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Ann Thorac Surg 2002;73:S367
© 2002 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
1 Department of Radiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
2 Department of Medical Engineering, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
3 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
4 Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a common clinical imaging tool for the evaluation of the wide spectrum of brain disorders and injuries, including postsurgical brain injury related to ischemia. Conventional and advanced MRI techniques offer the ability not only to image the sequellae of injury but also to identify some factors that may result in increased risk of brain injury from embolic and hypoperfusion events resulting from surgical cardiac intervention. Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) is a powerful newer technique that allows for
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