Advantages of extended brain perfusion computed tomography: 9.6 cm coverage with time resolved computed tomography-angiography in comparison to standard stroke-computed tomography

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 363-369

  Morhard, Dominik ^a   Wirth, Christina D ^a   Fesl, Gunther ^a   Schmidt, Caroline ^a   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a   Becker, Christoph R ^a   Ertl Wagner, Birgit ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

(MeSH); cerebral angiography; computed tomography; perfusion; stroke

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN PERFUSION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTIGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77954088558     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181e1956f     Document Type: Article

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