MRI of the head

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Brain

Lobes of the brain

MRI scans

Nuclear magnetic resonance - cranial; Magnetic resonance imaging - cranial; Head MRI scan; MRI - cranial; NMR - cranial; Cranial MRI

The sensitivity of an MRI depends, in part, on the experience of the radiologist.

An MRI of the head may reveal disorders including:

• Primary brain tumors
• Metastatic brain tumors
• Structural abnormalities of the brain, brain ventricles, and pituitary gland
• Pituitary masses
• Lesions or masses (any location)
• Acoustic neuroma
• Optic glioma
• Arteriovenous malformations of the head
• Brain aneurysms
• Damage to basal ganglia (an area of the brain that regulates movement)
• Subdural hematoma , blood clots
• Intracranial hemorrhage (more than 48 hours old)
• Radiation damage to the brain
• Brain swelling
• Demyelinating diseases
• Tissue destruction in the brain
• Brain abscess
• Abnormalities of blood flow (such as carotid artery stenosis)

• Acromegaly
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
• Throat cancer
• Chronic subdural hematoma
• Cushing's syndrome
• Deep intracerebral hemorrhage
• Delirium
• Dementia
• Dementia due to metabolic causes
• Diabetes insipidus; central
• Hemorrhagic (bleeding) stroke
• Huntington's disease
• Hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage
• Hypopituitarism
• Intracerebral hemorrhage
• Lobar intracerebral hemorrhage
• Melanoma of the eye
• Meniere's disease
• Multi-infarct dementia
• Multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) I
• Multiple sclerosis
• Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH)
• Partial (focal) seizure
• Partial complex seizure
• Petit mal seizure
• Pituitary Cushing's (Cushing's disease)
• Prolactinoma
• Reye's syndrome
• Senile cerebral amyloid angiopathy
• Senile dementia/Alzheimer's type
• Acute sinusitis
• Chronic sinusitis
• Stroke
• Stroke secondary to atherosclerosis
• Stroke secondary to cardiogenic embolism
• Stroke secondary to FMD
• Stroke secondary to syphilis
• Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) syndrome
• Toxoplasmosis
• Transient ischemic attack (TIA)
• Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
• Wilson's disease

Review Date: 10/25/2006
Reviewed By: Stuart Bentley-Hibbert, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.