Postoperative changes in SPECT-rCBF in hydrocephalus

Acta Neurochirurgica, Supplementum

Volumn , Issue 95, 2005, Pages 169-172

  Piechnik, S K ^a,b   Hultin, L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

Author keywords

disability score system; Hydrocephalus; image processing; single Photon Emission Computerised Tomography; surgery outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85052610385     PISSN: 00651419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-211-32318-X_36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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