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Understanding MRI TactogrAPhy
What is MRI TactogrAPhy?
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Tractography technique that measures the rate of water diffusion between cells to understand and create a map of the body’s internal structures. This test is most commonly used to provide imaging of the brain.
This advanced imaging technique, which provides much more detailed images of the brain than a conventional MRI. It provides detailed images showing small changes in body tissue and blood flow, which makes it an extremely reliable tool for the detection of disease, injury, bleeding, and swelling.
What is MRI TactogrAPhy used for?
- To monitor development of the brain and neurodenerative brain disorders (dementia, alzheimers, parkinsons etc.)
- To diagnose congenital abnormalities like leukodystrophies (destruction of white matter of the brain),
- To find out encephalopathies (brain disease that alters its function) and psychiatric disorders
- To detect any brain tumor and peroperative planning, epilepsy, ischemia, stroke and traumatic brain injury
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