Diagnostic accuracy of noncontrast CT imaging markers in cerebral venous thrombosis.

Pieter-Jan BuyckSusanna M ZuurbierCarlos Garcia EsperonMiguel A BarbozaPaolo CostaIrene EscuderoDimitri RenardRobin LemmensNicole HintereggerFranz FazekasJordi Jimenez CondeEva Giralt-SteinhauerSini HiltunenAntonio ArauzAlessandro PezziniJoan MontanerJukka PutaalaChristian WeimarLeonid ChurilovThomas GattringerHamed AsadiTurgut TatlisumakJonathan M CoutinhoPhilippe DemaerelVincent N Thijs

Published in: Neurology (2019)

This study provides Class II evidence that visual analysis of plain CT with or without attenuation measurements has high specificity but only moderate sensitivity for CVT.

Keyphrases

dual energy
image quality
computed tomography
contrast enhanced
high resolution
positron emission tomography
magnetic resonance
brain injury
fluorescence imaging
cerebral ischemia
cerebral blood flow