In their article,“Mass Screening for Retrocochlear Disorders: Low-Field (0.2-Tesla) versus
High-Field (1.5-T) MR Imaging,” Dr Dubrulle and his associates ask whether low-field …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: In patients with clinical symptoms suggestive of a
retrocochlear disorder, contrast-enhanced T1-weighted spin-echo (SE) high-field-strength …

The question,“What are appropriate clinical thresholds that would trigger further testing for
retrocochlear lesions?” has a very long history. Harvey Cushing, MD, first identified …

High resolution T2-weighted magnetic resonance (MR) imaging has been proposed as a
rapid, inexpensive means of investigating patients with sensorineural deafness, particularly …

Technical advances in MR imaging enable scanning of millimeter-and submillimeter-thick
slices in a relatively short acquisition time, so sequences such as contrast-enhanced 3D T1 …

PURPOSE To compare constructive interference in the steady state (CISS) three-
dimensional Fourier transform (3DFT) MR imaging with contrast-enhanced T1-weighted spin …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is capable of providing excellent images of the contents
of the internal auditory canal and cerebellopontine angle. In order to determine whether MRI …

Objective Non-contrast MRI of the internal auditory canal (IAC) using high-resolution T2WI
(T2 weighted image) has been proposed as the primary screening study in patients with …

The poor sensitivity of audiometric brain stem response for small vestibular schwannomas
(acoustic neuromas) creates a dilemma for the physician evaluating a patient with signs and …

In their article titled ''Cost Analysis of Asymmetric Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Investigations,''1 Wilson et al. conclude that serological testing of patients is superior to …