Advances in Neurology Vol 30

Diagnosis and Treatment of Brain Ischemia

CT Brain Blood Flow, Brain Hemodynamics,
C
arotid and Vertebral Artery Surgery

Editors: Andrew L. Carney / Evelyn M. Anderson

Raven Press 1981
401 pp ISBN 0-89004-529-1

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. The System Approach to Brain Blood Flow   1
            A. L. Carney and E. M. Anderson

Measurement Of Brain Blood Flow

2. Regional CBF measurement in Man using Xenon-133: 2 and 3-D methods 31
             
O. B. Paulson

3. PET for measurement of Regional CBF    41
           
Y. L. Yamamoto, C. Thompson, E. Meyer, and W. Feindel.

4. Physical Aspects of Dynamic Computed Tomography  55
         
   W. H. Berninger

5. Possible Directions in CT Scanner Design             63
           
R. W. Redington

6. A Method of Calculating Brain Blood Flow with a CT Dynamic Scanner             67
 
           L. Axel

7. Local CBF and Tissue Solubility measured by stable, Xenon-enhanced CT             73
           
J. S. Meyer, L. A. Hayman, S. Nakajima, T.Amano and P. Lauzon

8. Dynamic CT Study of the Brain                    85
            E. R. Heinz, P. DuBois, D. Osborne, B. Drayer, and W.Barren

9. Measure of Regional Brain Blow Circulation
            by CT Approach and Perspective               97

            I           Method
            II          Supratentorial
            III         Hindbrain Evaluation
            IV         Brain Hemodynamics (cf Chap 23)
            E. M. Anderson, A. L. Carney, G. D. Dobben, M.F. Mafee,
            G. Valvassori, and E. M. Burns.

Other Technical Considerations

10. Contrast Media, Blood Brain Barrier and Cerebral Blood Flow    141
            H. W. Fischer, D. Plewes and M. Violante.

11. Mechamisms of Contrast Enhancement in Cerebral Infarction: CT,   149
             Regional CBF, Fluoroscein Angiography and Pathological Study.
            T. Kawase, M. Mizukami, and G. Araki

12. Blood-Brain-Barrier: Morphology, Physiology & Effects of Contrast Media  159
            E. M. burns, G. D.Dobbens, T. W. Kruckeberg, and  P.K. Gaetano

13. Sheer Stress injury to Arterial Walls   167
            O. R. Blaumanis and P. A. Grady

14. Xray Imaging of the Blood Vessels to the Brain by Use of Magnification
             Stereoscopic Technique 175
            K. Doi, N. J. Patronas, E.E. Duda, E. Geldner, and K. Dietz

15. Vascular Anatomy and Pathology of the Head and Neck: Method
            of Corrosion Casting 191
            E. G. Hill, Jr, and W. M. McKinney


Clinical Approaches and Problems

16. Automated Physiological Profile Assessment of Effects of Altered                       201
             Cardiovascular Dynamics on Brain Blood Flow.
            R. H. Clauss, S. Babu, D,. Y. Tung and W. Redisch

17. Cardiac Evaluation Using Nuclear Medicine Procedures             217
            D. G. Pavel

18. Hypoglossal Carotid Entrapment Syndrome             223
            A. L. Carney and E. M. Anderson

19. Vertebral Artery Surgery: Historical Development, Basic Concepts              249
            of Brain Hemodynamics and Clinical Experience of 102 Cases
            A.    L. Carney
            (link to Text Vertebral Artery Surgery)

20. Tourniquet Subclavian Steal: Brain stem ischemia and cortical blindness
            - Clinical Significance and testing.
            A. L. Carney, E. M. Anderson
           (link to Cine)

21. Reliability of Central Vestibular Signs in Identification             291
            of Posterior Fossa Pathology
            Arvind Kumar

22. Blood-Brain-Barrier, Aging, Brain Blood Flow and Sleep             301
            E. M. Burns, M. B. T. Buschmann, t. W. Kruckeberg, P.K. Gaetano,
            and J. N. Meyer.

Brain Hemodynamics

23. Measurement of Regional Brain Blood Circulation by CT       307
            IV Brain Hemodynamics
            G. D. Dobben, E. M. Anderson, E. M. Burns,
            A. L. Carney, M. F. Mafee, and G. Valvassori

24. EEG in the Vascular Laboratory             325
            E. M. Anderson, A. L. Carney, and L. Page

25. Cerebral Hemodynamic Evaluation              335
            A. L. Carney, E. M. Anderson, and E. Burns

26. Carotid and Vertebral Artery Surgery, EEG Monitoring and the OR.  361
            E. M. Anderson, A. L. Carney, and L. Page

27. EEG and Carotid  Cutaneous Plethysmographic Monitoring             379
            During Carotid Reconstructive Surgery
            B.    Fuster, W. Macahado and C. Vechii

Subject Index             393

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