolites, and a process for quantifying a metabolite concentration or a metabolite concentration ratio from the spectral data as an indicator of the neurodegenerative disease. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI 
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING AND MONITORING NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE USING MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY