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19 - Intracranial cerebral artery stenosis and occlusion

from (iii) - Intracranial cerebrovascular applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2014

Rolf W. Baumgartner
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Heinrich P. Mattle
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Michael G. Hennerici
Affiliation:
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
Stephen P. Meairs
Affiliation:
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
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Summary

History of transcranial ultrasound

Leksell (1954) introduced echoencephalography for the evaluation of the position of midline and paramedian structures. Three decades later Aaslid et al. (1982) added transcranial Doppler sonography (TCD) for the study of cerebral hemodynamics. In the late 1980s transcranial Bmode sonography (Berland et al., 1988; Furuhata, 1989; Schönig et al., 1989) and frequency-based transcranial colour-coded duplex sonography (TCCS) (Bogdahn et al., 1990) were introduced. The most recent developments are power-based (Baumgartner et al., 1996; Griewing et al., 1996), contrast-enhanced (Baumgartner et al., 1997; Bogdahn et al., 1993; Görtler et al., 1998; Nabavi et al., 1998; Otis et al., 1995), and three-dimensional (Delcker & Turowski, 1997a, b; Delcker et al., 1997) TCCS.

Principles of transcranial ultrasound

Transcranial ultrasound studies are performed with low frequency transducers. The ultrasound probes in TCD devices emit with 2 or 1 MHz, whereas TCCS machines use frequencies up to 3.6 MHz. Both TCD and TCCS provide the measurement of velocities in defined depths and sample volumes. Colour Doppler imaging relies in the frequency based mode on the mean frequency shift of the Doppler signal, which reflects the mean velocity of moving particles. Power-based colour Doppler imaging visualizes the integrated power of the Doppler signal, which is related to the number of moving particles (Bude et al., 1994). Compared to the power-based technique frequency-based TCCS has several advantages, since it detects direction and velocity of flow, and produces less tissue motion artefacts.

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Cerebrovascular Ultrasound
Theory, Practice and Future Developments
, pp. 271 - 279
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2001

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