Archive for the ‘Imaging Protocols and Techniques’ Category

Open letter in response to NYT article from July 31, 2010 “The Radiation Boom After Stroke Scans, Patients Face Serious Health Risks” By WALT BOGDANICH

Posted on August 4th, 2010 by Max Wintermark, UVA | 185 views

posted by Michael H. Lev and Max Wintermark Every year in the United States, more than three quarters of a million people have a stroke, and approximately every 3 minutes someone dies from a stroke. [...]

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CT head – what slice thickness do you use?

Posted on November 12th, 2009 by Daniel Scoffings, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 715 views

Until recently we have been scanning routine CT heads using a sequential technique with 5 mm slices through the posterior fossa and 10 mm slices of the supratentorial compartment. With a change of machines the [...]

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Radiation Dose in Neuroradiology: New Special Collection and Podcast

Posted on November 11th, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 601 views

By now most Neuroradiologists are aware of the US Food and Drug Administration notification regarding dangerous levels of radiation exposure produced in one facility while performing CT perfusion. This unfortunate event has been front page [...]

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The microcirculation in the “target node“ as outcome prognosticator: facts and implications

Posted on October 30th, 2009 by Sotirios Bisdas, Neuroradiology, University of Tuebingen | 622 views

In the recent paper of Kim et al. [1], the authors attempt for first time to examine the relationship between pharmacokinetic parameters, obtained by dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE)-MRI, of a metastatic target node and treatment outcome [...]

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Brachial plexus MRI protocol

Posted on September 16th, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 2,014 views

BP MRI Protocol Fall is upon us and so is the lecturing season! Like years before, this Fall I will be giving my brachial plexus lecture several times and the most commonly asked question by [...]

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CT Cisternogram

Posted on February 22nd, 2009 by merita bania, tbh | 1,387 views

I would like to know how much intrathecal contrast to inject for a CT cisternogram via a lumbar puncture approach. I am not sure.

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Neuro Protocols

Posted on February 2nd, 2009 by Richard Wiggins, University of Utah | 5,474 views

Alisa Gean is doing a great job getting a group together to share and collaborate neuro protocols. This would be a great place from members to share protocols, and open a discussion about the best [...]

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