Haacke E M, DelProposto Z S, Chaturvedi S, Sehgal V, Tenzer M, Neelavalli J, Kido D
Institute for Biomedical Research, Detroit, Mich, USA.
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2007 Feb;28(2):316-7.
Gradient-echo (GE) imaging is recognized as a means to detect hemorrhagic changes in cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). However, almost 25% of patients with CAA do not show microhemorrhages on T2* GE imaging. We applied a new imaging method, susceptibility weighted imaging (SWI), to evaluate the presence of microhemorrhages. In a suspected case of CAA, where cognitive effects are also present, we show that SWI is much more sensitive in detecting microhemorrhages than conventional methods.
梯度回波(GE)成像被认为是检测脑淀粉样血管病(CAA)出血性改变的一种方法。然而,几乎25%的CAA患者在T2* GE成像上未显示微出血。我们应用了一种新的成像方法,即磁敏感加权成像(SWI)来评估微出血的存在。在一例疑似CAA且伴有认知功能影响的病例中,我们发现SWI在检测微出血方面比传统方法敏感得多。