RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Clinical NMR Imaging of the Brain in Children: Normal and Neurologic Disease
JF American Journal of Neuroradiology
JO Am. J. Neuroradiol.
FD American Society of Neuroradiology
SP 1013
OP 1026
VO 4
IS 5
A1 M. A. Johnson
A1 J. M. Pennock
A1 G. M. Bydder
A1 R. E. Steiner
A1 D. J. Thomas
A1 R. Hayward
A1 D. R. T. Bryant
A1 J. A. Payne
A1 M. I. Levene
A1 A. Whitelaw
A1 L. M. S. Dubowitz
A1 V. Dubowitz
YR 1983
UL http://www.ajnr.org/content/4/5/1013.abstract
AB The results of initial clinical nuclear magnetic resonance imaging of the brain in eight normal and 52 children with a wide variety of neurologic diseases were reviewed. The high level of gray-white matter contrast available with inversion-recovery sequences provided a basis for visualizing normal myelination as well as delays or deficits in this process. The appearances seen In cases of parenchymal hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, and porencephalic cysts are described. Ventricular enlargement was readily identified and mareginal edema was demonstrated with spin-echo sequeces. Abnormalities were sleen in cerebral palsy, congenital malformations, Hallervorden-Spatz disease, aminoaciduria, and meningitis. Space-occupying lesions were identified by virtue of their increased relaxation times and mass effects. Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging has considerable potential in pediatric neuroradiologic practice, in some conditions supplying information not available by computed tomography or sonography.