Although CT has developed as a morphologic technique, its anatomic specificity may be
used to map physiologic events. Using intravenously infused iodinated contrast media, CT …

Computed tomography can provide anatomic and functional information about the brain.
The conventional CT of the brain can be coupled with a cerebral blood flow examination …

Xenon and iodine enhanced dynamic computerized tomography (CT) have been used
experimentally to obtain both qualitative and quantitative information on local cerebral blood …

Enhancement of the brain substance for CT evaluation using inhaled Xenon is confirmed.
This technique was applied to the study of the normal and the embolized adolescent …

Traditionally, investigation of the nervous system has been primarily a clinical matter. The
great era of clinical assessment of patients with neurological disease in the first half of the …

Since Winkler in 1977 determined that the radiodensity of xenon could be used for image
enhancement during transmission computerized tomography 44, a number of groups have …

The stable xenon CT method of measuring cerebral blood flow has been investigated in
research studies for over 10 years. Recently, it has been gaining clinical acceptance …

PURPOSE To compare an ultrafast CT method for estimating regional cerebral blood flow
with a more commonly used xenon-enhanced CT method. METHODS Xenon CT and …

The demonstration of absent blood flow to the brain is often used as a confirmatory test of
brain death. Traditionally, cerebral angiography and dynamic radionuclide brain scanning …

The dynamic computed tomography study of the brain consists of the rapid intravenous
injection of 49 ml of radiographic contrast material in 7 sec followed by serial 5-sec CT scans …