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Synthetic MRI in subarachnoid haemorrhage

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Aim
To evaluate the reliability of synthetic magnetic resonance imaging (SyMRI) for detecting complications associated with subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH), such as ischaemic lesions, hydrocephalus, or bleeding complications.
Materials and methods
Twenty patients with SAH, who underwent a conventional brain MRI and a SyMRI on a 3 T MRI machine. Comparable conventional and synthetic T2-weighted fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) images were acquired. The presence of ischaemic lesions, hydrocephalus, extra-axial blood collections as well as the volumes of grey matter (GMv), white matter (WMv), and cerebrospinal (CSFv) were compared. The acquisition times of both sequences was also analysed.
Results
The concordance between the two techniques was excellent for the detection of ischaemic lesions and extra-axial collections (kappa = 0.80 and 0.88 respectively) and good for the detection of hydrocephalus (kappa = 0.69). No significant differences were detected in the number of ischaemic lesions (p=0.31) or in the Evans index (p=0.11). The WMv and CSFv measures were also similar (p=0.18 and p=0.94, respectively), as well as the volume of ischaemic lesions (p=0.79). Compared to conventional MRI, the SyMRI acquisition time was shorter regardless of the number of sections (32% and 6% time reduction for 4 or 3 mm section thickness, respectively).
Conclusions
SyMRI allows the detection of potential complications of SAH in a similar way to conventional MRI with a shorter acquisition time.

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Clinical Radiology, 2021, vol. 76, num.10

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cc-by (c) Montejo González, Carmen et al., 2021

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Articles publicats en revistes (Fonaments Clínics)

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Synthetic MRI in subarachnoid haemorrhage