怀疑急性缺血性脑卒中时,为什么发病初期头颅CT可以完全正常,而MRI弥散加权成像却能早早显示出病灶?
In suspected acute ischemic stroke, why may early head CT appear completely normal while diffusion-weighted MRI already reveals the lesion?
关键在于两种技术感知水分状态的方式不同。脑血管闭塞后数分钟内,缺血细胞能量耗竭发生细胞毒性水肿,水分子扩散受限,在DWI序列上立即呈高亮信号,数小时即可勾勒出梗死核心;CT依赖组织密度差异,超早期梗死区密度尚未改变,常需24小时左右才显影。因此DWI承担超早期定性诊断并支撑溶栓取栓决策,CT则主要负责快速排除脑出血。
The difference comes down to how each modality senses water. Within minutes of vessel occlusion, ischemic cells exhaust their energy supply and develop cytotoxic edema that restricts water diffusion, so the infarct core turns bright on DWI almost immediately and becomes delineated within hours. CT depends on density differences that barely change at onset, often needing around twenty-four hours to become visible. DWI thus anchors hyperacute diagnosis and reperfusion decisions, while CT mainly serves rapid exclusion of intracranial hemorrhage.
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Osborn AG专著《Osborn's Brain: Imaging, Pathology, and Anatomy》第2版,Elsevier 2017
Osborn's Brain: Imaging, Pathology, and Anatomy, 2nd edition, Anne G. Osborn, Elsevier 2017
#急性脑梗死 #弥散加权成像 #磁共振成像
磁共振检查不用X射线,它是怎样把人体内部结构变成图像的?
MRI uses no X-rays, so how does it turn the inside of the body into pictures?
它利用人体内丰富的氢原子核在磁场中的共振来成像。强磁场先让杂乱排列的质子自旋沿磁场方向整齐取向,射频脉冲再把它们激发偏离平衡态;脉冲停止后质子逐步弛豫回位并释放微弱射频信号,各组织含水量与弛豫速度不同,信号强弱随之有别;梯度磁场负责位置编码,计算机据信号重建断层图像,全程无电离辐射。
It relies on resonance of the body's abundant hydrogen nuclei inside a magnetic field. A strong magnet aligns the randomly oriented proton spins; a radiofrequency pulse tips them out of equilibrium, and as they relax back they emit faint RF signals. Because tissues differ in water content and relaxation speed, their signal strengths differ too; gradient fields encode spatial position and a computer reconstructs cross-sectional images - entirely without ionizing radiation.
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教材《The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging》第3版,Bushberg JT等著,Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2012年
The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging, 3rd edition, by J.T. Bushberg et al., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2012
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#磁共振成像 #氢质子 #射频脉冲
拍普通胸片看不出的小肺癌，低剂量螺旋CT为什么能发现？
Why can low-dose spiral CT reveal small lung cancers that an ordinary chest X-ray misses?
因为两者成像原理不同，分辨率差距悬殊。胸片让X射线穿过整个胸腔一次曝光，肺、心脏与肋骨的影子相互重叠，几毫米的小结节会被正常结构掩盖；CT则沿横断面逐层扫描，由计算机重建无重叠的薄层图像，能清晰分辨直径仅几毫米的孤立结节，在肿瘤还局限于局部、可手术根治的阶段就把它查出来。大型筛查试验证实，高危吸烟者接受低剂量CT检查可使肺癌死亡率下降约两成。
The gap stems from how each technique forms images. A chest X-ray exposes the whole thorax at once, so shadows of lung, heart and ribs overlap and hide nodules only a few millimeters wide. CT scans slice by slice and reconstructs thin cross-sections free of overlap, resolving tiny solitary nodules and catching tumors at a still-curably localized stage. A large screening trial showed that low-dose CT in high-risk smokers cuts lung cancer mortality by about twenty percent.
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国家肺癌筛查试验研究组论文《Reduced Lung-Cancer Mortality with Low-Dose Computed Tomographic Screening》，New England Journal of Medicine 2011年，美国国家癌症研究所NCI资助
National Lung Screening Trial Research Team, Reduced Lung-Cancer Mortality with Low-Dose Computed Tomographic Screening, New England Journal of Medicine 2011, funded by NCI
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#低剂量CT #肺癌筛查 #胸部X线平片