William A Mehan, R Gilberto González, Bradley R Buchbinder, John W Chen, William A Copen, Rajiv Gupta, Joshua A Hirsch, George J Hunter, Scott Hunter, Jason M Johnson, Hillary R Kelly, Mykol Larvie, Michael H Lev, Stuart R Pomerantz, Otto Rapalino, Sandra Rincon, Javier M Romero, Pamela W Schaefer, Vinil Shah
BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: Patients with neurologic complaints are imaged with MRI protocols that may include many pulse sequences. It has not been documented which sequences are essential. We assessed the diagnostic accuracy of a limited number of sequences in patients with new neurologic complaints. METHODS: 996 consecutive brain MRI studies from patients with new neurological complaints were divided into 2 groups. In group 1, reviewers used a 3-sequence set that included sagittal T1-weighted, axial T2-weighted fluid-attenuated inversion recovery, and axial diffusion-weighted images...
2014: PloS One