Anosmia following head trauma is relatively common and in many cases is persistent and irreversible. The ability to objectively measure such a decline in smelling, for both clinical and medicolegal goals, is very important. The aim of this study was to find results of brain Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) in anosmic subjects after closed head trauma. This case-control cross s...

OBJECTIVE The present study was carried out to evaluate cerebral perfusion in different types of cerebral palsy (CP) patients. For those patients who underwent hyperbaric oxygen therapy, brain perfusion before and after the therapy was compared. METHODS A total of 11 CP patients were enrolled in this study, of which 4 patients underwent oxygen therapy. Before oxygen therapy and at the end of ...

objective(s): a novel iq-specttm method has become widely used in clinical studies. the present study compares the quality of myocardial perfusion images (mpi) acquired using the iq-specttm (iq-mode),conventional (180° apart: c-mode) and l-mode (90° apart: l-mode) systems. we assessed spatial resolution, image reproducibility and quantifiability using various physical phantoms. materials and me...

PURPOSE Neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinoses (NCL) are among the progressive encephalopathies of childhood that are inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. In this study we specifically aimed to investigate any white-matter changes in the carriers (parents) and the healthy siblings of individuals with neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis disease and whether we may be able to predict the occurrence of a...

Most symptoms and signs associated with a carotid cavernous fistula (CCF) are thought to be related to regurgitation of flow into cortical veins and to venous congestion. Arteriovenous shunting and secondary perfusion insufficiency is regarded as less important in causing symptoms. We describe a 27-yr-old male patient who had improvement of neurologic symptoms and signs after detachable balloon...

Simple partial status epilepticus occurs more rarely than other forms of status epilepticus. This report describes two patients with temporal lobe epilepsy who experienced simple partial status epilepticus. Results show that basal ganglia and the mid-brain are activated during simple partial status epilepticus by blood perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and subtraction...