What can a brain MRI detect?
Disease description:
Recently, during a medical check-up at the hospital, I noticed an area labeled as "Brain MRI Examination." I would like to ask, what can a brain MRI detect?
Doctor's answer (1)
Dr. Lv Zhiqin
Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive and highly effective medical diagnostic technique that uses powerful magnetic fields and radio waves, combined with computer processing, to produce detailed images of the brain. This examination clearly visualizes the structure of brain tissue and can detect the following conditions:
1. Neurological diseases: such as tumors, stroke, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and Alzheimer's disease.
2. Vascular abnormalities: such as aneurysms and vascular malformations; MRI can identify abnormal dilatations of blood vessels within the brain.
3. Infections and inflammation: encephalitis and meningitis, where MRI can reveal inflammatory changes in brain tissue. Brain abscesses: MRI helps in locating and assessing the size and position of abscesses within the brain.
4. Congenital abnormalities: developmental brain anomalies, such as lissencephaly and schizencephaly. Craniofacial malformations: MRI provides detailed visualization of the skull and facial bone structures.
5. Head trauma: such as cerebral contusions and concussions.
6. Conditions such as cerebral infarction, intracerebral hemorrhage, brain tumors, encephalitis, cerebral atrophy, and hydrocephalus.
