Title: Diagnosis and treatment of brain ischemia :
Authors: Carney, Andrew L.; Anderson, Evelyn M.
Date: 1981
Publisher: Raven Press,
Physical description: xx, 401 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: R
Contents: System approach to brain blood flow -- Regional cerebral blood flow measurement in man using xenon-133: two- and three-dimensional methods -- Positron emission tomography for measurement of regional cerebral blood flow -- Physical aspects of dynamic computed tomography -- Possible directions in CT scanner design -- Method of calculating brain blood flow with a CT dynamic scanner -- Local cerebral blood flow and tissue solubility measured by stable, xenon-enhanced computerized tomography -- dynamic computed tomography study of the brain -- Measurement of regional brain blood circulation by computed tomography approach and perspective (I. Method. II. Supratentorial study. III. Hindbrain evalution. IV. Brain hemodynamics) -- Contrast media, the blood-brain barrier, and cerebral blood flow -- Mechanisms of contrast enhancement in cerebral infarction: computerized tomography, regional cerebral blood flow, fluorescein angiography, and pathological study -- Bloof-brain barrier: morphology, physiology, and effects of contrast media -- Shear stress injury to arterial walls -- X-ray imaging of the blood vessels to the brain by use of magnification stereoscopic technique Vascular anatomy and pathology of the head and neck: method of corrosion casting -- Automated physiological profile assessment of effects of altered cardiovascular dynamics on brain blood flow -- Cardiac evaluation using nuclear medicine procedures -- Hypoglossal carotid entrapment syndrome -- Vertebral artery surgery: historical development, basic concepts of brain hemodynamics, and clinical experience of 102 cases -- Tourniquet subclavian steal: brainstem ischemia and cortical blindness -- clinical significance and testing -- Reliability of central vestibular signs in identification of posterior fossa pathology -- Blood-brain barrier: aging, brain blood flow, and sleep -- Measurement of regional brain blood circulation by computed tomography IV brain hemodynamics -- EEG in the vascular laboratory -- Cerebral hemodynamic evaluation -- Carotid and vertebral artery surgery, EEG monitoring, and the operating room -- EEG and carotid cutaneous plethysmographic monitoring during carotid reconstructive surgery.
Notes: Tables.
Subject headings (LCSH): Brain--Blood-vessels--Radiography.; Brain--Blood-vessels--Tomography.; Cerebral ischemia--Diagnosis.; Regional blood flow--Measurement.; Tomography, Emission.; Vertebral artery--Surgery.