INTRODUCTION Bone marrow lesions (BMLs) are features detected on MRI that are important in the pathogenesis of knee osteoarthritis. Since BMLs reflect heterogeneous pathologies this prospective cohort study examined whether BMLs detected using different MRI sequences are associated with distinct structural and clinical endpoints. METHODS A total of 297 community-based adults without knee pain...

PURPOSE To compare a rapid fluid-attenuated inversion-recovery (FLAIR) sequence with T1-weighted, fast spin-echo proton density-weighted, and T2-weighted images in the evaluation of cerebrovascular disease. METHODS All patients underwent standard T1-, proton density-, and T2-weighted fast spin-echo and fast FLAIR MR imaging at 1.5 T. Images were compared for lesion size, location, and conspic...

E. Staroswiecki, K. L. Granlund, M. T. Alley, G. E. Gold, and B. A. Hargreaves Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States INTRODUCTION: The visualization of articular cartilage is a challenging problem that requires advanced MRI techniques. In order to follow the changes to tissue in early...

A 43-year-old man was admitted for head trauma after falling backward. The patient complained of diplopia. Unilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia (INO) was diagnosed during the neurologic examination. Initially, no specific finding was shown on T2-weighted, T1-weighted, and fluid attenuated inversion recovery brain magnetic resonance image (MRI) or brain computed tomography (CT). However, susc...

Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is an uncommon cause of stroke with diverse etiologies and varied clinical presentations. Because of variability in clinical presentation and neuroimaging, CVT remains a diagnostic challenge. Recently, some studies have highlighted the value of T2∗-weighted gradient-echo MRI (T2∗WI) in the diagnosis of CVT. We report the case of a 79-year-old woman with CVT due ...

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Three neuroradiologists retrospectively evaluated sagittal T2-weighted conventional spin-echo and FSE images obtained in 15 patients with metallic artifacts from various sources including drill particles from anterior cervical diskectomy, posterior fixalion wires, fixation rods or plates, and an inferior vena cava filter. The amount of artifact present and whether these a...

Background Qualitative assessment of myocardial T2-weighted and late enhancement (LGE) images has been demonstrated to differentiate acute from chronic myocardial infarction (AMI, CMI). Parametric mapping could help to overcome challenges in image quality and could contribute to making contrast media application obsolete. The aim of this pilot study was to analyze, whether T2and T1maps are usef...

Introduction Increasing interest in microbleeds had led to an increasing number of studies addressing its prevalence and clinical relevance. Prevalence estimates differ substantially between studies, due to differences in image protocols and field strengths. This study assessed the visualization of cerebral microbleeds with dual echo T2*-weighted imaging at 7.0 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging ...

Context. MRI of the spinal cord provides a variety of biomarkers sensitive to white matter integrity and neuronal function. Current processing methods are based on manual labeling of vertebral levels, which is time consuming and prone to user bias. Although several methods for automatic labeling have been published; they are not robust towards image contrast or towards susceptibility-related ar...

Four patients with expansile cystic lesions of the petrous bone had correlative CT and MR scans. Characteristic findings were noted on MR scans obtained with T1- (TR = 400-800, TE = 25-32) and T2- (TR = 2000-3000, TE = 64-80) weighted images. These findings include an expansile cystic lesion centered in the petrous apex with high signal intensity on both the T1- and T2-weighted images, compatib...