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MDCT in Neuro-Vascular Imaging

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Multislice CT

Part of the book series: Medical Radiology ((Med Radiol Diagn Imaging))

Abstract

New generations of multi detector row CT (MDCT) scanners offer previously unparalleled options in neurovascular imaging. Comprehensive stroke imaging with MDCT now usually includes perfusion CT and CT angiography. Modern techniques moreover also enable the retrieval of dynamic CT-angiographic data from the perfusion CT, if a perfusion of the entire brain is performed. Occlusions of the basilar artery can usually be readily diagnosed in the CT angiography. CT angiography of the cervicocranial arteries also allows to assess the degree of carotid artery stenoses and of possible intracranial stenoses. Newer scanner types lead to increasing sensitivity and specificity parameters for detecting intracranial aneurysm. Cerebrovenous thromboses can be diagnosed with a venous CT angiography of the brain. Even thromboses of small bridging and internal cerebral veins can usually be readily discerned.

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  1. Department of Clinical Radiology, University of Munich Hospitals, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Marchioninistrasse 15, 81377, Munich, Germany

    Dominik Morhard & Birgit B. Ertl-Wagner

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  1. Munich University Hospital, Institute of Clinical Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Marchioninistr. 15, 81377, Munich, Germany

    Maximilian F. Reiser , C.R. Becker  & Konstantin Nikolaou ,  & 

  2. School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, 1201 Welch Road, 94304, Palo Alto, CA, USA

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Morhard, D., Ertl-Wagner, B. (2009). MDCT in Neuro-Vascular Imaging. In: Reiser, M., Becker, C., Nikolaou, K., Glazer, G. (eds) Multislice CT. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33125-4_10

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