MRI of the inferior alveolar nerve and lingual nerve—anatomical variation and morphometric benchmark values of nerve diameters in healthy subjects

• Published in: Clinical Oral Investigations Vol. 24; no. 8; pp. 2625 - 2634
• Main Authors: Burian, Egon, Probst, Florian A., Weidlich, Dominik, Cornelius, Carl-Peter, Maier, Lisa, Robl, Teresa, Zimmer, Claus, Karampinos, Dimitrios C., Ritschl, Lucas M., Probst, Monika
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Science and Business Media LLC 01.08.2020; Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Anesthesia; Benchmarking; Dentistry; Feasibility studies; Healthy Volunteers; Humans; Lingual Nerve; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Mandible; Mandibular canal; Mandibular Nerve; Medicine; Netherlands; Original Article; Spatial discrimination; Trigeminal Nerve Injuries; Visualization; Preoperative diagnostics; Lingual nerve; MRI; Inferior alveolar nerve; Imaging

Objective Since MRI using dedicated imaging sequences has recently shown promising results in direct visualization of the inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) and the lingual nerve (LN) with high spatial resolution, the aim of this study was to generate suitable standard specifications to reliably depict t...