INTRODUCTION Cerebral CT angiography (CTA) is an established method applied to both the detection and treatment planning of intracranial aneurysms. The aim of our study was to compare CTA and digital subtraction angiography (DSA) findings with the surgical results mainly in patients with acute SAH and to evaluate the clinical usefulness of CTA. MATERIALS AND METHODS During the last 2 years, 8...

289 Over the past decade, neurologists and neuroradiolo-gists have paid increasing attention to the role of the intracranial venous system in cerebrovascular diseases, such as dural sinus steno-occlusive diseases. The intra-cranial venous system has been evaluated traditionally during the venous phase of conventional catheter digital subtraction angiography (DSA). In fact, DSA is still the gold...

We propose a new primary protection method for Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA), in which secondary system uses frequency band assigned to system. Following DSA implementation plan Japan, we take care of practical scenario where system's transmission station (PTS) moves along predefined course or area, and corresponding reception (PRS) keeps its antenna boresight facing towards the moving PTS. For...

Verification of ECDSA signatures is considerably slower than generation of ECDSA signatures. This paper describes a method that can be used to accelerate verification of ECDSA signatures by more than 40% with virtually no added implementation complexity. The method can also be used to accelerate verification for other ElGamal-like signature algorithms, including DSA.

In this paper, an effective method is developed to extract coronary vessels from X-ray digital subtraction angiography (DSA). Unlike the traditional image subtraction technique, we used the independent component analysis (ICA) to separate the coronary vessels and backgrounds. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method can achieve better performance than the traditional & 2011 Elsevi...

The applications of digital subtraction angiography (DSA) in neurologic diagnosis have been evolving as clinical experience with this technology accumulates. Initial enthusiasm with the intravenous contrast material injections has been tempered by often equivocal results. Intravenous DSA (IV-DSA) is still an accurate screening technique for extracranial carotid atherosclerosis, comparable to du...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Collateral flow is associated with clinical outcome after acute ischemic stroke and may serve as a parameter for patient selection for intra-arterial therapy. In clinical trials, DSA and CTA are 2 imaging modalities commonly used to assess collateral flow. We aimed to determine the agreement between collateral flow assessment on CTA and DSA and their respective associatio...

BACKGROUND Previously, we have shown that magnesium supplemented potassium (DSA) cardioplegia and DSA containing diazoxide (DSA+DZX) significantly decrease apoptosis after ischemia. The mechanism for this enhanced cardioprotection was unknown, but we believed that alterations in signal transducers and activators of transcription (STATs) may play a role. To investigate this hypothesis, we examin...

Cerebrovascular disease is among the leading causes of death in western industrial nations. 3D rotational angiography delivers indispensable information on vessel morphology and pathology. Physicians make use of this to analyze vessel geometry in detail, i.e. vessel diameters, location and size of aneurysms, to come up with a clinical decision. 3D segmentation is a crucial step in this pipeline...