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Neuroimaging
(from neurology point of view)
• Able to
– do on-call confidently
– intreprete important CT findings
What not to expect(s)
1. Lesion(s) (hyperdense/Hypodense)
2. Location
3. Age of lesion (acute/subcute/chronic)
4. + Cause, + complications
e.g
• Acute infact at the left internal capsule
• Acute communicating hydrocephalus
Pitfalls
Basic of CT Neuroimaging
Basics of CT Neuroimaging
• Orientation
• Region/Planes
• Windows
• Density
• Slice thickness
• Contrast enhancement
Basics of CT Neuroimaging: Orientation
Basics of CT Neuroimaging: Orientation
Basics of CT Neuroimaging:
SYMMETRY
MIRROR IMAGE
CT brain – 2 identical half
Basics of CT Neuroimaging: Planes
Basics of CT Neuroimaging: Planes
C
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Basics of CT Neuroimaging: Window
Basics of CT Neuroimaging: Density
• Hypodense
• Hyperdense
• Isodense
Basics of CT Neuroimaging: Density
HYPERDENSITIES
Left temporal
Most common: epidural haematoma
•Blood
•Calcification
•Exception to
the rule:
– Pineal gland
– Choroid plexus
HYPODENSITY
Most common:
•Infarction
•Fluid
– edema, infection,
tumour
•Hydrocephalus
•Air
Basics of CT Neuroimaging: Density
• Scanogram
– Plane used for
scanning
– Anatomic extent of
series of scans
NeuroAnatomy
Identification of structures
Lateral View of Brain
Ventricular System
Cross-sectional Anatomy
• Location:
– Cortical infarction
– Lacunar infarction
– Watershed / Borderzone infarction
• Timing:
– Hyperacute changes
– Early changes
– Established changes
• Complications:
– Haemorrhagic transformation
– Cerebral oedema
Cortical signs
• Aphasia
• Neglect (may be spatial, sensory, visual, auditory)
• Alteration of consciousness
• Visual field cut
Stroke: Cortical Infarction
• Sites (BITCP)
– Basal Ganglia (Caudate, Putamen)
– Internal capsule
– Thalamus
– Pons
– Cerebellum
• 3-15 mm in diameter
• Distal distribution of penetrating arteries
– Lenticulostriate
– Thalamoperforators
– Pontine perforators
– Recurrent artery of Heubner
• Fibrinoid degeneration
Lacunar Infarction
Penetrating arteries/
perforators
Lacunar Infarction
Borderzone Infarction
• Cortical Borderzone
• Internal Borderzone
• Pathology / Occlusion of
proximal vessels – ICA
Hyperacute changes
• Functional Outcome
• Risk of bleeding
Intracerebral
Haemorhage
• Typical hypertensive sites:
– Lenticulostriate vessels
• Basal Ganglia (Caudate, Putamen)
• Internal capsule
• Thalamus (a/w intravent. Ext)
• Pons
• Cerebellum
– Complications:
• Mass effect
• Obstructive hydrocephalus
Intracerebral
Haemorrhage
• Atypical sites!!!:
– Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
• 15% of ICH in pts > 60 yrs old
– AVMs
• Intracerebral haemorrhage or SAH
• Ix: CTA
Venous Infarction
• Biconvex • Crescent-shaped
• restricted by dural tethering at
the cranial sutures • They do not cross the midline
because of the meningeal
reflections
Subarachnoid haemorrhage
Subarachnoid haemorrhage
Hydrocephalus
•Communicating/Non-obstructive:
– Impaired reabsorption of CSF fulid in the absence of any CSF flow
obstruction
•Non-Communicating/Obstructive:
– CSF-flow obstruction
• Foramen of Monro
• Aqueduct of Sylvius
• Fourth Ventricle obstruction
Hydrocephalus
• Acute
- “Ballooned” ventricles with
periventricular low density “
halo”
- 3rd ventricle - rounded
• Chronic
– “Ballooned” ventricles
without periventricular halo
- 3rd ventricle – normal app
• Obstructive:
– Basal cisterns, sulci compressed /
obliterated
Hydrocephalus Hydrocephalus ex-vacuo
Tuberculous Meningitis
1.Meningeal enhancement:
3. Hydrocephalus
4. Tuberculomas
-Infrequently seen except in miliary TB
5. Vascular changes
-uniform narrowing of large segments
-small segmental narrowing
-irregular beaded appearance
-complete occlusion.
Contrast-enhanced CT
•showing multiple
tuberculomas in a patient
with tuberculous meningitis