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Color Doppler Imaging of Basal Cerebral Arteries: Normal Reference Values and Clinical Applications

Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus, Städtisches Krankenhaus München-Bogenhausen, München, Germany

H.-H. Fuchs

Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus, Städtisches Krankenhaus München-Bogenhausen, München, Germany

K.A. Flügel

Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus, Städtisches Krankenhaus München-Bogenhausen, München, Germany

Transcranial color-coded duplex ultrasonography is a new diagnostic procedure allowing the visualization of major intracranial vessels. The purpose of this report is to describe this method and to evaluate its practical potential in the routine examination of basal cerebral arteries. The results from the examination of 96 patients are presented. By means of color coding of Doppler frequencies, the major intracranial vessels were identified by nature of their anatomic location with respect to the echogenic brainstem structures in all subjects. The average maximal systolic velocity was, in the middle cerebral artery, 108 ± 15 cm/s; in the anterior cerebral artery, 96 ±15; in the posterior cerebral artery, 76 ±16 ; and in the basilar artery, 59 ± 17 cm/s. The determination of the angle between the ultrasonic beam and the examined vessel improved the accuracy of flow velocity measure ments in comparison with conventional transcranial Doppler ultrasonography. The exact measurement of blood flow velocity in several segments of the visualized vessel proved helpful in the assessment of pathologic findings, especially in differentiation between a stenosis of the intracranial vessel and a vasospasm.

Angiology, Vol. 46, No. 10, 877-884 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/000331979504601002


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