title: Susceptibility-weighted imaging of the pediatric brain.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this article is to present and discuss the susceptibility-weighted imaging signal characteristics of the normal pediatric brain and those of a variety of pediatric brain pathologic abnormalities.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Its high susceptibility for blood products, iron depositions, and calcifications makes susceptibility-weighted imaging an important additional sequence for the diagnostic workup of pediatric brain pathologic abnormalities. Compared with conventional MRI sequences, susceptibility-weighted imaging may show lesions in better detail or with higher sensitivity. Familiarity with the pediatric susceptibility-weighted imaging signal variance is essential to prevent misdiagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Radiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287-0842, USA.
authors.forename: Sylvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Verschuuren
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Poretti
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Buerki
authors.forename: Maarten H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Lequin
authors.forename: Thierry A G M
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Huisman
mesh_terms: D016477:Artifacts; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D012016:Reference Values; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity