Suitability of temporal bone acoustic window: Conventional TCD versus transcranial color-coded duplex sonography

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 311-314

  Krejza, Jaroslaw ^a,b   Swiat, Maciej ^a,c   Pawlak, Mikolaj A ^a,b   Oszkinis, Grzegorz ^b   Weigele, John ^a   Hurst, Robert W ^a   Kasner, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cerebral arteries; Temporal bone; Transcranial Doppler; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RACE DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL BONE; TRANSCRANIAL COLOR CODED DUPLEX SONOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPORAL BONE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 34748838971     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2007.00117.x     Document Type: Article

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