St Hilda's College
Professor Saad Jbabdi, Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Engineering at St Hilda’s College, is a co-author of a new primer on Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) set to publish this August.
Professor Jbabdi, Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Head of Diffusion Analysis at the FMRIB Centre, has lent his expertise to An Introduction to Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Acquisition and Analysis, alongside colleagues William Clarke and Adam Berrington. The book, part of the Oxford Neuroimaging Primers, explores the complex world of MRS for neuroimagers, clinicians, and students.
The book is scheduled for release on 6 August 2025, offering accessible coverage of key topics—from acquisition parameters and calibration to real-world artefact troubleshooting—all supplemented by online datasets and worked examples. The primer aims to fill a known gap in practical guidance for newcomers to MRS—a technique praised for its “fantastically flexible, quantitative and non-invasive” approach to brain biochemistry, yet often regarded as challenging to master.