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- Cough-Associated Changes in CSF Flow in Chiari I Malformation Evaluated by Real-Time MRI
Eight symptomatic patients with Chiari I malformation and 6 healthy participants were studied by using MR pencil beam imaging with a temporal resolution of 50 ms. Patients and healthy participants were scanned in real-time during resting, coughing, and postcoughing periods. CSF flow waveform amplitude, CSF stroke volume, and CSF flow rate were compared between the patients and the control population. Real-time MR imaging noninvasively showed a transient decrease in CSF flow across the foramen magnum after coughing in symptomatic patients with Chiari I malformation.
- The Added Value of Volume-of-Interest C-Arm CT Imaging during Endovascular Treatment of Intracranial Aneurysms
VOI C-arm CT images were obtained in 28 patients undergoing endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms and the VOI images were reconstructed by using a novel prototype reconstruction algorithm to minimize truncation artifacts from double collimation. The reconstruction accuracy of VOI C-arm CT images was assessed quantitatively by comparing them with the full-head noncollimated images. Quality of VOI C-arm CT images was comparable with that of the standard Feldkamp, Davis, and Kress reconstruction of noncollimated C-arm CT images. The authors conclude that VOI imaging allows multiple 3D C-arm CT acquisitions and provides information related to device expansion, parent wall apposition, and neck coverage during the procedure, with very low additional radiation exposure to the patient.