Multi-parametric MRI offers a significant amount of data relevant for characterization of human cerebral thrombi. In the study cerebral thrombi of 17 patients diagnosed with acute stroke were acquired by mechanical thrombectomy and then scanned by a high spatial-resolution 3D T1-weighted MRI and also by ADC and T2 mapping. The MRI results (sample-mean ADC and T2, within-sample coefficient of variation of ADC and T2, and thrombus length) were analyzed for possible correlations between thrombectomy procedure parameters such as recanalization time and number of passes. Both MRI mapping techniques enabled a good discrimination among thrombi regions of different water mobility and compaction. Preliminary results of the study showed that pretreatment MRI assessment of thrombi in stroke patients could potentially ease stroke treatment planning.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32890919
In this study, it was tested whether it is possible to quantify by in vivo clinical MRI small structures in human body such as blood clots. In the study T2 mapping was employed to evaluate a response of dental pulp response to caries progression. In addition, caries was assessed according to the International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS). In all the examined dental pulps, it was found that T2 values decrease with an increase in the ICDAS score. Thus, it was concluded that T2 value of dental pulp is a reliable marker of dental pulp response to caries progression and that dental pulp MRI has a potential to become a complementary diagnostic tool to standard radiographic methods in the assessment of dental pulp response to caries.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3309179
The aim of our study was to identify and prospectively follow sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in acute unilateral lateral medullary infarction (ULMI). Patient included in the study had by MRI confirmed acute ULMI. Our data show that SDB is common in the acute phase of ULMI and that the frequency of central events decreases in the subacute phase.
COBISS.SI-ID: 6984364