Neuro 🧠

Introduction to brain MRI:

There are 3 possible views of MRI, axial, coronal and sagittal.

There are also two main MRI views/sequences:

T1: better shows anatomy of soft tissues in the body

T2: more accurately show composition and placement of water molecules in tissues, highlighting cysts, fluids and swelling.

Here is an example of T2 MRI (With labels of different sections of the brain):

Here's an example of a normal vs abnormal brain tissue:

In next week's post, we will be exploring the effect of dementia shown in brain MRI!