Book contents
- Stories of Stroke
- Stories of Stroke
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Why This Book Needed to Be Written
- Preface
- Part I Early Recognition
- Part II Basic Knowledge, Sixteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
- Part III Modern Era, Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present
- Types of Stroke
- Some Key Physicians
- Imaging
- Chapter Thirty One Cerebral Angiography
- Chapter Thirty Two Computed Tomography
- Chapter Thirty Three Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Chapter Thirty Four Cerebrovascular Ultrasound
- Chapter Thirty Five Cerebral Blood Flow, Radionuclides, and Positron Emission Tomography
- Chapter Thirty Six Cardiac Imaging and Function
- Chapter Thirty Seven Stroke-Related Terms
- Chapter Thirty Eight Epidemiology and Risk Factors
- Chapter Thirty Nine Data Banks and Registries
- Chapter Forty Pediatric Stroke
- Care
- Treatment
- Part IV Stroke Literature, Organizations, and Patients
- Index
- References
Chapter Thirty Two - Computed Tomography
from Imaging
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 December 2022
- Stories of Stroke
- Stories of Stroke
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Why This Book Needed to Be Written
- Preface
- Part I Early Recognition
- Part II Basic Knowledge, Sixteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
- Part III Modern Era, Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present
- Types of Stroke
- Some Key Physicians
- Imaging
- Chapter Thirty One Cerebral Angiography
- Chapter Thirty Two Computed Tomography
- Chapter Thirty Three Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Chapter Thirty Four Cerebrovascular Ultrasound
- Chapter Thirty Five Cerebral Blood Flow, Radionuclides, and Positron Emission Tomography
- Chapter Thirty Six Cardiac Imaging and Function
- Chapter Thirty Seven Stroke-Related Terms
- Chapter Thirty Eight Epidemiology and Risk Factors
- Chapter Thirty Nine Data Banks and Registries
- Chapter Forty Pediatric Stroke
- Care
- Treatment
- Part IV Stroke Literature, Organizations, and Patients
- Index
- References
Summary
In December 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen announced that a form of radiation that he dubbed X-rays could penetrate solid substances and produce an outline of their interior contents. The use of X-rays became widespread and greatly improved physician’s diagnostic capabilities; doctors could look at broken bones, lungs, the heart, or the intestines. However, X-rays were very limited in showing the brain. The skull was radio dense and the fluid surrounding the brain made it appear as a homogenous density without any structural details [1]. The first X-ray image of the brain reported at the end of the nineteenth century was fraudulent. It was an image of a cat’s intestine filled with a mercuric compound, radiographed in a brain-shaped pan. The famous American inventor Thomas Edison attempted to image the brain. His fame was such that reporters and the general public waited outside his laboratory for two weeks in anticipation of the good news. His efforts were unrewarding [2].
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Stories of StrokeKey Individuals and the Evolution of Ideas, pp. 304 - 312Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022