Fellows’ Journal Club The authors used CTA to assess arterial stenosis and occlusion in an ischemic stroke population arriving at a tertiary stroke center within 24 hours of symptom onset to obtain a comprehensive picture of occlusive disease pattern. Extra-
Editor’s Choice Ninety-one localized biopsies were obtained from 36 patients with glioblastoma. Signal intensities corresponding to these samples were derived from T1-postcontrast subtraction, T2-FLAIR, and ADC sequences by using an automated coregistration algorithm. Cell density was calculated for each specimen
Wilson JR, Tetreault LA, Kim J, et al. State of the Art in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: An Update on Current Clinical Evidence. Neurosurgery. 2017;80(3S):S33-S45. doi:10.1093/neuros/nyw083. Degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) is used to describe myelopathy resulting from degenerative pathology in the
Forsting M, Jansen O. MR Neuroimaging: Brain, Spine, Peripheral Nerves. Thieme; 2017; 600 pp; 1399 ill; $224.99 MR Neuroimaging: Brain, Spine, Peripheral Nerves by Michael Forsting and Olav Jansen is an English translation of the second German edition of MRT des
Fellows’ Journal Club The 2016 WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System includes “diffuse midline glioma with histone H3 K27M mutation” as a new diagnostic entity. This study of 33 patients with diffuse midline gliomas found histone H3
Editor’s Choice Five patients with brain arteriovenous malformations were studied with flat panel detector CT, DSC-MR imaging, and vessel-encoded pseudocontinuous arterial spin-labeling. Flat panel detector CT, which was originally thought to measure blood volume, correlated more closely with ASL-CBF and
Barr RG. Elastography: A Practical Approach. Thieme; 2016; 200 pp; 400 ill; $119.00 This comprehensive book encompasses the principles and techniques used in performing elastography under ultrasound guidance. The stiffness or softness of tissue measured by this innovative technique aids radiologists
Elster AD. Questions and answers in MRI. MRI Questions Web site. http://mriquestions.com/index.html. For radiologists who have devoted their lives and education to medical diagnosis, trying to grasp the advanced physics behind modern MR imaging is like a foray into another
Fellows’ Journal Club Ten C-arm conebeam CT perfusion datasets from 10 subjects with acute ischemic stroke acquired before endovascular treatment were retrospectively processed to generate time-resolved conebeam CTA. From time-resolved conebeam CTA, 2 experienced readers evaluated the clot burden and
Editor’s Choice Super selective pseudocontinuous arterial spin-labeling with a circular labeling spot enabling selective vessel labeling was added to routine imaging in a prospective pilot study in 50 patients with extracranial steno-occlusive disease. The detected vessel occlusions/stenoses and perfusion patterns
