Image of the Month

Eleven months after experiencing major damage to the right side of his head in a car crash, a young man developed headaches, each lasting 2–3 hours. He was referred for an MRI to look for hydrocephalus and hygroma. The conventional T2-weighted, gradient-echo sequence MR imaging hinted at a possible bleed in the left front brain. To see how susceptibility-weighted imaging improves diagnosis, see Image of the Month, page 20.