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Advances in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Ultrasound

The first clinical studies using microbubbles and ultrasound for treatment of ischaemic stroke have shown encouraging results.4 Further new...

Are All Gadolinium-based Contrast Agents Similar? The Importance of High Stability, High Relaxivity and High Concentration

Since the original conception and introduction of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) in the 1980s, many such...

Bone-free 3D Computed Tomography Angiography Using an Image-processing Application – Imaging Efficacy for Aneurysms Near the Skull Base and Clipped Cerebral Aneurysms

3D computed tomography angiography (3D CTA) is used to image cerebral aneurysms, steno-occlusive lesion of cerebral vessels and brain...

Brain Perfusion Computed Tomography for the Management of Acute Stroke Patients

Traditionally, stroke had been considered a fateful incident with no existing therapeutic options. However, with the introduction of recombinant...

Computed Tomography Perfusion Maps and Final Infarction with Hyper-acute Stroke Patients Who Achieved Catheter Thrombolysis Therapy

Materials and Methods Plain CT, CTP and CTA were performed on 22 hyper-acute stroke patients who were brought to the emergency room of Wakakusa...

Computer-guided Endoscopic Neurosurgery in the Thoracic Spine

The application of computer-assisted image guidance technology to these surgical procedures allows creation of new methods to address these...

Fluorescent-guided Surgery for High-grade Glioma

Many trials have been published or are under way concerning a variety of new approaches: the selection of patients for chemotherapy based on methyl...

From Normal to Pathological Ageing - The Spectrum of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease

Many tests just indicate norms for a group older than 60 years. In geronto-psychological literature, a differentiation is sometimes made between...

Functional Brain Imaging in Dementia - The Transition from SPECT to PET

Justification of Functional Brain Imaging in the Assessment of Dementia Determining the etiology of dementia has proven to be extremely difficult...

Gadovist in Multiple Sclerosis

As diagnosis using imaging relies on counting the number of demyelinating lesions in the white matter, the presence of enhancing lesions will...

Monitoring Cerebral Blood Flow in Neurosurgical Intensive Care

In neurosurgical practice, monitoring of CBF plays an important role, as the brain depends on continuous blood supply due to its inability to store...

Positron Emission Tomography Imaging in Dementia

Glucose is the main energy supply for the brain. Its metabolism maintains ion gradients and glutamate turnover and is closely coupled to neuronal...

State-of-the-art Therapeutic Strategies in Parkinson's Disease

The cause of the disease is still unknown, but growing evidence suggests that it may be due to a combination of environmental and genetic factors....

Symptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease

Recently completed prospective studies have improved our understanding of the natural history of this disease on medical therapy.The...

Understanding Brain Anatomy in Autism – Findings from Structural Neuroimaging

Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging The development of computed tomography (CT) in the early 1970s was a major breakthrough in clinical brain...

Virtual Reality Technology in Neurosurgery

History3-D neurosurgical planning tools have been available since the 1980s. The combination of difficult and non-digitized image transfer, manual...

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