Abstract
Susceptibility weighted imaging (SWI) provides information about the intravascular cerebral blood oxygenation level. Deoxyhemoglobin is increased in tissue with increased oxygen extraction fraction. Accordingly, the draining veins in hypoxic-ischemic brain may reveal abnormally low SWI signal. We report on a boy with hypoxic-ischemic injury (HII) after cardiac arrest and the ability of SWI to depict areas of HII by focusing on the venous cerebral drainage.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 528-530 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Journal of Neuroimaging |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- Children
- Hypoxic-ischemic injury
- Magnetic resonance imaging
- Susceptibility weighted imaging
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
- Clinical Neurology