background: carbon monoxide (co) poisoning may lead to hypoxic/anoxic injury and eventually ischemic encephalopathy. magnetic resonance imaging (mri) has a well-recognized role in assessment of the severity of brain damage caused by co poisoning. in this study, we aimed to present and analyze the structural abnormalities in the brain mri and especially in diffusion weighted mri (dwi) images in ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Diffuse cerebral anoxia is a devastating event, and its acute findings, as revealed by conventional MR imaging and CT scanning, may be subtle. We analyzed diffusion-weighted and conventional MR images of patients with diffuse cerebral anoxia to determine their usefulness in establishing the diagnosis during the acute period and in determining the age of insult. METHODS ...

MR diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) of the brain and spine provides a unique tool for both visualizing directionality and assessing intactness of white matter fiber tracts in vivo. At the spatial resolution of clinical MRI, much of primate white matter is composed of interdigitating fibers. Analyses based on an assumed single diffusion tensor per voxel yield important information about the averag...