INTRAOPERATIVE MRI

Among the MRI neuro clinical applications, MRI spectroscopy 15 is the most important one in presence of brain masses. It can with confidence tell if the lesion is an abscess, lymphoma, active multiple sclerosis lesion, grade of malignancy of the brain tumors. 12 It is useful tool before surgery, that when the patient coming with report as having brain tumor, to end with an abscess. It is useful even during surgery to differentiate the tumor residual from hematoma due to surgical intervention. Even with strict hemostasis, when you send the patient to the MRI some amount of hematoma accumulate, and SWI and spectroscopy can help in the nature of the residual... The extent of resection is an important predictor of prognosis in children with medulloblastoma, ependymoma, and high-grade glioma.[1,9,11] Traditionally, this has led to reoperation following early postsurgical scan. IoMRI now provides the opportunity to identify cases where the surgical aim has not been met and extended..

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