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MR imaging of the peripheral nervous system by W. Scott Enochs; Ralph Weissleder is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is MR imaging of the peripheral nervous system about?
MAGNETIC RESONANCE (MR) imaging has become the modality of choice for evaluating the peripheral nervous system (PNS), since MR imaging has shown a high sensitivity for detecting a variety of mechanical (compression and entrapment), inflammatory, neoplastic, and traumatic lesions. The sensitivity of MR imaging in many of these disorders is increased by intravenous administration of paramagnetic chelates such as gadopentetate dimeglumine. Recently, techniques based on diffusion or very heavy T2 weighting have been described for imaging peripheral nerves selectively. Neuronal function also has been demonstrated recently in experimental studies by using intraneural injection of superparamagnetic iron oxide compounds that exhibit slow axonal transport. In the future, selective imaging of nerves (neurography) coupled with targeted (neurotropic) contrast agents may show not only morphologic but also early functional abnormalities of peripheral nerves. CONVENTIONAL IMAGING TECHNIQUES ## MR Imaging versus CT MR imaging offers distinct advantages over computed tomography (CT) in studying the PNS in certain anatomic regions. One such region is the skull base, where the lack of bone artifacts
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- Author
- W. Scott Enochs; Ralph Weissleder
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1053-1807)
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)