Reliability in detection of hemorrhage in acute stroke by a new three‐dimensional gradient recalled echo susceptibility‐weighted imaging technique compared to computed tomography: A retrospective study

PURPOSE: To compare the sensitivity of magnetic resonance (MR) susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) with conventional MR sequences and computed tomography (CT) in the detection of hemorrhage in an acute infarct. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A series of 84 patients suspected of having acute strokes had both CT and MR imaging (MRI) scans with diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and SWI. The SWI sequence is a new high-resolution three-dimensional (3D) …