Noninvasive Radiologic Diagnosis of Extracranial Vascular Pathologies

Fridon Todua, MD, PhD, has been the founder and Scientific Supervisor of the Institute of Clinical Medicine ,Tbilisi, Georgia since 1991. He has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Chivalrous Order of the Belgian Royal Court (1999), the Albert Schweitzer Medal "For humanism and service to the people" (2003), and the Order of Presidential Excellency (2010). He became Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences in 1991 and Academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Art, a member of the Russian Academy of Medical and Technical Sciences as well. Prof. Todua has served as a President of the Georgian Association of Radiology and the Georgian Association of Telemedicine. He was elected as an honorary professor at Graz Medical University in 2010, Baku State University in 2012, and the Georgian David Agmashenebeli University in 2012, etc. He is the author of more 600 scientific publications and nine monographs. Dudana Gachechiladze, MD, PhD, is Scientific Supervisor of the Ultrasound imaging Department of the Institute of Clinical Medicine, Tbilisi, Georgia. She is a Professor of Radiology in the department of Diagnostic Medicine of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University , The head of programme of the Medical education of Caucasus University. Member of the National Medical Academy of Georgia. Dr. Gachechiladze is Vice-Editor of the Georgian Journal of Radiology. She is a member of the European Society of Radiology Education Committee and a number of other associations and societies as well. She is the author of more than 150 scientific publications, including two monographs.

Introduction.- Part   I - Vascular anatomy and Basic hemodynamics.- 1. Anatomy of cerebral circulation system.- 2. Basic Principles of hemodynamics.- Part II - Basic principles of non-invasive vascular diagnostic.- 1. Basic principles of  Ultrasound diagnostics.- 2. Principles of extracranial arterial and venous ultrasound examination.- 3. Principles of Computed Tomography  and Computed  Tomography angiography.- 4. Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging  and Magnetic Resonance angiography.- 5. CTA and MRA- Postprocessing and Data Analysis.- Part III - Cerebral ischemia.- 1. Stroke ( Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Risk-factors,  Types,  Imaging).- 2. CT / MRI  perfusion in Acute   stroke-94.- Part IV - Pathologies of extracranial vessels.- 1. Atherostenosis and thrombosis of extracranial vessels.- 2. Common Carotid Artery Intima-media layer changes.- 3. Structural characteristics of atherosclerotic plaque.- 4. Surgical treatment end endovascular revascularization  of  carotid  stenosis.- 5. Deformation of extracranial arteries.- 6. Takayasu`s arteritis.- 7. Subclavian steal effect.- 8. Dissection of extracranial arteries.- 9. Aneurism and pseudoaneurism of extracranial arteries.- 10. Congenital variations of extracranial arteries.- 11. Pathological findings in the jugular veins.- Part V - Methods of non-invasive functional examination of cerebrovascular system.- 1. Detection of cerebral microemboli.- 2. Assessment of cerebrovascular reactivity