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Assessing Cortical Cerebral Microinfarcts on High Resolution MR Images
Published on: November 20, 2015
MR imaging visualization of the cerebral microvasculature: a comparison of live and postmortem studies at 8 T
Roger A Dashner1, Donald W Chakeres, Allahyar Kangarlu
1Department of Radiology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
AJNR. American Journal of Neuroradiology
|October 17, 2003
Abstract
Summary:
In this study, we compared 8-T gradient-echo MR images of the microvasculature in the live human brain with images of the unembalmed and embalmed postmortem brain. Small vessels were well visualized in the live brain and even better seen in the unembalmed postmortem brain, but they could not be visualized in the embalmed postmortem brain. These findings are important for direct comparisons of the microvasculature on 8-T MR images and on histologic sections.

