A brain MRI cannot detect microscopic brain injuries, early stage cancers or bone.
Although a brain MRI is great for visualizing soft tissues, bleeding, some brain tumors and structural abnormalities but it can't detect everything.
Brain MRIs cannot always detect cancer, especially if the tumors are small and the cancer is in it's early stage and sometimes MRIs may provide unclear images of certain things in the brain which can be hard to read and find any problems.
The conditions that a brain MRI can detect are structural abnormalities, bleeding in the brain, infections, traumatic brain injuries, strokes, multiple sclerosis and brain tumors.
A brain MRI can also detect degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
Common conditions which are diagnosed with a brain MRI are stroke, brain tumors, traumatic brain injuries, multiple sclerosis, infections, bleeding, dementia, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, dementia and even Epilepsy.
A brain MRI can help the doctor assess any brain changes that are associated with Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
A brain MRI can also hep to identify any structural changes in your brain which can indicate you have dementia.
A brain MRI can also reveal and show any aneurysms which are bulges in blood vessels and even hydrocephalus which is fluid buildup in your brain and any other structural issues.
A brain MRI can also show and identify any subdural hematomas and subarachnoid hemorrhages and any other types of bleeding in the brain.
Brain abscesses and meningitis can also be detected in a brain MRI and an MRI can also show lesions or areas of damage in your brain and spinal cord which can indicate that you have multiple sclerosis and can also help to show any progression of the multiple sclerosis.
MRI of the brain can also detect cancerous and non cancerous tumors of the brain and also show their size, location and type.
A brain MRI can also identify any ischemic strokes that are caused by blocked blood vessels and hemorrhagic strokes that are caused by bleeding in the brain.