Imaging of Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations and Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas

Neurosurgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 27-42

  Mossa Basha, Mahmud ^a   Chen, James ^b   Gandhi, Dheeraj ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced imaging; Arteriovenous malformation; Computed tomography; Dural arteriovenous fistula; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CROSS SECTIONAL IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DURAL ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; TIME OF FLIGHT MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; TIME RESOLVED MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL VEINS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 81855192694     PISSN: 10423680     EISSN: 15581349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nec.2011.09.007     Document Type: Review

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