Brain Injury Law Blog : Head Injury : Coma : Las Vegas Nevada Lawyer Tim Titolo

I am a firm believer in the use of Tesla 3 MRI machines for the detection of microscopic lesions on the brain.  While Tesla 3 MRI has been around for use in detecting such lesions from brain injury, the technology is frequently overlooked. 

In my practice I see neurologists hired by worker's compensation and insurance companies citing the "normal" results of MRI in mild and moderate brain injury cases in their effort to show the patient is faking injury.  While this is statistically consistent - that normal MRI is found in mild and moderate cases - the use of Tesla 3 MRI digs deeper, so to speak, to reveal the microscopic changes in the brain.  This helps not only the lawyer trying to prove a case, but the medical provider in diagnosing and treating a patient.

I found this recent article supporting Tesla 3 MRI. "Reports outline magnetic resonance imaging study results from University of Bonn." Science Letter. NewsRX. 2009. HighBeam Research. 21 Oct. 2009 <http://www.highbeam.com>.

In this recent report published in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, researchers in Bonn, Germany conducted a study "To evaluate the feasibility of automatic planning and scanning of brain MR imaging (MRI) protocols on a clinical 3 Tesla system in tumor patients before and after neurosurgical intervention. Twenty-nine patients with intra-axial lesions were examined with automated planscan software pre- and postoperatively."

The researchers concluded: "These results are promising to minimize interscan variability in longitudinal studies."

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Led by A/Prof Gary Egan, the Neuroimaging group at the Howard Florey Institute said that his group was using one of the most powerful Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners in the world - an ultra-high field 7 Tesla - to help develop the new brain mapping technology.

In a ground-breaking move, researchers at the Howard Florey Institute in Melbourne are developing a new technology to create individualised brain maps that will change the way disease is diagnosed, and will also enhance the accuracy of brain surgery.

Right now, researchers and neurosurgeons use coarse maps of the brain's structure that are based on a small number of individuals' brains after death. But these maps fail to show differences that can occur between people's brains.

This new brain mapping technology will be created by developing acquisition and analysis processes and software that will offer microscopic level investigation of individual brains.

In this project, Florey researchers are contributing neuroscience, engineering and mathematical expertise, while collaborators from the Neuroscience Research Institute in South Korea are providing the equipment.

The researchers are hoping that this technology will become widely available in the next two to three years.

Led by A/Prof Gary Egan, the Neuroimaging group at the Howard Florey

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