Clinical NMR imaging of the brain: 140 cases

AJR. American Journal of Roentgenology
G M BydderN J Legg

Abstract

Cranial nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) scans were performed on 13 healthy volunteers and 140 patients with a broad spectrum of neurologic disease and compared with x-ray computed tomography (CT) scans. The NMR scans included a variety of sequences reflecting proton density, blood flow, T1, and T2 as well as transverse, sagittal, and coronal images. White matter, gray matter, and cerebrospinal fluid were clearly distinguished in the normal brain with inversion-recovery (IR) sequences, and normal progressive myelination was demonstrated in infants and children. Acute hemorrhages displayed short T1 values, but other pathologic processes such as infarction, infection, demyelination, edema, and malignancy were associated with long T1 values. Cysts had very long T1 values (about that of cerebrospinal fluid). Spin-echo (SE) sequences showed increased values of T2 in a variety of conditions and highlighted lesions against the relatively featureless background of the remaining brain. With inversion-recovery scans, different stages of infarction were recognized in the hemispheres. NMR was more useful than CT in demonstrating brainstem infarction. The white matter lesions in demyelinating diseases were well demonstrated with NMR scans. ...Continue Reading

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