Advanced MRI Techniques for Muscle Imaging. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques can evaluate a wide array of muscle pathologies including acute or chronic muscle injury, musculotendinous response to injury, intramuscular collections and soft tissue masses, and others. In recent years, MRI has played a more important role in muscle disease diagnosis and monitoring. MRI provides excellent spatial and contrast resolution and helps direct optimal sites for muscle biopsy. Whole-body MRI now helps identify signature patterns of muscular involvement in large anatomical regions with relative ease. Quantitative MRI has advanced the evaluation and disease tracking of muscle atrophy and fatty infiltration in entities such as muscular dystrophies. Multivoxel magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) now allows a more thorough, complete evaluation of a muscle of interest without the inherent sampling bias of single-voxel MRS or biopsy. Diffusion MRI allows quantification of muscle inflammation and capillary perfusion as well as muscle fiber tracking.

publication date

  • August 3, 2017

Research

keywords

  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Muscular Diseases

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC5749928

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85026823538

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1055/s-0037-1604007

PubMed ID

  • 28772322

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 21

issue

  • 4