The quest for an image of brain

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Abstract
Each of the brain imaging techniques in common clinical use (skull radiography, midline ultrasonography, isotope scan, pneumoencephalography, angiography and computerized tomography [CT]) depicts some structural or functional characteristic of the brain. Each produces a correspondingly restricted concept of the status of the brain. CT, which defines the radiodensity of head tissues, had a fundamental advantage over the other techniques in that it defines with good resolution a characteristic of brain tissue itself (radiodensity), rather than visualizing some anatomic compartment other than brain parenchyma. It provides an explicit image of the brain analogous to gross sections of the brain seen at autopsy. CT has already substantially reshaped the practice of neurology wherever it has become available and may play as pivotal a role in clinical neurology as bone radiography does in orthopedics.

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