Blood in the Brain on Susceptibility-Weighted Imaging

Neeraj Jain; Sunil Kumar; Anuradha Singh; Shweta Jain; Rajendra Vishnu Phadke

doi:10.1055/s-0042-1758880

Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging, Inhaltsverzeichnis

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Indian J Radiol Imaging 2023; 33(01): 089-097
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1758880

Review Article

Blood in the Brain on Susceptibility-Weighted Imaging

Authors

Neeraj Jain

¹Department of Radio Diagnosis, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Sunil Kumar

¹Department of Radio Diagnosis, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Anuradha Singh

¹Department of Radio Diagnosis, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Shweta Jain

²Department of Pathology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Rajendra Vishnu Phadke

¹Department of Radio Diagnosis, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract

Intraparenchymal brain hemorrhage is not uncommon and results from a wide variety of causes ranging from trauma to tumor. Many a time, it is not possible to determine the exact cause of non-traumatic hemorrhage on conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) is a high-resolution (3D) gradient-echo sequence. It is extremely sensitive to the inhomogeneity of the local magnetic field and highly useful in identifying the small amount of hemorrhage, which may be inapparent on other MR pulse sequences. In this review, we present different pattern of an intra-parenchymal brain hemorrhage on SWI with emphasis on differential diagnosis.

Keywords

susceptibility-weighted imaging - hemorrhage - microhemorrhage - brain hemorrhage - magnetic resonance imaging

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