Charlson Index comorbidity adjustment for ischemic stroke outcome studies

LB Goldstein, GP Samsa, DB Matchar, RD Horner - Stroke, 2004 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose—The Charlson Index is commonly used in outcome studies to
adjust for patient comorbid conditions, but has not been specifically validated for use in …

Evolution of brain imaging instrumentation

T Abraham, J Feng - Seminars in nuclear medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
Computed tomography (CT) and static magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are now the most
common imaging modalities used for anatomic evaluation of pathologic processes affecting …

Brain SPECT in clinical practice. Part I: perfusion

AM Catafau - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2001 - Soc Nuclear Med
Brain perfusion SPECT is a functional neuroimaging technique that allows noninvasive
study of physiologic and physiopathologic events in the human brain. With the appropriate …

[HTML][HTML] Studies of central nervous system disorders with single photon emission computed tomography and positron emission tomography: evolution over the past 2 …

A Alavi, LJ Hirsch - Seminars in nuclear medicine, 1991 - Elsevier
Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) was introduced in the 1960s to
detect breakdowns in the blood-brain barrier and was replaced by x-ray computed …

Reperfusion after thrombolytic therapy in ischemic stroke measured by single-photon emission computed tomography.

AE Baird, GA Donnan, MC Austin, GJ Fitt, SM Davis… - Stroke, 1994 - Am Heart Assoc
We used 99mTc-hexamethylpropyleneamine oxime single-photon emission computed
tomography (SPECT) to study cerebral perfusion in patients treated with streptokinase for …

[PDF][PDF] Crossed-cerebellar diaschisis in cerebral infarction: technetium-99m-HMPAO SPECT and MRI

SE Kim, CW Choi, BW Yoon, JK Chung… - Journal of Nuclear …, 1997 - Soc Nuclear Med
Results: A CCD was observed in 12 of the 26 patients (46%) with cerebral infarction. There
was no significant correlation between SVD and A% cb|, or MVD and A% cb,| in the patients …

99mTc-HMPAO SPECT of the brain in mild to moderate traumatic brain injury patients: Compared with CT—a prospective study

K Nedd, G Sfakianakis, W Ganz, B Uricchio… - Brain Injury, 1993 - Taylor & Francis
Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with Technetium-99m hexamethyl
propylenamine oxime (Tc-99m-HMPAO) was used in 20 patients with mild to moderate …

Streptokinase in acute stroke: effect on reperfusion and recanalization

M Yasaka, GJ O'keefe, BR Chambers, SM Davis… - Neurology, 1998 - AAN Enterprises
The Australian Streptokinase Trial was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial,
in which streptokinase (SK, 1.5 million IU IV) was given within 4 hours of stroke onset. In a …

Regional cerebral blood flow and magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging findings in diaschisis from stroke

WJ Chu, GF Mason, JW Pan, HP Hetherington, HG Liu… - Stroke, 2002 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose—This study evaluated blood flow and metabolite changes in
cerebral diaschisis from internal capsule region infarction using regional cerebral blood flow …

Correlative image registration

DA Weber, M Ivanovic - Seminars in nuclear medicine, 1994 - Elsevier
Image registration in nuclear medicine and radiology refers to the spatial matching or
merging of two or more images from the same or different imaging modalities. The …