As the death of Walter Cronkite shocked the world today due to cerebral vasculaer disease, several radiographic examinations that can detect cerebral vascular disease has been in the lime light once again.
The following list below together with their overview of benefits are shown below:
Cerebral Angiography or Vertebral Angiogram or Carotid Angiogram: In this radiological diagnostic [...]
There is a new innovation in the world of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. It is specially designed for breast scans and has made the entire examination more enduring and comforting due to its compact, open design that has a diameter of only 70 centimeters, while the magnet bore is 10 centimeters wider as compared to most [...]
Respiratory Gating
- the simplest method of eliminating respiratory motion artifact is to suspend respiration entirely though breath hold
- respiratory gating and respiratory compensation were utilized because not all patients can hold their breath long enough to acquire adequate images
Respiratory Compensation
- also known as exorcist, ROPE and COPE
- performed through reordered phase encoding
- throughout the respiratory cycle, anterior chest wall motion [...]
