MEDRADSC 2Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Magnetic Resonance Angiography, Medulla Oblongata, Limbic Lobe

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Medical Radiation Sciences
• Course: MEDRADSC 2Z03
• Professor: Dawn Danko

Document Summary

The striking soft tissue contrast and high spatial resolution available for in vivo imaging makes mri an ideal and powerful modality for clinical imaging of the human brain. Applications of mri to the diagnosis of brain disorders and disease are many and varied and the technology has become highly developed with protocols and sequences being targeted to specific conditions. The majority of brain pathology can be diagnosed with mri. A comprehensive review of brain mri is beyond the scope of this course so we highlight a small number of examples. We introduce basic brain anatomy and demonstrate the mri appearance of some brain structures. Some examples of this were presented in the preceding sections on image contrast, including t1 and t2 weighting, diffusion, perfusion and mr angiography. The brain is the central communications system for the human body. The central nervous system fundamentally consists of the brain and spine and associated nerves and vascular system.