Intracranial collateral pathways assessed by contrast-enhanced three-dimensional transcranial color-coded sonography

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1435-1440

  Wessels, Tiemo ^a,b,d   Bozzato, Alessandro ^b   Mull, Michael ^b   Klötzsch, Christof ^b,c  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY GIESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c Kliniken Schmieder Allensbach   (Germany)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 D reconstruction; Cerebral circulation; Collateral pathways; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; COLOR; MORPHOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATIENT MONITORING; SENSORS; ULTRASONICS;

COLLATERAL VESSELS; COLOR-CODED SONOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY (DSA); DUPLEX MACHINE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; GALACTOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; APLASIA; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CELIAC ARTERY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; GREAT BLOOD VESSEL; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TEMPORAL BONE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CIRCLE OF WILLIS; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 10044272178     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2004.05.011     Document Type: Article

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