Visual grading system for vasospasm based on perfusion CT imaging: Comparisons with conventional angiography and quantitative perfusion CT

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 163-170

  Wintermark, Max ^a   Dillon, William P ^a   Smith, Wade S ^a   Lau, Benison C ^a   Chaudhary, Saadia ^a   Liu, Songling ^a   Yu, Melissa ^a   Fitch, Melissa ^a   Chien, Jeffrey D ^a   Higashida, Randall T ^a   Ko, Nerissa U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital subtraction angiography; Perfusion CT; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INSULA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CINEANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERFUSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 49949114019     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000139664     Document Type: Article

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