Sources of variability in computed tomography perfusion: Implications for acute stroke management

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Zussman, Benjamin ^a   Jabbour, Pascal ^b   Talekar, Kiran ^b   Gorniak, Richard ^b   Flanders, Adam E ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; Computed tomography perfusion; Standardization; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; STANDARD; STROKE;

ACUTE DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79958861679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.3.FOCUS1136     Document Type: Article

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