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Fig. 6 | Insights into Imaging

Fig. 6

From: Microbleeds show a characteristic distribution in cerebral fat embolism

Fig. 6

A case representing the starfield pattern of restricted diffusion. MRI scan of an 18-year-old man with a closed displaced fracture of the left femoral shaft after a high velocity motor vehicle accident. Diffusion-weighted MR Image (10000/89; b value, 1000 s/mm2) showing foci of hyperintensities within both centrum ovale (a), and the corresponding ADC map confirming restricted diffusion (b). Published under the permission of G. Bierry and S. Kremer, Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

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