Introduction of color-coded duplex sonography has further increased diagnostic confidence
of neurovascular ultrasound. Thus, reliable and noninvasive preoperative assessment of …

Rapid progress in noninvasive ultrasound techniques has resulted in a wide variety of
clinical applications for assessment of both extracranial and intracranial arterial diseases …

Successful implementation of systemic reperfusion therapy for acute ischemic stroke and the
need to implement treatment quickly to improve outcomes have led clinicians to look for …

A variety of noninvasive ultrasound techniques have been developed during recent years for
the detection of both extracranial and intracranial arterial diseases [51, 59]. Continuous …

Sonography is recognized as the best screening tool for detecting carotid artery stenosis.
Nevertheless, cervical ultrasound examination is subject to practical limitations in some rare …

History of diagnostic ultrasound begins with the Austrian physicist Christian Doppler, who
described in 1842 the Doppler principle. 40 years later, the Curies discovered the reverse …

Ultrasound provides a unique diagnostic perspective in cerebrovascular disorders, with
extremely high temporal resolution and excellent spatial display of extracranial arteries …

Neurovascular ultrasound increases the reliability of assessing occlusive cerebrovascular
disease, including the detection of instable carotid plaques, the delineation of cerebral …

The prelims comprise: Cerebrovascular ultrasonography allows a noninvasive bedside
assessment of the cervical and intracranial vessels, providing structural and hemodynamic …

Advancements in technology have brought noninvasive diagnosis of cerebrovascular
disease to a high level of accuracy in a relatively short period of time. Conventional duplex …