Hi Glenn,
Thanks for this. I'm aware of MRN and the protocol for it thanks to En Bloc teaching me all about it recently, but the study or technique referred to in the article/study and in my post is something completely different as I explain. It has to do with signs of DRG damage via a cervical MRI. More precisely, I'm looking for help interpreting my cervical MRI in light of it. I'd be grateful, if you or anyone had knowledge on this front and could help me out.
Thanks again, and yes, you're discussions have been quite helpful. In fact, that's how I came to this little piece of information.
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Originally Posted by glenntaj
--traditional MRI, even with the different type of images, is not that good at picking up lesions in the dorsal root ganglia; the radiologist reading the scans has to additionally be looking for them very specifically and to be familiar through training what they might look like. Otherwise they just seem to be signal fluctuations of uncertain significance.
What I believe they may actually have been using in this study, although I don't believe it was referred to this way, then, is the fairly new specialized MRI technique known as magnetic resonance neurography or MRN. This is a farily new adjustment, not done at all centers, of the MRI protocol using magnetic wave passes designed to look at nerves more closely and selectively,and this seems to create more detailed images of nerve structures than was previously possible.
We've had a few discussions about MRN here that you can search up--this article, though technical, gives a pretty good idea what it involves:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3622412/ |