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Identification of individual cranial nerves and complete exclusion of tumor in the internal auditory canal may be difficult with MR, especially in imperfectly positioned patients. MR studies of the temporal bones in patients and in normal volunteers positioned non-rotated or canted were correlated with corresponding cryomicrotomic sections. Especially in axial images, oblique sectioning of cranial nerves VII and VIII may cause difficulty in identifying individual nerves. A combination of axial and coronal short TR and TE images can be used to confidently exclude intracanalicular tumor in most cases.
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Daniels, D.L., Czervionke, L.F., Yu, S. et al. The effect of patient positioning on MR imaging of the internal auditory canal. Neuroradiology 30, 395–398 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00404104
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