Open AccessAssessment of Thrombus in Acute Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion Using Thin-Slice Nonenhanced Computed Tomography Reconstructions
Author(s) -
Christian Heiner Riedel,
Ulf Jensen,
Axel Rohr,
Marc Tietke,
Karsten Alfke,
Stephan Ulmer,
Olav Jansen
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.110.580662
Subject(s) - medicine , computed tomography , thrombus , radiology , occlusion , middle cerebral artery , tomography , nuclear medicine , ischemia , surgery , cardiology
We sought to evaluate how accurately length and volume of thrombotic clots occluding cerebral arteries of patients with acute ischemic stroke can be assessed from nonenhanced CT (NECT) scans reconstructed with different slice widths.
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