Clinical application MR susceptibility weighted imaging(SWI) in brain diseases / 重庆医科大学学报

ABSTRACT

Objective:To study the clinical value of susceptibility weighted imaging(SWI)in brain diseases.Methods:37 cases with blood vessel pathological change of brain diseases were collected and analyzed,including 8 example of angioma cavernosum,10 cerebral infarction,15 brain tumor,2 venous malformation and 2 venous sinus thrombus.Conventional T1WI,T2WI,DWI,the SWI and enhanced T1WI,MRA images were performed to compare the superiority of the SWI images to the others in demonstrating the small hemorrhagic focuses,the small vein,hemosiderin,calcification and other paramagnetic materials.Results:SWI could distinguish the hemorrhage from the blood vessel and discover the smaller hemorrhagic focuses of the angioma cavernosum.It could discover more tiny veins adjacent to the dilated draining vein.SWI could detect small hemorrhages in acute cerebral infarction and small draining veins in brain tumor.And draining veins in deep part and expanded rete venosum in the surfaces of brains could be obviously demonstrated when sinus venosus thrombus occurred.Conclusion:SWI is a new pulse sequence that can demonstrate the abnormal low current capacity blood vessels,the structure of small vein,the tiny hemorrhages as well as ferrugination and calcium deposition sensitively.So it can be applied in the diagnosis and antidiastole of the central nervous system diseases as an important supplement to the MRI conventional sequences.