Kato Y, Sano H, Katada K, Ogura Y, Zhou J, Kanaoka N, Kanno T
Department of Neurosurgery, Fujita Health University.
Title
Clinical usefulness of 3-D CT endoscopic imaging of cerebral aneurysms.[Article in Japanese]
Source
No Shinkei Geka 1995 Aug;23(8):685-691
Abstract
Usefulness of endoscopic imaging of cerebral aneurysms is presented. 3D-luminal
images were obtained using a new processing technique which extracts CT
numbers in the boundary region between the vessel wall and contrast media filling
in the vascular lumen. Clinical application of this technique to complicated large
cerebral aneurysms showed that, with this 3D-CT endoscopic images and MRA,
anatomical details of cerebral aneurysms such as the orifice of the aneurysm,
intraluminal thrombus, and calcification of the wall could be clearly demonstrated.
We operated on two large, complicated aneurysms after obtaining 3D-CT
endoscopy images of the aneurysms. Such information was found to be very
useful when operating on difficult and complicated cerebral aneurysms.