Unilateral Upper Cervical Cord Infarction: A Report of Two Cases with Mild Neurological Symptoms Accompanying a Small Ischemic Lesion Detected by Brain MRI

Table 1

Summary of MRI protocols examined in our cases.

Parameters	Case 1				Case 2
	DWI coronal	FIESTA axial	FIESTA sagittal	T2WI (spine)	DWI coronal	DWI axial	T2WI axial
Magnetic field strength	3.0 T				3.0 T
Matrix size	288 × 288	512 × 512	1024 × 1024	512 × 512	282 × 282	320 × 320	704 × 704
Field of view	240 mm × 240 mm	160 mm × 160  mm	180 mm × 180 mm	180 mm × 180 mm	240 mm × 240 mm	240 mm × 240 mm	240 mm × 240 mm
Slice thickness (mm)	3	1.6	2	4	3	3	5
Repetition time (ms)	5000	1500	1500	3025	5000	5000	4000
Echo time (ms)	137	256	256	100	137	85	104
b values	1000				1000	1000

DWI, diffusion-weighted image; FIESTA, 3D fast imaging employing steady-state acquisition; T2WI, T2-weighted image.