Gaddamanugu Siddhartha, Shafaat Omid, Sotoudeh Houman, Sarrami Amir Hossein, Rezaei Ali, Saadatpour Zahra, Singhal Aparna
Department of Radiology, Birmingham VA Medical Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 700 S. 19th Street, Birmingham, AL, 35233, USA.
The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Neuroradiology. 2022 Jan;64(1):15-30. doi: 10.1007/s00234-021-02819-3. Epub 2021 Oct 1.
Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is a well-established MRI sequence for diagnosing early stroke and provides therapeutic implications. However, DWI yields pertinent information in various other brain pathologies and helps establish a specific diagnosis and management of other central nervous system disorders. Some of these conditions can present with acute changes in neurological status and mimic stroke. This review will focus briefly on diffusion imaging techniques, followed by a more comprehensive description of the utility of DWI in common neurological entities beyond stroke.
扩散加权成像(DWI)是一种成熟的用于诊断早期中风的MRI序列,并具有治疗指导意义。然而,DWI在各种其他脑部病变中也能产生相关信息,有助于对其他中枢神经系统疾病进行明确诊断和管理。其中一些病症可表现为神经功能状态的急性变化并酷似中风。本综述将简要聚焦于扩散成像技术,随后更全面地描述DWI在中风以外常见神经疾病中的应用。