Author/Authors :
Lavdas، نويسنده , , Eleftherios and Mavroidis، نويسنده , , Panayiotis and Topaltzikis، نويسنده , , Theofilos and Slatinopoulos، نويسنده , , Vasileios and Roka، نويسنده , , Violeta and Vlachopoulou، نويسنده , , Anna and Papanikolaou، نويسنده , , Nikos and Stathakis، نويسنده , , Sotirios and Kapsalaki، نويسنده , , Eftichia and Batsikas، نويسنده , , Georgios، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
The purpose of this study is to report the significant differences found in the identification of lesions in cervical spinal cord of two patients with multiple sclerosis when using the BLADE T2-TSE and BLADE T2-TIRM sequences as opposed to the conventional T2-TSE and T2-TIRM sequences for sagittal acquisition at 1.5 T. In both patients, one more lesion was identified with the BLADE sequences than with the conventional ones. Consequently, we suggest the use of BLADE T2-TSE and BLADE T2-TIRM sequences in place of conventional ones for sagittal examination of the cervical spinal cord of multiple sclerosis patients. The advantages of ΤΙRΜ to reveal the pathology of the cervical spinal cord and the advantage of BLADE sequences to improve image quality should be combined in a sequence that could be ideal for cervical spinal cord examinations.
Keywords :
BLADE , MRI , MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS , T2-TSE , Lesion identification
