magnetic resonance neuroimaging (brain & brainstem)

Indications

• structural brain disease or brainstem disease (MRI is the imaging modality of choice)
  • primary brain tumor, metastatic brain tumor
  • meningeal tumors
  • acoustic neuromas
  • pituitary tumors
  • cerebral hemorrhage
  • cerebral ischemia detected within a few hours of vascular occlusion
  • neurodegenerative disease
    • multiple sclerosis
    • amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    • Alzheimer's disease
    • basal ganglia disease
    • Parkinson's disease & other movement disorders
    • frontotemporal dementia
    • Creutzfeld-Jakob disease
    • leukodystrophy
  • hydrocephalus
  • pseudobulbar palsy
  • radiation injury
  • disorders in special circumstances
    • genetic disease of the central nervous system
    • extrapyramidal sign
    • stiff man syndrome
    • autonomic dysfunction

More general terms

• magnetic resonance imaging (MRI, diffusion-weighted MRI)
• neuroimaging

More specific terms

• CNS magnetic resonance imaging
• magnetic resonance neurography