Visualization of symmetric striatopallidodentate calcinosis by using a high-resolution susceptibility-weighted MR sequence

Purpose: Intracranial calcifications are routinely verified with computed tomography as high-density areas. In the diagnosis of intracerebral calcinosis, conventional MR sequences show inhomogeneous and individually varied signal changes. Furthermore, the quantification of intracerebral calcinosis is often inaccurate and undersized calcifications are usually overlooked. Otherwise MRI frequently proves to be the first diagnostic technique in the case of emergency, especially for the diagnosis of cerebral ischemia. Our study demonstrates the feasibility of high-resolution gradient-echo-phase images for the detecti…