What are the best MRI machines used for TN/ATN in the US called? Is one Fiesta and the other something else?
Thanks proactive. I heard from a TN friend that Dr Mark Linskey from UC Irvine Health in California started using something with the word over in it? Something like "____over" or "____over" is in the name? I might be wrong and she doesn't remember. She had a Fiesta MRI done 2 years ago at John Hopkins but Dr Linskey said he now uses something else. Was wondering what it was to see if it was available in OH.
FIESTA is a special procedure (Fast Imaging Employing Steady-state Acquisition), not a machine. In the best case, it generates a resolution of about 0.6 mm for the region closest to the brain stem. There are also variations in magnetic field strength between various machine configurations. See http://mri-q.com/fiesta-v-fiesta-c.html
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So is the FIESTA procedure the best thing out there to that might help locate an abnormal trigeminal nerve in the head for a MVD?
Richard A. "Red" Lawhern said:
FIESTA is a special procedure (Fast Imaging Employing Steady-state Acquisition), not a machine. In the best case, it generates a resolution of about 0.6 mm for the region closest to the brain stem. There are also variations in magnetic field strength between various machine configurations. See http://mri-q.com/fiesta-v-fiesta-c.html
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Generally speaking, yes, FIESTA MRA is considered to be a standard against many other kinds of imaging are sometimes compared. But you need also to understand that absence of evidence that there is a compression even in the best imaging you can get is not a basis for denying MVD to a patient whose symptoms are dominated by those of classic TN. The primary usefulness of all MRI is to eliminate causes other than vascular compression (tumor, AVM, Angioma, calcium deposits, MS lesions, etc). Diagnosis is based on patient history and symptom patterns, not MRI
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Tracks said:
So is the FIESTA procedure the best thing out there to that might help locate an abnormal trigeminal nerve in the head for a MVD?
Richard A. "Red" Lawhern said:FIESTA is a special procedure (Fast Imaging Employing Steady-state Acquisition), not a machine. In the best case, it generates a resolution of about 0.6 mm for the region closest to the brain stem. There are also variations in magnetic field strength between various machine configurations. See http://mri-q.com/fiesta-v-fiesta-c.html
Regards