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BIOE 220/rad 220 Review session 7. March 13, 2012. What We’ll Cover Today. Discussion of the final review General questions? Common issues on hw , and questions we’ve received Cranial nerve review Time for more questions. Slice Interleaving. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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BIOE 220/RAD 220 REVIEW SESSION 7March 13, 2012
What We’ll Cover Today• Discussion of the final review• General questions?• Common issues on hw, and questions we’ve received• Cranial nerve review• Time for more questions
Slice Interleaving• On the homework, you had a problem where you imported
every 18th frame of some data• Many students thought that we were looking at every 18th frame• If you looked at the other frames, you’d see that they were images
of other slices• During typical scan, we have a TE that is much shorter
than TR• That “dead time” can be used to acquire other slices in Z
• As long as only one slab is excited at a time, we can collect up to floor(TR/TE) slices concurrently
MTT• On the homework, there was a problem about mean transit
time• During lecture, mean transit time was defined as the
average amount of time for blood to flow through a voxel• In the homework, we asked the amount of time to reach
half maximum CBV• If you read Buxton, you’ll find that there are two different
meanings for MTT, used interchangeably and ambiguously• In Greg’s lecture, MTT referred to the amount of time to move
through a voxel• In the homework, MTT referred to the average amount of time for
the bolus to reach the site• Bolus injection occurred at time zero on the HW, which probably should
have been specified explicitly
Using bolus signal change to find CBV
• In the last couple homeworks, we’ve asked you to find the ratio of CBV between two tissues based on the area under the signal deflection
• If the signal remained flat, it would mean that there was no contrast passing through
• By measuring the total effect of the contrast on the signal as it passes through, we infer the amount of contrast that passed through
• This allows us to estimate the relative blood volume for two regions responding to the same bolus, but it does not give us an absolute measure of CBV
How to tell if fat suppressed• As Kim said in class, unless fat suppression is used, fat
will appear bright (or very bright) in each type of MR image• In the head, we see fat outside the skull below the skin
(subcutaneous fat)• In images of the spine, fat will appear under the skin,
posterior to the spine (at the edge of the image)• May also see fat in bone marrow, particularly in older
patients• If you see bright fat under the skin, suppression was not
used, otherwise it was used• Chemical saturation can be used to suppress fat in any of
our sequences, STIR can only get T2 weighting (why?_
How to tell if there is contrast• Look for vessels
• Whenever we discuss MR contrast in class, we’re referring to gadolinium in the vasculature
• If vessels show up very bright, it is usually a contrast image• In the head, superior sagittal sinus showing up bright is an obvious
indication of contrast• Some sequences will use flow of vessels to make them show up
bright. If the rest of the image appears normal but vessels are bright, then contrast was used. If the rest of the image is suppressed, we may be looking at non-contrast enhanced angiography
• In CT, don’t confuse calcified structures (choroid plexus in ventricles, pineal gland) for contrast in vessels
How to Identify Modality - ReviewAre the bones
bright?
Are we seeing a projection, or
a slice?
CT Radiograph
MRI Are CSF and Gray Matter the Same
Brightness?
Is gray matter brighter than white matter?
Proton Density
ProjectionSlice
yes
no
yes
yes
Is CSF very bright?
T2 Spin Echo
yes
no
T1 Weighting
CSF is dark
FLAIR (T2 contrast,
dark CSF)
no
Imaging modality in the spine?• Some people have asked how to recognize the MR imaging
modality in the spine• Easiest landmarks are CSF around spinal cord and fat under
skin• If CSF is bright, we’re T2 weighted, if CSF is dark we have T1
weighting• If fat is bright, no fat suppression was used, if fat is dark then it was
suppressed (either chemical saturation, or STIR)• (As far as I can tell, we don’t use FLAIR on the spine)• If you see bright areas scattered through the image (triangles in lower
vertebra in the homework) then contrast was probably used• If you’re given an axial image of the spine, you should be
able to recognize T1 versus T2 by looking at the gray and white matter in the column• (Unlike in the brain, gray matter inside, white matter outside)
CRANIAL NERVES!!!!!SUPER FUN YAY
Cranial nerves• Olfactory• Optic• Oculomotor• Trochlear• Trigeminal • Abducens
• Facial• Vestibulocochlear• Glossopharyngeal• Vagus• Spinal Accessory• Hypoglossal
Cranial Nerves
Cranial Nerves
Cranial Nerve Function
CN 1 Olfactory Smell
CN 2 Optic Vision (retina to brain!)
CN 3 Oculomotor Eye movement, eyelid, pupillary light reflex
CN 4 Trochlear Superior oblique muscle (eye)
CN 5 Trigeminal Sensory of the face, muscles of mastication
CN 6 Abducens Lateral rectus muscle (eye)
CN 7 Facial Muscles of the face, taste of the anterior 2/3 of the tongue, stapedius inner ear muscle, salivation
CN 8 Vestibulocochlear Inner ear and hearing (balance)
CN 9 Glossopharnygeal Sensory, taste posterior 1/3 of the tongue, salivation, swallowing
CN 10 Vagus Sensory from the pharynx, heart rate, esophagus, swallowing
CN 11 Spinal Accessory Sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscles
CN 12 Hypoglossal Tongue
Eye MusclesPupils equally round and reactive to light and accommodation : PERRLA- CN II and III in tact.
Tongue Muscles• There are many tongue muscles, and CN XII innervates
all of them (except one that is innervated by CN X). • Genioglossus is primarily responsible for sticking your
tongue out. It attaches on the mandible in the center of your chin and joins the rest of the tongue muscles.
Tongue Muscles
Tongue Muscles
CRANIAL NERVE EXAM!• Smell (I), sight (II), eye muscles (III, IV, VI), hearing (VIII),
biting down (V), making faces (VII), neck rotation (XI). • Touch (V), taste (VII, IX), pharyngeal muscles (IX, X),
stick out the tongue (XII)