Noninvasive Assessment of Intracranial Pressure Status in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Using Displacement Encoding with Stimulated Echoes (DENSE) MRI: A Prospective Patient Study with Contemporaneous CSF Pressure Correlation.

Amit M Saindane Deqiang Qiu John N Oshinski Nancy J Newman Valerie Biousse Beau B Bruce J F Holbrook B M Dale Xiaodong Zhong

Published in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2017)

This study establishes a relationship between pontine displacement from DENSE MR imaging and measured pressure obtained contemporaneously by lumbar puncture, providing a method to noninvasively assess intracranial pressure status in idiopathic intracranial hypertension.

Keyphrases

blood pressure
optic nerve
magnetic resonance imaging
contrast enhanced
computed tomography