Open AccessMR Angiography of the Spine and Spinal Cord
Author(s) -
Pradip M. Pattany,
Efrat SarafLavi,
Brian C. Bowen
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
topics in magnetic resonance imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.547
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1536-1004
pISSN - 0899-3459
DOI - 10.1097/00002142-200312000-00003
Subject(s) - medicine , magnetic resonance angiography , digital subtraction angiography , radiology , maximum intensity projection , spinal cord , magnetic resonance imaging , arteriovenous fistula , angiography , nuclear medicine , psychiatry
This review has three objectives: 1) to describe spinal vascular anatomy, focusing on thoracolumbar intradural vessels detectable by both magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) and digital subtraction x-ray angiography (DSA), 2) to compare the MRA techniques that have been used to detect the major intradural vessels, and 3) to illustrate the clinical application of these MRA techniques, especially their efficacy in characterizing spinal dural arteriovenous fistulae (AVF).