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Magnetic resonance, Medical imagiologyAbstract
Várias são as “janelas” da Ressonância Magnética (RM) que hoje têm aplicação na clínica. Servem para fundamentar o diagnóstico (p.e., da encefalopatia microvascular do idoso), o prognóstico (p.e., do declínio cognitivo), a terapêutica (p.e., da desmielinização primária). Com elas também poderemos aceder ao estudo fiável da substância branca aparentemente normal (T2 convencional), o que será importante para prever a evolução. Havendo, agora, uma outra contrastização quantificável – sem T1 nem T2 –, a designação genérica dos métodos será RMq. Duas são as nossas interrogações durante a execução e interpretação da RMq. A primeira, de índole executiva, questiona o enquadramento clínico destes estudos estruturais? De modo isolado ou partilhado? Opinamos que as duas “janelas” da RMq serão complementares e, por isso, de comum aplicação por rotina – transferência da
magnetização (TM) e difusão protónica (D/ADC). Por que as consideramos complementares entre si? Porque cada uma, a seu modo, ou seja, pela interacção da água ligada às macromoléculas, na TM, e pelo movimento molecular activo, na D/ADC, é propícia à medição da estrutura e da neurobiologia. Para ambas, o substrato será a célula com a membrana de mielina e a água, que lhe estará associada. Então, a RMq será uma sonda in vivo para a função.
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