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Comparison of BLADE and conventional T2-TSE sequences for the sagittal visualization of the cervical spinal cord in multiple sclerosis patients — A case report |
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| Authors: | Eleftherios Lavdas Panayiotis Mavroidis Theofilos Topaltzikis Vasileios Slatinopoulos Violeta Roka Anna Vlachopoulou Nikos Papanikolaou Sotirios Stathakis Eftichia Kapsalaki Georgios Batsikas |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Medical Radiological Technologists, Technological Education Institute of Athens, Greece;2. Department of Radiological Sciences, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA;3. Department of Medical Physics, Karolinska Institutet & Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden;4. Department of Medical Imaging, IASO Thessalias Hospital, Larissa, Greece;5. Department of Neurosurgery, IASO Thessalias Hospital, Larissa, Greece;6. Health Center of Farkadona, Trikala, Greece;g Department of Radiology, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece |
| Abstract: | The purpose of this study is to report the significant differences found in the identification of lesions in cervical spinal cord of two patients with multiple sclerosis when using the BLADE T2-TSE and BLADE T2-TIRM sequences as opposed to the conventional T2-TSE and T2-TIRM sequences for sagittal acquisition at 1.5 T. In both patients, one more lesion was identified with the BLADE sequences than with the conventional ones. Consequently, we suggest the use of BLADE T2-TSE and BLADE T2-TIRM sequences in place of conventional ones for sagittal examination of the cervical spinal cord of multiple sclerosis patients. The advantages of ΤΙRΜ to reveal the pathology of the cervical spinal cord and the advantage of BLADE sequences to improve image quality should be combined in a sequence that could be ideal for cervical spinal cord examinations. |
| Keywords: | Multiple sclerosis T2-TSE BLADE MRI Lesion identification |
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