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Introduction to Neuroimaging G. Hathout, M.D. Professor, UCLA Dept of Radiology Division of Neuroradiology, West LA VA

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Introduction to Neuroimaging. G. Hathout, M.D. Professor, UCLA Dept of Radiology Division of Neuroradiology, West LA VA. Acknowledgements: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Introduction to Neuroimaging

G. Hathout, M.D.Professor, UCLA Dept of RadiologyDivision of Neuroradiology, West LA VA

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Acknowledgements:

While most of the slides are mine, I have liberally borrowed slides from the Web to enhance this presentation. I would like to gratefully acknowledge those sources, and to apologize if any have been inadvertently overlooked.

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http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~mueller/teaching/cse377/mriPhysics.pdf

http://hsc.uwe.ac.uk/radscience/MRI/MRI_Physics.pdf

http://www.mri.tju.edu/phys-web/1-T1_05_files/frame.htm

http://www.biac.duke.edu/education/courses/fall03/fmri/handouts/W5_Physics_2003.ppt#256,1,Principles of MRI Physics and Engineering

Acknowledgements, cont’d

UC San Diego Neuroradiology Learning Files, Dr. Hesselink.

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56 y.o. patient, nearly comatose, not moving left side. Diagnosis ?

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Neuroradiology:The Old Days!

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Introduction to CT (ComputerAssisted Tomography).Neuroimaging’s first big step:-image in slices-avoid superposition of structures

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CT generates images by taking numerous 2D projections and mathematicallyreconstructing them to make a planar image.

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Impact CT scan

Rotating X-ray tube and detector array allows multiple projections at different angles.

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The projections can be reconstructed in a number of ways, such asfiltered back projection, or using Fourier methods, to form an image.

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Each image is made of pixels (picture elements), typically 256 x 256.Each pixel is given a shade of gray, corresponding to its linear attenuationcoefficient u. CT (Hounsfield) numbers can be generated from this.

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The added information of CT comes at a high price: big radiation doses!

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Hounsfield Units

White matter: 28Gray matter: 34CSF: 4Fat: -87Bone: 733

Some actual Hounsfield unit measurements from the scanner – by assigning a CTnumber to each pixel, CT can make a planar image with good contrast and no overlap!

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Gray matter is about 6 HU higher than white matter (therefore slightly brighter on CT).

- Gray matter contains more water and less fat than white matter- This means about 8% more oxygen and 8% less carbon- This leads to a slightly higher electron density (O : 16 vs. C :12) - This, in turn, leads to higher linear x-ray attenuation

Remember: The higher the electron density, the higher the linear x-ray attenuation coefficient u. The higher u, the higher the CT number (HU or Hounsfiled unit). The higher the HU, the brighter something looks on CT.

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Now, back to our patient. What’s wrong?

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Can you see better now?

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We’ve come a long way!

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What CT can show:

Images can be windowed differently. On “bone” windows,we can distinguish metal from bone.

For example, this man decided to stop a bullet with his head.

Notice that on bone windows,the brain detail is lost.

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Scans show a lentiform hyperdense extra-axial collection pressing on theright cerebral hemisphere (your left, the patient’s right), diagnostic of an epidural hematoma.

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There is significant mass effect on the lateral ventricles and midline shift.

On bone windows, the hematoma seems to disappear (brain detail is lost), butwe can now appreciate the fracture (arrow) which has lacerated the… (fill in the blank).

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Which patient is normal?

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The patient on your right has blood in the subarachnoid spaces. What is the leadingcause of atraumatic subarachnoid bleed?

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Baby with big head. Diagnosis?

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The ventricles are too big = Hydrocephalus.Notice – the aqueduct of Sylvius is missing (arrow). Diagnosis: Congenital aqueductal stenosis.

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Contrast (iodinated compound) can be added to CT. In areas of pathology, it leaksout of a damaged blood-brain barrier. Notice that normal brain does not enhance.

Patient has a deep ring-enhancing lesion with surrounding edema, seen only aftercontrast. Diagnosis: abscess versus tumor (metastatic or primary).

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Now, on to the star of neuroimaging: Magnetic ResonanceImaging, a.k.a. MRI

MR is a method of mapping hydrogen protons. It not only reflects proton density (likeCT reflects electron density), but also reflects magnetic properties of hydrogen protons.This means …. Better tissue contrast!

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MRI Imaging in 3 Easy Steps:

1. Establish equilibrium2. Disturb Equilibrium3. Allow protons to return to equilibrium

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At equilibrium, the multiple hydrogen protons oriented “parallel,” and “anti-parallel,” to the magnetic field produce a state of net verticalmagnetization (Mz), but no horizontal magnetization (Mxy = 0).

****Key Point:

At equilibrium, there isa net vertical magnetization, but no horizontal magnetization.

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The equilibrium is disturbed by radiofrequency pulses which destroy the verticalmagnetization Mz and create a horizontal magnetization Mxy. It is this horizontalmagnetization Mxy that produces the signal that makes the MR image.

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After the RF pulse stops, the system returns to equilibrium.

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T1 and T2 are time constants that measure the speed at which various proton populations return to equilibrium.

The T1 time of a tissue reflects how quickly vertical magnetization recovers in that tissue. T1 weighted imagesreflect the relative T1 times of different tissues.

The T2 time reflects how quickly horizontal magnetization disappears in that tissue. T2 weighted images reflect the relative T2 times of different tissues.

Important: definition of T1 and T2.

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Solid tissue has a SHORTER T1 time than free water, so it recovers its longitudinalmagnetization faster.

Therefore, it has a higher signal than water on T1 weighted images.

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For example, pure fat has a shorter T1 time (recovers longitudinal magnetizationfaster) than white matter, so it is brighter on a T1 weighted image.

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Water has a longer T2 time than solid tissue (loses transverse magnetizationmore slowly), so it is brighter on a T2 weighted image.

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Pure water has a longer T2 time than gray matter, so it is brighter (has a higherMR signal) on a T2 weighted image.

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Take home message:

*On T1 weighted images, tissues with SHORTER T1 times are brighter.

*On T2 weighted images, tissues with LONGER T2 times are brighter.

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Some representative T1 and T2 times of various tissues(measured in milliseconds)

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-Fat has a short T1 time, and water has a long T1 time, so scalp fat is bright and CSFis dark on a T1 weighted image.

-Water has a long T2 time, so CSF is bright on a T2 weighted image.

-White matter (myelinated) has more fat and less water than gray matter

-Therefore, on a T1 weighted image, white matter is brighter than gray matter,while on a T2 weighted image, white matter is darker than gray matter.

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The ability to reflect T1 and T2 times of protons gives much more tissue contrastthan just being able to reflect the relative proton density (as in the bland proton density or PD image on the far right, which has very little tissue contrast).

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The benefits of contrast resolution!

Diagnosis?

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Hypoplastic cerebellar vermis leads toan in utero diagnosis of Dandy-Walkermalformation!

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Getting better with age!

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Another benefit of MR: no ionizing radiation!

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MR’s multiplanar capability

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Anything missing? (Patient on your left, control on right)

The benefits of multiplanar imaging

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Patient is missing his corpus callosum.Diagnosis: Agenesis of the corpus callosum

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Guess the weighting

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T1 weighted MR images of a child – little obvious pathology visible.

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After contrast administration, numerous ring enhancing abscesses are visible at the base of the brain.Diagnosis: CNS tuberculosis. Teaching point: Utility of gadolinium contrast in MRI.

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42 year old with headache

(Slide 1)

Ring enhancing lesions in right parietal lobe with edema. Ddx: abscess vs. tumor

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Lesion is bright on DWI diffusion-weightedimage (bottom left), and dark on ADC (bottom right).Diagnosis: Brain abscess.

Teaching point: MR can reach into yet more tissue parameters, such as water diffusion, to be even more specific. Abscess is bright on DWI, while tumor is dark, although both are ring-enhancing lesions on conventional MRI.

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Ring enhancing lesion, just like the last case, but this time dark on DWI (bottom right), and bright on ADC (bottom left). Opposite to the previous case, there is no restricted diffusion here.

Diagnosis: Necrotic tumor.

Teaching point: Diffusion weighted MRIallows even greater tissue characterization.

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PET -- aka Positron Emission Tomography: The world of metabolic imaging

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List of elemental isotopes that are positron emitters andcan be used for PET imaging.

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Whole body FDG PET image.

Notice how hypermetabolic the brain is compared to the rest of the body.

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PET shows a very hypermetabolic nodulein the right upper lobe of this patient’s lung,nonspecific on CT (above), but diagnosed as a malignancy based on PET hypermetabolism(right).

Teaching point: PET is very useful in cancer imaging.

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FDG PET Scan: Patient with movement disorderand normal MRI

Patient Normal Control

A B

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2

3

The PET scans of our patient show absent flourordeoxyglucose uptake in the striatum. The normal control shows uptake in the caudate (arrow 1) and putamen (arrow 2), not present in our patient. Both patients show uptake in the thalami (arrow 3). Diagnosis: Huntington’s disease.

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Teaching point: Don’t do drugs!

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CT scan:

Abnormalities hard to detect.

Just how amazing is MRI ?

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T2 weighted MRI, on right, shows obvious bilateral subdural hygromas pushing on the brain. Hard to see on CT because they have similar electron density to brain, easy to see on MR because they have a different T2 time.

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CT with only very subtlefindings.

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MR of the same patient, obtained just after the CT, shows an obvious large left MCA stroke with tissue edematoo subtle to be easily detectable on CT.

MR can also obtain completely non-invasive angiographic pictures, which show occlusion of the left ICA.

CCA

ICA

Vert

Right Left

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33 yo in status epilepticus

CT without obviousabnormality.

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FLAIR

T2

MRI shows abnormal tissue edema in the left mesial temporal lobe, too subtle for CT, essentially pathognomonic for Herpes encephalitis.