Re:Woman of 24 found to have no cerebellum in her brain
by lostlogin on Thursday September 11, 2014 @02:51PM
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The upper image which I assume is her MRI scan is interesting. It isn't just her cerebellum missing - her brain stem looks odd too. Where is the pons? Where are the cranial nerves attaching? Need more images!
Edit. On closer reading this article isn't great. <<Doctors did a CAT scan and immediately identified the source of the problem – her entire cerebellum was missing (see scan, below left)>>. Assuming it isn't some sort of problem related to me viewing the article on a phone, that image is an MR. No CATs involved.
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Re:Woman of 24 found to have no cerebellum in her brain
by timle on Thursday September 11, 2014 @04:29PM
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? The top image is most definitely from a CAT scan. If it was MR, there would be way more artifact around the eye/nose/throat.
Re:Woman of 24 found to have no cerebellum in her brain
by lostlogin on Thursday September 11, 2014 @06:43PM
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No it isn't. Look at the contrast and the signal from fat and water, look at the tongue. That is a T1 sag.
Edit: Article, or images anyway, appear on multiple sites labeled as MRI. Pretty sure the fuzzy writing says T1 FLAIR on this site. http://io9.com/doctors-discover-a-woman-with-no-cerebellum-1...
Edit 2: Here is another link and the ax T2 is seen at bottom of the images.
Edit 3. The actual journal article. New scientist screwed up didn't didn't read it properly. Patient had a CT then an MRI as per the image label. New Scientist only kept the MRI image as brain MR is way nicer than CT but kept the journal text saying CT.
http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/08/22/bra...