TRANSVERSE-SECTION RADIONUCLIDE SCANNING IN CISTERNOGRAPHY

1 January 1976

journal article
research article

Vol. 17 (10) , 924-929

Abstract

By applying the technique of transverse section radionuclide scanning to cisternography, the structure and relationships of the basal cisterns and other subarachnoid spaces of the brain were visualized more clearly and with more detail than was possible with routine imaging techniques. The ability of this method to separate overlapping areas of radioactivity ensured improved definition of space occupying processes within the basal cisterns. In the evaluation by cisternography of patients with hydrocephalus and dementia, the transverse section images clearly separated various normal and abnormal patterns, whereas the routine cisternogram images were equivocal.

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