Three-T MRI bolsters diagnosis of focal epilepsy

September 8, 2008 Three-T MRI bolsters diagnosis of focal epilepsy H. A. Abella -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A recent study at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland has confirmed that 3T MRI improves on 1.5T MRI for detecting and characterizing structural brain abnormalities in patients with focal epilepsy. Senior author Dr. Bronwyn E. Hamilton and colleagues evaluated 74 epilepsy cases. Three-T MRI detected the brain abnormalities in 65 patients compared with 55 detected by 1.5T MRI. Three-T MRI accurately characterized lesions in 63 cases, compared with 51 for 1.5T scanning. Findings were published in the September issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

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