• Clin Neurol Neurosurg · Sep 2014

    Visualization of small veins with susceptibility-weighted imaging for stereotactic trajectory planning in deep brain stimulation.

    • Mehran Mahvash, Ioannis Pechlivanis, Patra Charalampaki, Olav Jansen, and Hubertus Maximilian Mehdorn.
    • Department of Neurosurgery, Clinic of Köln-Merheim, University of Witten-Herdecke, Köln, Germany. Electronic address: mmahvash@yahoo.de.
    • Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2014 Sep 1; 124: 151-5.

    AbstractIntracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is the most significant complication of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS). To prevent ICH, stereotactic contrast enhanced T1-weighted images are used to visualize vessels as source of hemorrhage. Susceptibility-Weighted Imaging (SWI) is an MRI sequence with improved visualization of susceptibility differences between tissues, particularly sensitive for brain veins. The aim of this prospective study was to analyze the utility of SWI compared to contrast enhanced stereotactic T1-weighted images for trajectory planning of DBS. Preoperative SWI was performed in 33 patients undergoing DBS and was compared to the T1-weighted images. Vessels identified only with SWI in relation to the bilateral planned trajectory were analyzed. In all patients vessels were depicted on SWI only within the planned trajectory (range 1-4 vessels, for each trajectory, mean: 2.4). In 6 patients vessels were identified on SWI adjacent to the target (up to 5mm distal from target). In 11 patients SWI visualized additional cortical veins adjacent to the entry point of the trajectory. The apparent diameter of these vessels ranged between 0.8 and 2.1mm (mean: 1.2mm). Postoperative MRI was compared with preoperative SWI and revealed in two patients small (<3 mm) T2 hyperintense lesions along electrodes without correlation with visualized veins. SWI facilitates the visualization of small veins superior to T1-weighted images. However, cerebral veins within the trajectory were not found to be a significant source of ICH after DBS. Potential sources of ICH are mesencephal veins at the endpoint of electrodes which can cause fatal hemorrhage and are visualized with SWI reliably.Copyright © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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