Cerebral Microbleeds in a Small Cohort of Patients with First Ever Lacunar Stroke. A 3Tesla MRI Longitudinal Case Series
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Patients had the 3Tesla MRI scan after 4.5 days from the index event. The structural MRI protocol, including standard MR sequences (DWI axial image, 3D T1 MP RAGE, 3D FLAIR, GRE) was applied to identify MR visible abnormalities. Axial diffusion-weighted images were acquired by using a spin-echo echo-planar imaging sequence (repetition time (TR)/echo time (TE), 2800/77 ms; field of view (FOV), 230 mm; matrix size, 128/128; slice thickness, 4 mm; averages, 2, maximum b value, 1000 s/mm2). The parameters of the other imaging sequences were as follows:
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