Vascular Imaging of the Central Nervous System (eBook)

Joana Ramalho MD Department of Neuroradiology, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central Portugal Mauricio Castillo MD, FACR Department of Neuroradiology. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill USA

List of Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I - Ultrasound Vascular Imaging (UVI)

1 Basic Principles of UVI
Ana Maria Braz and Jaime Leal Pamplona

2 Clinical applications of UVI
Ana Maria Braz, Maria Madalena Patricio and Joana Ramalho
Clinical Vignette

3 Novel Applications of UVI
Elsa Azevedo and Pedro Castro
Clinical Vignettes

Part 2 - Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA)

4 Basic Principles of CTA
Margareth Kimura and Mauricio Castillo

5 Intracranial CTA
Isabel R. Fragata and Joana Ramalho
Clinical Vignettes

6 Extra-cranial CTA
Tiago Baptista and João Lopes Reis
Clinical Vignettes

Part 3 - Magnetic Resonance Vascular imaging (MRV)

7 Basic principles of Time-of- Flight Magnetic Resonance Angiography (TOF MRA) and MRV (2D and 3D)
Hugo A. Ferreira and Joana Ramalho

8 Basic principles of Phase Contrast Magnetic Resonance Angiography (PC MRA) and MRV
Hugo A. Ferreira and Joana Ramalho

9 Time-of- Flight Magnetic Resonance Angiography (TOF MRA) and MRV: Clinical Applications
Mauricio Castillo, Juan Camilo Márquez and Francisco José Medina

10 Phase Contrast Magnetic Resonance Angiography (PC MRA) and flow analysis: Clinical Applications
Pedro Vilela

11 Contrast-enhanced MRA fundamentals and clinical applications
Khurram Javed and Mauricio Castillo
Clinical Vignette

12 Intracranial Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA), 1.5T versus 3T: advantages and disadvantages
Sara Safder, Benjamin Huang and Mauricio Castillo

13 Time-resolved techniques
Nuno Almeida, David Monteiro and Daniela Seixas
Clinical Vignette

Part 4 - Digital subtraction angiography (DSA)

14 DSA: Basic Principles
Mauricio Castillo

15 DSA in clinical practice
Yueh Z. Lee and Mauricio Castillo

16 Advanced and future DSA applications
Pedro Vilela
Clinical Vignette

Part 5 - Brain perfusion techniques: CT and MRI

17 CT perfusion, basic concepts and clinical applications
Joana Ramalho and Isabel R. Fragata
Clinical Vignette

18 Dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced MRI perfusion: basic principles and clinical applications
Francisco Medina Valencia, Mauricio Castillo and Juan Marquez

19 Arterial spin labeling (ASL) perfusion basic concepts, artifacts, and clinical applications
Debora Bertholdo and Mauricio Castillo

Part 6 - Plaque imaging

20 Imaging of Carotid Plaque
Sangam Kanekar
Clinical Vignette

Part 7 - Intravascular imaging

21 Basic concepts and clinical applications of Intravascular imaging
Hideki Kitahara, Peter J. Fitzgerald, Paul G. Yock, and Yasuhiro Honda

Part 8 - Pediatric vascular imaging

22 Pediatric vascular imaging techniques and clinical applications
Carla R. Conceição, Rita Lopes da Silva and Joana Ramalho
Clinical Vignette

Index