Mamourian A. Brain CT essentials. https://www.medmastery.com As part of the Medmastery catalog of online medical tutorials, Dr. Mamourian has developed excellent lectures on brain CT essentials, which require approximately 3 hours of viewing time and can be split into small
Editor’s Choice This is a retrospective review of head and neck biopsies performed from January 2013 through December 2019. Clinical diagnosis and indication, patient demographics, mass location and size, biopsy needle type, technical approach, dose-length product, sedation details, complications, diagnostic
Fellows’ Journal Club Projection data from 83 patients undergoing unenhanced spiral head CT for suspected neurologic deficits were collected. A routine dose was obtained using 250 effective mAs and iterative reconstruction. Lower-dose configurations were reconstructed (25-effective mAs iterative reconstruction, 50-effective
Fellows’ Journal Club Cross-sectional CT images and clinical records of 47 patients (89 temporal bones) were evaluated for the presence, location, and imaging features of cavitary and noncavitaryotospongiotic plaques, as well as clinical symptoms and complications in those who underwent
Fellows’ Journal Club From the MR CLEAN data base, all baseline thin-slice CTA images of patients with acute ischemic stroke with intracranial large-vessel occlusion were retrospectively collected. The quantitative collateral score was calculated as the ratio of the vascular appearance
Fellows’ Journal Club All patients from the Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial of Endovascular Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke in the Netherlands (MR CLEAN) with an apparent ICA occlusion on CTA and available DSA images were included. Two independent observers classified
Forghani R, Kelly HR, eds. Mukherji SK, consulting ed. Neuroimaging Clinics of North America: Dual Energy CT: Applications in Head and Neck and Neurologic Imaging. Elsevier; 2017;27(3):371–546; $365.00 Dual energy CT (DECT) is probably the single most exciting innovation in CT
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors evaluated 23 distal anterior circulation occlusions during a 2-year period. Ten M1-segment occlusions and 10 cases without a vessel occlusion were also included. There was significant improvement in the sensitivity of detection of distal anterior
Kim CK, Zukotynski KA. SPECT and SPECT/CT: A Clinical Guide. Thieme; 2017; 218 pp; 250 ill; $99.99 While this 218-page softcover book is written for those primarily involved in nuclear medicine or for those in a general radiology practice who maintain some
Anderson MW, Fox MG, eds. Sectional Anatomy by MRI and CT. 4th ed. Elsevier; 2016; 624 pp; 1165 ill; $299.99 This 4th edition of Sectional Anatomy by MRI and CT, written by Drs. Anderson and Fox, is heavily weighted to the
