Monday, May 15, 2023

MRI Patient Education for Children

Into the Magic Imaging Cave (click HERE to view the story book) 





Into the Magic Imaging Cave (click HERE to view the story book) 




Source:
Pediatric Edition – Issue 81 (2/2022), Magnetom Flash, Siemens Healthineers

Thursday, July 5, 2018

Fetal MRI - Spine


















Keywords: Myelomeningocoele, Myelocystocoele, Myeloschisis, HASTE

Source:
1. Prayer D., Brugger P C., Prayer L. Fetal MRI: techniques and protocols. Pediatr Radiol (2004) 34:685-693.
2. Simon EM. MRI of the fetal spine. Pediatr Radiol (2004) 34:712-719.


Sunday, April 28, 2013

Updated ACR MRI Safety Guidance


The updated version of MRI safety guidance titled “ACR Guidance Document on Safe MR Practices: 2013”, is now freely available online in PDF format, HERE.

Thursday, August 9, 2012

MRI Safety







Tag: MRI Safety

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Proton MRS Spectra for Selected Brain Pathologies


Tags: MRS, MR Spectroscopy, Metabolites, Low Grade Astrocytoma, Anaplastic Astrocytoma, Glioblastoma, Metastasis, Meningioma


Sunday, January 1, 2012

T2 Preparation Pulses for Coronary Artery Imaging



Tags: T2 preparation pulse, arterial blood, venous blood, myocardium


Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL)









Tags: Arterial spin labeling, ASL, pASL, CBF, PICORE, QUIPSS, Q2TIPS, Magnetization Transfer

Source:
Petersen. Non-invasive measurement of perfusion: a critical review of arterial spin labelling techniques. British Journal of Radiology (2006) vol. 79 (944) pp. 688-701

Jahng et al. Improved perfusion-weighted MRI by a novel double inversion with proximal labeling of both tagged and control acquisitions. Magn. Reson. Med. (2003) vol. 49 (2) pp. 307-314


Thursday, July 14, 2011

Colombini MRI Case: Root Cause Analysis - Tobias Gilk & Reliability Center


Tags: MRI safety, Root cause analysis, Colombini accident


Saturday, June 25, 2011

MRI-Conditional Cardiac Pacemakers & Leads from St. Jude Medical (SJM)



Tags: MRI, cardiac pacemaker, implantable cardiac device, Accent MRI Pacemaker, Tendril MRI Lead


Saturday, April 2, 2011

Susceptibility Weighted Imaging (II/II) - Image Gallery






Tags: Susceptibility Weighted Imaging, SWI, Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis, Microbleeds

Source:
Mittal et al. Susceptibility-weighted imaging: technical aspects and clinical applications, part 2. AJNR American journal of neuroradiology (2009) vol. 30 (2) pp. 232-52


Susceptibility Weighted Imaging (I/II)




Tags: Magnetic Susceptibility, SWI, Phase-weighted Magnitude Image, T2*


Friday, April 1, 2011

Magnetic Susceptibility Artefact





Tags: Magnetic Susceptibility, Artefact, Susceptibility Gradient


MRI of Silicone Breast Implant




Tags: Breast implant, Silicone implant, MR Mammography, Inversion Recovery, Spectral Water Suppression


Sunday, March 13, 2011

Brachial Plexus MRI (II/II)









Tags: Brachial Plexus, 3D STIR SPACE, 3D MR Myelography

Source:
Vargas et al. New approaches in imaging of the brachial plexus. European journal of radiology (2010) vol. 74 (2) pp. 403-10