Matteo Foschi, Angelo Galante, Raffaele Ornello, Stefano Necozione, Carmine Marini, Mario Muselli, Paola Olimpia Achard, Luciano Fratocchi, Sergio Lucio Vinci, Marco Cavallaro, Mauro Silvestrini, Gabriele Polonara, Simona Marcheselli, Laura Straffi, Marco Colasurdo, Luca Sorrentino, Enrico Franconi, Marcello Alecci, Massimo Caulo, Simona Sacco
INTRODUCTION: Fast and accurate diagnosis of acute stroke is crucial to timely initiate reperfusion therapies. Conventional high-field (HF) MRI yields the highest accuracy in discriminating early ischaemia from haemorrhages and mimics. Rapid access to HF-MRI is often limited by contraindications or unavailability. Low-field (LF) MRI (<0.5T) can detect several types of brain injury, including ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke. Implementing LF-MRI in acute stroke care may offer several advantages, including extended applicability, increased safety, faster administration, reduced staffing and costs...
January 31, 2024: BMJ Open